The post-glacial transgression of the Black Sea

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 221-250

  Shmuratko, Valery I ^a  

^a ODESSA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Black Sea; Bosphorus; eustatic sea level fluctuations; ice volume; recent tectonic movements; water balance

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EID: 70449706512     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5302-3_9     Document Type: Chapter

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