Catastrophic flooding of the Black Sea

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 31, Issue , 2003, Pages 525-554

  Ryan, William B F ^a   Major, Candace O ^b   Lericolais, Gilles ^c   Goldstein, Steven L ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c IFREMER   (France)

Author keywords

Bosporus; Flood; Regression; Shoreline; Younger Dryas

Indexed keywords

LAKES; OCEANOGRAPHY; SALINE WATER;

SEABED MAPPING;

EARTH SCIENCES;

FLOODING; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; LAKE; SALINE INTRUSION;

BLACK SEA;

EID: 0141569459     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.earth.31.100901.141249     Document Type: Article

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