Internal structure and evolution of the Late Quaternary sequence in a shallow embayment: The Amvrakikos Gulf, NW Greece

Marine Geology

Volumn 222-223, Issue 1-4, 2005, Pages 399-418

  Kapsimalis, Vasilios ^a   Pavlakis, Petros ^a   Poulos, Serafim E ^b   Alexandri, Stamatina ^a   Tziavos, Christos ^a   Sioulas, Andreas ^a   Filippas, Dimitrios ^a   Lykousis, Vasilios ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^b Faculty of Geology and Geoenvironment   (Greece)

Author keywords

Amvrakikos Gulf; Late Quaternary; Sedimentation patterns; Systems tracts

Indexed keywords

HIGHSTAND SYSTEMS; LATE QUATERNARY; SEDIMENT CORES; SEDIMENTATION PATTERNS; SYSTEMS TRACTS;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIVERS; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTS; SEISMIC WAVES; STRATIGRAPHY;

COASTAL ZONES;

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; DELTAIC SEDIMENTATION; QUATERNARY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY;

AMVRAKIKOS GULF; IONIAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 27644464754     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2005.06.008     Document Type: Conference Paper

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