Sea-level changes and shelf break prograding sequences during the last 400 ka in the Aegean margins: Subsidence rates and palaeogeographic implications

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 29, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 2037-2044

  Lykousis, V ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aegean margins; Middle Upper Pleistocene; Palaeogeography; Sea level; Subsidence rates

Indexed keywords

DELTAIC SEDIMENTATION; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; MARGINAL SEA; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOSEISMICITY; PLEISTOCENE; PROGRADATION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEISMIC DATA; SHELF BREAK; SLOPE ANGLE; SUBSIDENCE; TECTONIC PLATE; WATER DEPTH;

AEGEAN SEA; CORINTH [PELOPONNISOS]; CYCLADAS; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; GULF OF PATRAS; IONIAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PELOPONNISOS; SOUTHERN AEGEAN; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 70349146709     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2008.11.005     Document Type: Article

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