- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Tidal marshes
- Creator:
- Seabrook, Charles
- Date of Original:
- 2006-10-13
- Subject:
- Marshes--Georgia
Salt marshes--Georgia
Coastal plains--Georgia - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- Encyclopedia article about tidal marshes in Georgia. Almost a third of the Atlantic Coast's tidal salt marshes are located in Georgia's Lower Coastal Plain, as are thousands of acres of rare tidal freshwater marshes. Immortalized in poet Sidney Lanier's poem "The Marshes of Glynn," these wide expanses of salt marsh are the most visible physical feature along Georgia's 100-mile-long coast. The salt marshes stretch in a band four to six miles wide between the mainland and coastal barrier islands. A major reason for Georgia's extensive expanses of salt marsh is that its coast experiences the highest tides along the southeastern shoreline. In general, the higher the tidal range, the greater the production potential of the marsh.
GSE identifier: SS2G1 - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/geography-environment/tidal-marshes/
- Language:
- eng
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