Holocene uplift and subsidence of the Helike Delta, Gulf of Corinth, Greece

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 146, Issue , 1998, Pages 41-56

  Soter, Steven ^a  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEOTECTONICS; QUATERNARY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

GREECE;

EID: 0032295026     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.146.01.03     Document Type: Article

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