Timing of the last Mediterranean Sea Black Sea connection from isostatic models and regional sea-level data

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 797-808

  Lambeck, Kurt ^a   Sivan, Dorit ^b   Purcell, Anthony ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Black Sea; glacio hydroisostasy; Marmara Sea; sea level prediction; sill height

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547801378     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5302-3_33     Document Type: Chapter

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