- Title
- South African estuaries in the Anthropocene
- Creator
- Perissinotto, Renzo
- Subject
- Estuaries -- South Africa
- Subject
- Geology, Stratigraphic -- Anthropocene
- Subject
- f-sa
- Type
- text
- Type
- Lectures
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/20977
- Identifier
- vital:29424
- Description
- In the new geological epoch of total human dominance of the planet, already widely referred to as the “Anthropocene”, estuaries are among the most vulnerable ecosystems to the changes that man’s activities have imposed on the coastal zone. For the non-specialist, an estuary is a “semi-enclosed coastal body of water, which has a permanent or temporary connection with the open sea, and within which sea water is diluted with fresh water from land drainage”.
- Format
- 13 pages
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Science
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Inaugural lectures
- Relation
- Inaugural lectures 2014
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela University
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