Development of the Kura delta, Azerbaijan; a record of Holocene Caspian sea-level changes

Marine Geology

Volumn 222-223, Issue 1-4, 2005, Pages 359-380

  Hoogendoorn, Robert M ^a   Boels, Jelle F ^a   Kroonenberg, Salomon B ^a   Simmons, Mike D ^b,d   Aliyeva, Elmira ^c   Babazadeh, Aliya D ^c   Huseynov, Dadash ^c  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Azerbaijan)

^d Neftex Petroleum Consultants Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Caspian Sea; Delta progradation; Kura River; Marine erosion; Regressive deposits; Transgressive surface

Indexed keywords

DELTA PROPAGADATION; GLOBAL SEA LEVEL (GSL); MARINE ENVIRONMENTS; MARINE EROSION; REGRESSIVE DEPOSITS; TRANSREGRESSIVE SURFACE;

COASTAL ZONES; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EROSION; IMAGE SENSORS; MARINE BIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

SEA LEVEL;

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; DELTAIC SEDIMENTATION; HOLOCENE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

ASIA; AZERBAIJAN; CASPIAN SEA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; KURA DELTA; WEST ASIA; WORLD;

EID: 27644504519     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2005.06.007     Document Type: Conference Paper

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