Coastal Environments of Northeastern Massachusetts and New Hampshire: Field Trip Guidebook, May 9-11, 1969 |
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accretion alterniflora peat beach face beach profile bedforms berm black peat Castle Neck clam flat coarse cores Crane Beach crossbedding crossbeds deposits Distance From Last drumlin dune ebb currents ebb shield ebb spit ebb-oriented end of Plum erosion Essex Bay feet feldspar feldspathic flood currents flow regime formed grain grain-size GRAPHIC MEAN guidebook Hampton Beach high salt marsh Holocene inclusive graphic inlet Intersection kurtosis landward linear ripples located low tide low-tide terrace main channel Massachusetts McIntire and Morgan mean low water megaripples Merrimack River estuary migration mud flats mussel neap offshore bar orientation Parker River estuary period photograph planar Pleistocene Plum Island River Plum Island Sound point bar post-storm Route 1A Rowley River salt marsh peat sand bodies sand flat sea level seaward sediment skewed slip face Spartina alterniflora spring tides station Stop surface tidal channels western fine-grained facies wind Woodbridge Island