Geomorphic and archaeological - Historical evidence for past earthquakes in Greece

Annali di Geofisica

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 589-601

  Gaki Papanastassiou, Kalliopi ^a   Papanastassiou, Dimitris ^b   Maroukian, Hampik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b Geodynamic Institute   (Greece)

Author keywords

Archaeology; Geomorphology; Greece; Morphotectonics; Palaeoseismology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0342886773     PISSN: 03652556     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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