North Aegean sedimentary basin evolution during the Late Eocene to Early Oligocene based on sedimentological studies on Lemnos Island (NE Greece)

Geologica Carpathica

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 455-464

  Maravelis, Aggelos ^a   Konstantopoulos, Panagiotis ^a   Pantopoulos, George ^a   Zelilidis, Avraam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Currents; Lemnos Island; Sand rich; Submarine fan; Turbidites

Indexed keywords

AGGRADATION; BASIN EVOLUTION; COLOR; EOCENE; GRAIN SIZE; OLIGOCENE; PROGRADATION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SHELF SEDIMENT; SUBMARINE FAN; TEXTURE; TURBIDITE;

AEGEAN ISLANDS; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; LEMNOS; LESBOS; NORTHERN AEGEAN; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 36549027904     PISSN: 13350552     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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