Tidal Datum Planes Circumscribing Salt Marshes

Author: Provost, Maurice W.

Source: Bulletin of Marine Science, Volume 26, Number 4, October 1976 , pp. 558-563(6)

Publisher: University of Miami - Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science

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Abstract:

A mean annual high water is described as the only tidal datum whose line on shore would circumscribe entire salt marshes. All other established or proposed high water datum lines enclose a fraction of the marsh proportional to tide amplitude and thus exhibit geographical biases.

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Document Type: Research article

Publication date: 1976-10-01

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