Gross algal primary productivity and edaphic community respiration 

 estimates were made for five areas of Canary Creek tidal marsh near Lewes, 

 Delaware, immediately behind Cape Henlopen. 



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 ♦Gallagher, J. L., and F. C. Daiber. 1974. Primary production of edaphic 

 algal communities in a Delaware salt marsh. Limnology and Oceanography 

 19:390-393. 



Gross primary production of edaphic algae was estimated for five areas 

 in a high salinity tidal marsh near Lewes, Delaware, immediately behind 

 Cape Henlopen. 



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Kraft, J. C. 1968. Coastal sedimentary environments, Lewes-Rehoboth Beach, 

 Delaware. Guidebook, the annual field trip of the Northeastern Section 

 of the Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, September 

 1968. University of Delaware, Department of Geology. 32 pp. 



This is a study of the tectonic and stratigraphic framework of the 

 sediments that make up the Atlantic coastal geosyncline. Environments 

 include restricted bays; inlets from the open marine with tidal deltas, 

 baymouth bars and dunes; nearshore inner neritic; marshes and tidal creeks; 

 spit-dune-marsh complex of Cape Helopen; and beaches and marsh fringes of 

 Delaware Bay. 



Fenwich Island North 



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 *de Gast, R. 1975. Western wind/eastern shore. The Johns Hopkins University 

 Press, Baltimore, Maryland. 176 pp. 



T his book is a first-person account of travels along the Eastern Shore. 

 Included are photographs and text for Rehoboth Beach and Fenwick Island, 

 Delaware; Assateague Island, Maryland; and the following islands off 

 Virginia--Assawoman, Metompkin, Cedar, Parramore, Hog, Cobb, Smith, and 

 Fisherman 's. 



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