Quaternary elevation change of the Gulf of Corinth in central Greece

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 354, Issue 1710, 1996, Pages 1125-1164

  Westaway, Rob ^a  

^a NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL SEDIMENT; ELEVATION CHANGE; INTERGLACIAL; QUATERNARY; QUATERNARY EVOLUTION; SEDIMENTARY BASIN;

GREECE; GULF OF CORINTH;

EID: 0030425443     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1996.0043     Document Type: Article

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