Sea-level changes during the late Pleistocene-Holocene on the southern shelves of the Black Sea

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 603-631

  Algan, Oya ^a   Ergin, Mustafa ^b   Keskin, Şeref ^c   Gökaśan, Erkan ^d   Alpar, Bedri ^a   Ongan, Demet ^a   Kirci Elmas, Elmas ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c NIGDE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d YILDIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Black Sea; radiocarbon ages; sea level; seismic stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249930249     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5302-3_25     Document Type: Chapter

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