Brackish marsh benthic microfauna and paleoenvironmental changes during the last 6.000 years on the coastal plain of marathon (SE Greece)

Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 539-547

  Triantaphyllou, Maria V ^a   Pavlopoulos, Kosmas ^b   Tsourou, Theodora ^a   Dermitzakis, Michael D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Benthic foraminifers; Holocene; Marathon plain; Marsh paleoenvironments; Microfaunal bio topes; Ostracodes

Indexed keywords

EID: 59749099448     PISSN: 00356883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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