Flax Pond: an estuarine marsh
Technical Report
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OSTI ID:4392400
Flax Pond is a 50-hectare estuarine marsh on the north shore of Long Island with a single channel connection to Long Island Sound. It is the site of intensive research focused primarily on the exchange of nutrients with the Sound. At high tide the area of water is ~574,000 mi; volume is about 880,000 m/sup 2/. Salinity averages 260/00. The mean tidal range is about 1.8 meters. The tidal pattern varies little over the year; the duration of ebb tide is usually two hours longer than that of the flood due to a sill in the entrance of the channel. Principal vegetation is Spartina alterniflora. Details of the pond's structure and function are rapidly being accumulated to the point where this estuarine marsh is one of the most thoroughly known such sites in the world. This report offers some of the background data available now to students of Flax Pond. (auth)
- Research Organization:
- Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, N.Y. (USA)
- NSA Number:
- NSA-29-004710
- OSTI ID:
- 4392400
- Report Number(s):
- BNL--50397
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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