Vertical Growth of a Young Back Barrier Salt Marsh, Skallingen, SW Denmark

• Main Authors: Nielsen, Niels, Nielsen, Jorgen
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Journal of Coastal Research 2013
• Subjects: Geoscience; Geography; Ocean Science; Oceanography; Marine Science; Coastal Geology; Earth and Environmental Sciences; Salt marsh; rate of sediment accretion; sea-level rise; storm surge frequency; Danish Wadden Sea; Skallingen; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://journals.fcla.edu/jcr/article/view/81273

The spatial and temporal distribution of the sediment accretion upon a young (less than 100 years old), predominantly inorganic back barrier salt marsh has been studied based on leveling in 1973, a re-survey in 1998 and observations from 1931 to 1954 of the same area. The surface of the back barrier...