Geology versus myth: The Holocene evolution of the Sybaris Plain

Annals of Geophysics

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1017-1033

  Cucci, Luigi ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coastal progradation; Holocene; Subsidence; Sybaris; Uplift

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HOLOCENE; NEOLITHIC; PLEISTOCENE; SUBSIDENCE; UPLIFT;

CALABRIA; COSENZA; CRATI DELTA; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33749071776     PISSN: 15935213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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