High energy marine flood deposits on Astypalaea Island, Greece: Possible evidence for the AD 1956 southern Aegean tsunami

Marine Geology

Volumn 163, Issue 1-4, 2000, Pages 303-315

  Dominey Howes, Dale ^a   Cundy, Andrew ^b   Croudace, Ian ^b  

^a Institute for Clean Growth and Future Mobility   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

137Cs and 210Pb dating; Astypalaea, Greece; Sedimentology; Tsunami

Indexed keywords

FLOOD DEPOSIT; MARINE SEDIMENT; PROVENANCE; TSUNAMI;

GREECE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 0034652493     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-3227(99)00100-0     Document Type: Article

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