Rocky shore-gravelly beach transition, and storm/post-storm changes of a Holocene gravelly beach (Kos Island, Aegean Sea): stratigraphic significance

Facies

Volumn , Issue 42, 2000, Pages 227-244

  Sanders, Diethard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Beach changes; Gravelly beach; Kos Island (Greece); Recent; Transgressive record

Indexed keywords

BEACH MORPHOLOGY; BEACH PROFILE; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; GRAVEL; HOLOCENE; STRATIGRAPHY;

DODECANESE; GREECE; KOS;

EID: 0033912286     PISSN: 01729179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02562574     Document Type: Article

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