Late Holocene relative sea-level changes in Lebanon, Eastern Mediterranean

Marine Geology

Volumn 230, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 99-114

  Morhange, Christophe ^a   Pirazzoli, Paolo A ^b   Marriner, Nick ^a   Montaggioni, Lucien F ^b   Nammour, Tanios ^c  

^a CEREGE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c LEBANESE UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

bioconstruction; geomorphology; Holocene; Lebanon; Mediterranean; relative sea level; tectonics

Indexed keywords

BIOCONSTRUCTION; HOLOCENE; LEBANON; MEDITERRANEAN; RELATIVE SEA LEVEL;

COASTAL ZONES; GEOMORPHOLOGY; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; TECTONICS;

SEA LEVEL;

CARBON ISOTOPE; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; FAULT; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HOLOCENE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEISMOTECTONICS;

ASIA; EURASIA; LEBANON; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 33745982640     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2006.04.003     Document Type: Article

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