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Coastal regions, and particularly the transition zone between fresh and salt water called estuaries, continue to attract the interest of scientists and governments. In an age of growing awareness of interactive processes affecting the entire planet, those occuring at the frontier between the extensively manipulated continental home of the human race and the once-pristine world ocean merit such continued attention. Estuaries, however, are particularly complicated environments, with cycles of motion that may actually never be repetitive, and each estuary is somewhat different from its neighbours.
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El-Sabh, M.I., Silverberg, N. (1990). The St. Lawrence Estuary: Introduction. In: El-Sabh, M.I., Silverberg, N. (eds) Oceanography of a Large-Scale Estuarine System. Coastal and Estuarine Studies, vol 39. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7534-4_1
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