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Primary Causes of Wetland Loss at Madison Bay, Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana

by Robert A. Morton, Ginger Tiling, and Nicholas F. Ferina

USGS Open File Report 03-60

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"Primary Causes of Wetland Loss at Madison Bay, Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana" is a 48-page analysis of water depths, marsh surface elevations, and correlative stratigraphic markers in 10 sediment cores from Madison Bay in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana. The analysis provides a basis for estimating the magnitudes and rates of marsh erosion and land subsidence at one of the best known wetland loss hotspots in coastal Louisiana.

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