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It is likely that a number of the participants at this conference wonder why such an old subject as estuarine classification should be included in a symposium intended to provide a forum for the discussion of our up-to-date knowledge of the circulation patterns in estuaries, and of the manner in which the physical transport processes affect the living resources, geological processes, and other aspects of the marine environment. There is no short and simple answer to this question, since a number of factors concerning the use and misuse of the various estuarine classification schemes came together in the forefront of my consciousness at about the time I chose a subject for this meeting.
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Pritchard, D.W. (1989). Estuarine Classification — A Help or a Hindrance. In: Neilson, B.J., Kuo, A., Brubaker, J. (eds) Estuarine Circulation. Contemporary Issues in Science and Society. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4562-9_1
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