Historic Sediment Accretion Rates in a Louisiana Coastal Marsh and Implications for Sustainability
Deltaic marshes of the Mississippi River in Louisiana disappeared at a rate of 88 km2 annually from 1956 to 2000 (Barras et al. 2003) as marshes become inundated by sea water. Marsh surface elevation varies spatially and temporally due to fluvial sediment deposition, resuspension, erosion, compacti...
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LSU
2009
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| Online Access: | http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-01222009-121258/ |