Salt Water Marshes of Rhode Island

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WATERERSHED DELINEATION EXERCISE 1 Rules of Contours

The Great RI Flood of 2010 A Hydrological Assessment

What’s that awful smell?Thank the bacteria kids…itsa beautiful sulfur redoxreaction!•Redox stands for oxidation-reduction.(the chemical exchange <strong>of</strong> electrons, or energy, betweenone element and another in the soil)• In salt marshes, where the soil is saturated peat, thereisn't room for oxygen. Soil bacteria eat the organic matter(formerly salt marsh plants) and convert sulfur from theseawater (MgSO4), into Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) whichproduces that rotten egg smell <strong>of</strong> the marsh.

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