Coastal Louisiana in crisis: Subsidence or sea level rise?

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• Publication year

  2006

• Venue

  Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union

• Publication date

  2006-11-07

• Fields of study

  Geography, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1029/2006EO450001
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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