Delta progradation and sediment fluxes since the last glacial in the Thermaikos Gulf and the Sporades Basin, NW Aegean Sea, Greece

Marine Geology

Volumn 222-223, Issue 1-4, 2005, Pages 381-397

  Lykousis, Vasilios ^a   Karageorgis, Aristomenis P ^a   Chronis, George Th ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aegean Sea; Late Quaternary; Paleomorphology; Sediment fluxes; Thermaikos Gulf

Indexed keywords

AEGEAN SEA; LATE QUATERNARY; SEDIMENT FLUXES; THERMAIKOS GULF;

BATHYMETRY; CATCHMENTS; ESTUARIES; FLUXES; MORPHOLOGY; RIVERS; SEDIMENTS; SEISMOLOGY; TURBIDITY;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

DELTAIC DEPOSIT; HOLOCENE; LAST GLACIAL; PROGRADATION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

AEGEAN SEA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPORADES; THERMAIKOS GULF; WORLD;

EID: 27644514226     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2005.06.026     Document Type: Conference Paper

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