Holocene palaeogeographies of the eastern Acheloos River delta and the Lagoon of Etoliko (NW Greece)

Journal of Coastal Research

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1042-1066

  Vött, Andreas ^a   Schriever, Armin ^a   Handl, Mathias ^a   Brückner, Helmut ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aetolia; Akarnania; Delta progradation; Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction; River diversion; Sea level rise

Indexed keywords

DELTA; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HOLOCENE; LAGOON; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; SEA LEVEL; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

ACHELOOS RIVER; AETOLIA AND ACARNANIA; ETOLIKO LAGOON; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; MESOLONGION LAGOON; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WESTERN GREECE;

EID: 34547169600     PISSN: 07490208     EISSN: 15515036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2112/06-0716.1     Document Type: Article

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