Sediment Accretion in Tidal Freshwater Forests and Oligohaline Marshes of the Waccamaw and Savannah Rivers, USA

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1107-1119

  Ensign, Scott H ^a   Hupp, Cliff R ^a   Noe, Gregory B ^a   Krauss, Ken W ^b   Stagg, Camille L ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL WETLANDS RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Coastal geomorphology; River geomorphology; Sea level rise; Sediment accretion; Tidal freshwater forested wetland; Tidal freshwater marsh; Tidal freshwater wetland; Tidal swamp

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; COASTAL SEDIMENT; FELDSPAR; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SEDIMENTATION; SWAMP;

IOWA; SAVANNAH RIVER; TURKEY CREEK; UNITED STATES; WACCAMAW RIVER;

EID: 84905581106     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12237-013-9744-7     Document Type: Article

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