Carolina Environmental Diversity Explorations
A blackwater river from sea to source · By Dirk Frankenberg
Sediment salt marshes
Figure 4. Salt marsh behind Bogue Bank just east of Bogue inlet (Photograph by the author. More about the photograph)
Figure 4 shows salt marshes growing inside the mouth of Bogue Inlet on sediment that has settled out of flooding tides. Areas of open water separate these marshes, but there is clearly more marsh than open water this close to the inlet. How these plants got established here is not known, but in all likelihood both sexual and asexual processes were involved.
