Recent rates of sedimentation on irregularly flooded Boreal Baltic coastal wetlands: Responses to recent changes in sea level

Geomorphology

Volumn 217, Issue , 2014, Pages 61-72

  Ward, Raymond D ^a   Teasdale, Phillip A ^a   Burnside, Niall G ^a   Joyce, Christopher B ^a   Sepp, Kalev ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

^b ESTONIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Baltic coastal wetlands; Sea level rise; Sedimentation; Storm surges

Indexed keywords

CESIUM ISOTOPE; COASTAL EVOLUTION; COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; COASTAL WETLAND; FLOODING; LEAD ISOTOPE; PROGRADATION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENTATION RATE; STORM SURGE; TOPOGRAPHY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; ESTONIA;

EID: 84899796277     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2014.03.045     Document Type: Article

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