Seismic stratigraphy of Late Quaternary sediments of western Mersin Bay shelf, (NE Mediterranean Sea)

Marine Geology

Volumn 220, Issue 1-4, 2005, Pages 113-130

  Okyar, Mahmut ^a   Ergin, Mustafa ^b   Evans, Graham ^c,d  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cilicia Basin; Depositional sequence; Holocene; Late Quaternary; Mersin Bay; Shallow seismic

Indexed keywords

CILICIA BASIN; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; HOLOCENE; LATE-QUATERNARY; MERSIN BAY; SHALLOW SEISMIC;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CHAOS THEORY; COASTAL ZONES; DEPOSITION; GRAVITATION; REFLECTION; RIVERS; STRATIGRAPHY;

SEISMOLOGY;

MARINE SEDIMENT; QUATERNARY; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; MERSIN BAY; TURKEY; WORLD;

EID: 26044454841     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2005.06.024     Document Type: Article

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