TABLE OF CONTENTS 



Frontispiece, Photograph of Participants iii 



Editorial Comments and Acknowledgments iv 



List of Figures vii 



List of Attendants and Contributors viii 



Introduction 1 



Part I. Salt Marshes as Land Forms. 



The Physiography of Salt Marshes. 



J. A. Steers . 3 



Origin of Dutch Tidal Flat Formations. 



L, M. J.U, van Straaten 9 



Drainage Patterns in Salt Marshes. 



R. A. Ragotzkie 22 



Alluvial Morphology of Louisiana Salt Marshes. 



R. J. Russell 29 



Coastal Morphological Changes Resulting from 



Hurricane "Audrey", 



J. P. Morgan 32 



The Barnstable Marsh. 



A. C. Redfield 37 



The Sedimentary Environment of Newport Bay. 



R. E. Stevenson 43 



Comments on the Geologic History of the Sea Islands 



of the Southeastern United States. 



J. M. Zeigler 45 



Part II. Salt Marshes as Vegetation. 



Relationships of Salt Marsh Vegetation. 



V. J. Chapman 47 



