Archaeological evidence for unusually rapid Holocene uplift rates in an active normal faulting terrain: Roman harbor of Aigeira, Gulf of Corinth, Greece

Geoarchaeology - An International Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 731-741

  Stiros, S C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; DETECTION METHOD; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; FAULTING; HARBOR; HOLOCENE; SEA LEVEL; UPLIFT;

GREECE; GULF OF CORINTH; IONIAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 0003429604     PISSN: 08836353     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6548(199810)13:7<731::AID-GEA4>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Article

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