Archaeological and paleontological evidence of climate dynamics, sea-level change, and coastline migration in the Bulgarian sector of the Circum-Pontic Region

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 453-481

  Filipova Marinova, Mariana ^a  

^a Museum of Natural History   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

biostratigraphy; Black Sea transgressions and regressions; dinoflagellates; Holocene; Late Pleistocene; molluscs; paleoenvironmental reconstruction; pollen

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249872387     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5302-3_19     Document Type: Chapter

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