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The Salt Marsh Mystery
October 31, 2012 | National Science Foundation

“Salt marshes have been disintegrating and dying over the past two decades along the U.S. Eastern Seaboard and other highly developed coastlines without anyone fully understanding why.”


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Great Salt Lake Water Chemistry
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Subsidence Above the Holbrook Salt
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