Palaeoecological setting of the western Black Sea area during the last 15 000 years

Holocene

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 576-584

  Atanassova, Juliana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Black Sea; Catastrophic flood; Dinoflagellate cysts; Holocene; Lateglacial; Pollen analysis; Vegetation history

Indexed keywords

HOLOCENE; PALEOECOLOGY;

BLACK SEA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; WORLD;

CORYLUS; DINOPHYCEAE; MALVACEAE; QUERCUS; TILIA;

EID: 20044367635     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0959683605hl832rp     Document Type: Article

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