Water-level fluctuations in the Black Sea since the Last Glacial Maximum

The Black Sea Flood Question: Changes in Coastline, Climate, and Human Settlement

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 437-452

  Lericolais, Gilles ^a   Popescu, Irina ^b   Guichard, Francois ^c   Popescu, Speranta Maria ^d   Manolakakis, Laurence ^c  

^a IFREMER   (France)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Black Sea continental shelf; Bosphorus outlet; multibeam geomorphology; Rapid transgression; Seismic stratigraphy; Younger Dryas

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947650805     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5302-3_18     Document Type: Chapter

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