A mid-late Holocene sapropelic sediment unit from the southern Marmara sea shelf and its palaeoceanographic significance

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 18, Issue 4-5, 1999, Pages 531-540

  Çaǧatay, M Namik ^a   Algan, Oya ^a   Sakinç, Mehmet ^b   Eastoe, Christopher J ^c   Egesel, Leyla ^d   Balkis, Nuray ^a   Ongan, Demet ^a   Caner, Hülya ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

^d MATERIALS INSTITUTE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOLOCENE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; SAPROPEL;

SEA OF MARMARA;

EID: 0033119967     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-3791(98)00094-8     Document Type: Article

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