Late Holocene tsunami traces on the western and southern coastlines of the Peloponnesus (Greece)

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 269, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 271-279

  Scheffers, Anja ^a   Kelletat, Dieter ^b   Vött, Andreas ^c   May, Simon Matthias ^c   Scheffers, Sander ^d  

^a SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^d CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

boulder deposits; geo archaeology; Hellenic Trench; Peloponnesus; radiocarbon dating; tsunamis

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; SAND; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; TECTONICS;

GEO-ARCHAEOLOGY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TSUNAMIGENIC SAND LAYER; VIBRACORE;

TSUNAMIS;

BOULDER; COAST; COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; FORMATION MECHANISM; HOLOCENE; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TSUNAMI; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; HELLENIC ARC; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PELOPONNISOS; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 42649112381     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.02.021     Document Type: Article

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