Late Cenozoic development of the Strouma and Mesta fluviolacustrine systems, SW Bulgaria and northern Greece

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 26, Issue 22-24, 2007, Pages 2783-2800

  Zagorchev, Ivan ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COAL; EROSION; LAKES; TECTONICS;

MIOCENE TRANSPRESSION; RIVER TERRACES; TECTONIC HISTORY;

RIVERS;

ALLUVIAL FAN; CENOZOIC; CLIMATE CHANGE; FLUVIOLACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; GLACIOFLUVIAL DEPOSIT; HORST; PLEISTOCENE; TECTONICS; THRUST FAULT;

AEGEAN SEA; BULGARIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ALGAE; PONTIA;

EID: 36549063722     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2007.07.017     Document Type: Article

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