Status of the Black Sea flood hypothesis

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 63-88

  Ryan, William B F ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

dunes; flood; Neoeuxinian; pans; regression; shoreline; unconformity

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547794831     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5302-3_4     Document Type: Chapter

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