Reconstructing middle to late Holocene palaeogeographies of the lower Messenian plain (southwestern Peloponnese, Greece): Coastline migration, vegetation history and sea level change

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 284, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 257-270

  Engel, M ^a   Knipping, M ^b   Bruckner H ^a   Kiderlen, M ^c   Kraft, J C ^d  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Akovitika; Geoarchaeology; Greece; Holocene stratigraphy; Pollen analysis; Sea level changes

Indexed keywords

AGGRADATION; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BEACH RIDGE; COASTAL LANDFORM; COASTAL WETLAND; CONTINENTAL SHELF; DEGRADATION; GLACIOEUSTACY; HOLOCENE; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; NEOLITHIC; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PALYNOLOGY; PARALIC ENVIRONMENT; PEAT; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENT YIELD; SHORELINE CHANGE; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; VEGETATION HISTORY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; MESSENIA; PELOPONNISOS; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 70450227304     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.10.005     Document Type: Article

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