Reconstruction of Mid-Holocene sedimentary environments in the central part of the Thessaloniki Plain (Greece), based on microfaunal identification, magnetic susceptibility and grain-size analyses

Geomorphology

Volumn 97, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 617-630

  Ghilardi, Matthieu ^a   Kunesch, Stéphane ^b   Styllas, Mixalis ^c   Fouache, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST CRÉTEIL   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE DE GÉOGRAPHIE PHYSIQUE   (France)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Geoarchaeology; Grain size analysis; Greece; Magnetic susceptibility; Mid Holocene; Thessaloniki Plain

Indexed keywords

CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DRAINAGE BASIN; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GRAIN SIZE; HOLOCENE; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY;

CENTRAL MACEDONIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; THESSALONIKI [CENTRAL MACEDONIA];

THESSALONIKI;

EID: 42949163526     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2007.09.007     Document Type: Article

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