Was the Black Sea catastrophically flooded in the early Holocene?

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 28, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 1-6

  Giosan, Liviu ^a   Filip, Florin ^b   Constatinescu, Stefan ^b  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEA LEVEL; STRATIGRAPHY;

BLACK SEA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EARLY HOLOCENE; FLOODED AREAS; RADIOCARBON AGE;

FLOODS;

DELTA; FLOOD; HOLOCENE; RADIOCARBON DATING; STRATIGRAPHY;

BLACK SEA; EURASIA;

MOLLUSCA;

EID: 57749205603     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.10.012     Document Type: Article

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