Submerged speleothems - Expect the unexpected. Examples from the eastern Adriatic Coast (Croatia)

Acta Carsologica

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 389-396

  Surić, Maša ^a   Jalžić, Branko ^b   Petricioli, Donat ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZADAR   (Croatia)

^b CROATIAN NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM   (Croatia)

^c DIIV Ltd   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Adriatic Sea; Croatia; Submerged speleothems

Indexed keywords

DEEP-SEA SEDIMENT; DEPOSITION; HOLOCENE; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PLEISTOCENE; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SPELEOTHEM; STALACTITE; STALAGMITE; SUBMARINE CAVE; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

ADRIATIC COAST [CROATIA]; CROATIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 38849086652     PISSN: 05836050     EISSN: 15802612     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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