Found 17 datasets matching "Vertical Accretion Rates".
-
This dataset includes measured sediment characteristics and vertical accretion rates of backbarrier marshes along the Georgia Bight. Data include bulk density (g/cm^3), water content (%), organic...
Search relevance: 203.01 | Views last month: 0 -
This dataset holds measurements of Cesium-137 (137Cs) activity sampled from sites in the Atchafalaya and Terrebonne Basins on the southern coast of Louisiana, USA. Sediment cores were taken to...
Search relevance: 80.77 | Views last month: 0 -
A study was conducted to assess the vertical accretion of sediment in the Mud Lake impoundment of Sand Lake National Wildlife Refuge, located in Brown County, South Dakota. Sediment cores were...
Search relevance: 80.03 | Views last month: 0 -
The accretion history of fringing salt marshes in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, was reconstructed from sediment cores. Age models, based on excess lead-210 and cesium-137 radionuclide analysis,...
Search relevance: 79.27 | Views last month: 0 -
The accretion history of fringing microtidal salt marshes located on the south shore of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, was reconstructed from sediment cores collected in low and high marsh vegetation...
Search relevance: 72.68 | Views last month: 0 -
This data set represents vertical accretion data from feldspar marker horizons in Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve and Ten Thousand Islands National Wildlife Refuge collected...
Search relevance: 69.98 | Views last month: 2 -
This dataset contains vertical profiles of soil bulk density, percent organic matter, percent total carbon and cesium-137 activity from the surface down to 50-60 cm deep at 25 marsh locations...
Search relevance: 69.31 | Views last month: 0 -
The San Juan Bay Estuary, Puerto Rico, contains mangrove forests that store significant amounts of organic carbon in soils and biomass. There is a strong urbanization gradient across the estuary,...
Search relevance: 67.42 | Views last month: 0 -
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita made landfall in 2005, subjecting the coastal marsh communities of Louisiana to various degrees of exposure. We collected data after the storms at 30 sites within fresh...
Search relevance: 66.66 | Views last month: 0 -
This dataset provides information about the resilience of tidal wetlands to sea-level rise under three scenarios of global change. With rising seas, regularly inundated tidal wetlands may persist...
Search relevance: 66.41 | Views last month: 0 -
Laboratory experiments reveal calcification rates of crustose coralline algae are strongly correlated to seawater aragonite saturation state. Predictions of reduced coral calcification rates, due...
Search relevance: 60.83 | Views last month: 0 -
Coastal wetlands in Tampa Bay, Florida, are important ecosystems that deliver a variety of ecosystem services. Key to ecosystem functioning is wetland response to sea-level rise through...
Search relevance: 56.78 | Views last month: 0 -
Nineteen sediment cores were collected from five salt marshes on the northern shore of Cape Cod where previously restricted tidal exchange was restored to part of the marshes. Cores were collected...
Search relevance: 45.62 | Views last month: 0 -
Coastal wetlands are major global carbon sinks; however, quantification of carbon flux can be difficult in these heterogeneous and dynamic ecosystems. To characterize spatial and temporal...
Search relevance: 43.45 | Views last month: 0 -
As sea levels rise, wetlands exposed to oceanic water can adapt to changing conditions through vertical development (i.e., soil surface elevation gains via biophysical feedbacks) and horizontal...
Search relevance: 40.85 | Views last month: 0 -
The Herring River estuary in Wellfleet, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, has been tidally restricted for more than a century by a dike constructed near the mouth of the river. Upstream from the dike, the...
Search relevance: 39.86 | Views last month: 1 -
This is a MD iMAP hosted service layer. Find more information at http://imap.maryland.gov. In 2000 - the Maryland Geological Survey (MGS) was awarded a Coastal Zone Management grant to complete...
Search relevance: 33.10 | Views last month: 1
