Coastal wetlands as recorders of earthquake subsidence in the Aegean: A case study of the 1894 Gulf of Atalanti earthquakes, central Greece

Marine Geology

Volumn 170, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 3-26

  Cundy, A B ^a   Kortekaas, S ^b   Dewez, T ^c   Stewart, I S ^c   Collins, P E F ^c   Croudace, I W ^a   Maroukian, H ^d   Papanastassiou, D ^e   Gaki Papanastassiou, P ^d   Pavlopoulos, K ^d   Dawson, A ^b  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

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

^c BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^e NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

210Pb and 137Cs dating; Central Greece; Coseismic subsidence; Earthquakes; Foraminifera; Salt marshes; Tectonic models

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; BIOINDICATOR; COASTAL AREA; EARTHQUAKE; GREECE; GULF; MORPHOLOGY; RADIOISOTOPE; WETLAND;

COASTAL LANDFORM; COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; COASTAL WETLAND; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; SUBSIDENCE;

GREECE;

EID: 0034735201     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-3227(00)00062-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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