The northwestern Black Sea: Climatic and sea-level changes in the Late Quaternary

The Black Sea Flood Question: Changes in Coastline, Climate, and Human Settlement

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 387-404

  Panin, Nicolae ^a   Popescu, Irina ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEO ECOLOGY GEOECOMAR   (Romania)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Black Sea; Bosphorus sill; Danube Delta; flooding; glacial; highstand; interglacial; lowstand; Mediterranean Sea; Sea level

Indexed keywords

EID: 61749097310     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5302-3_16     Document Type: Chapter

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