The lake voulkaria (Akarnania, NW Greece) palaeoenvironmental archive - A sediment trap for multiple tsunami impact since the mid-holocene

Zeitschrift fur Geomorphologie

Volumn 53, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages 1-37

  Vott A ^a   Bruckner H ^b   May, S M ^a   Sakellariou, D ^c   Nelle, O ^d   Lang, F ^e   Kapsimalis, V ^c   Jahns, S ^f   Herd, R ^g   Handl, M ^b   Fountoulis, I ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^e DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^f Referat Braunkohle   (Germany)

^g BRANDENBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOCHTHON; AUTOCHTHON; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; GEOCHEMICAL METHOD; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; HOLOCENE; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; MICROMORPHOLOGY; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEDIMENT TRAP; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TSUNAMI;

GREECE; IONIAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 72249116328     PISSN: 03728854     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0372-8854/2009/0053-0001     Document Type: Conference Paper

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