Sediment Deposition and Accretion in a Mid-Atlantic (U.S.A.) Tidal Freshwater Marsh
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Virginia Institute of Marine Science, School of Marine Science, College of William and Mary, Gloucester Point VA 23062, U.S.A. Present address: Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, P.O. Box 28, Edgewater MD 21037, U.S.A. College of William and Mary, Department of Geology, Williamsburg VA 23187, U.S.A. Present address: University of California at Davis, Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, Davis CA 95616, U.S.A.
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