Deltas south of the Bosphorus Strait record persistent Black Sea outflow to the Marmara Sea since ∼10 ka

Marine Geology

Volumn 190, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 95-118

  Hiscott, R N ^a   Aksu, A E ^a   Yasar D ^b   Kaminski, M A ^c   Mudie, P J ^d   Kostylev, V E ^d   MacDonald, J C ^a   Isler F I ^b   Lord, A R ^c  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Black Sea; Deltas; Marmara Sea; Sequence stratigraphy; Transgression

Indexed keywords

DELTA LOBES;

GEOCHRONOLOGY; ISOTOPES; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTS;

HYDROGEOLOGY;

DELTA; OUTFLOW; PROGRADATION; SAPROPEL; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TRANSGRESSION;

BLACK SEA; SEA OF MARMARA;

EID: 0037107469     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-3227(02)00344-4     Document Type: Article

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