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Salt-Marsh Foraminiferal Distributions from Mainland Northern Georgia, USA: An Assessment of Their Viability for Sea-Level Studies Cover

Salt-Marsh Foraminiferal Distributions from Mainland Northern Georgia, USA: An Assessment of Their Viability for Sea-Level Studies

Open Quaternary
Volume 6 (2020): Issue 1
By: Huixian Chen,  Timothy A. Shaw,  Jianhua Wang,  Simon Engelhart,  Daria Nikitina,  Jessica E. Pilarczyk,  Jennifer Walker,  Ane García-Artola and  Benjamin P. Horton  
Open Access
|Mar 2020

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/oq.80 | Journal eISSN: 2055-298X
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Language: English
Submitted on: Feb 28, 2020
Accepted on: Feb 28, 2020
Published on: Mar 26, 2020
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Keywords:
intertidal foraminifera,
infaunal,
taphonomy,
Georgia,
relative sea level,
multivariate analysis

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