Boulder fields: A valuable morphological indicator of palaeotsunami in the Mediterranean sea

Zeitschrift fur Geomorphologie, Supplementband

Volumn 146, Issue , 2006, Pages 173-194

  Mastronuzzi, Giuseppe ^a   Pignatelli, Cosimo ^a   Sansò, Paolo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOULDER; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; EMPLACEMENT; HURRICANE; HYDRODYNAMICS; MORPHOLOGY; SEISMIC WAVE; STORM; TSUNAMI;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 38849099033     PISSN: 00442798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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