Searching for ancient shipwrecks in the aegean sea: The discovery of chios and kythnos hellenistic wrecks with the use of marine Geological-geophysical methods

International Journal of Nautical Archaeology

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 365-381

  Sakellariou, Dimitris ^a   Georgiou, Panos ^a   Mallios, Aggellos ^a   Kapsimalis, Vasilios ^a   Kourkoumelis, Dimitris ^b   Micha, Paraskevi ^b   Theodoulou, Theotokis ^b   Dellaporta, Katerina ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^b Ministry of Culture   (Greece)

Author keywords

Amphora concentration; Ancient wrecks; Geological interpretation; Sedimentation rate; Side scan sonar; Sub bottom profiling

Indexed keywords

AMPHORA;

EID: 34548238727     PISSN: 10572414     EISSN: 10959270     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-9270.2006.00133.x     Document Type: Article

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