Black Sea-Marmara Sea Quaternary connections: New data from the Bosphorus, İstanbul, Turkey

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 204, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 277-295

  Kerey, I Erdal ^a   Meriç, Engin ^a   Tunoǧlu, Cemal ^b   Kelling, Gilbert ^c   Brenner, Robert L ^d   Doǧan, A Umran ^d,e  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^e ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Black Sea; Facies associations; Faunal affinities; Flood events; Mediterranean; Quaternary

Indexed keywords

COASTAL EVOLUTION; DOWNCUTTING; FACIES ANALYSIS; HOLOCENE; PLEISTOCENE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENTATION; STRAIT;

BLACK SEA; BOSPORUS STRAIT; EURASIA; SEA OF MARMARA; TURKEY;

AVES; MARMARA; MELEAGRIS GALLOPAVO;

EID: 1542321103     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(03)00731-4     Document Type: Article

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