A Black Sea lowstand at 8500 yr B.P. indicated by a relict coastal dune system at a depth of 90 m below sea level

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 426, Issue , 2007, Pages 171-188

  Lericolais, Gilles ^a   Popescu, Irina ^b   Guichard, François ^c   Popescu, Speranta Maria ^d  

^a IFREMER   (France)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Black Sea continental shelf; Bosphorus outlet; Multibeam geomorphology; Rapid transgression; Seismic stratigraphy; Younger Dryas

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; MOLLUSCS; SEA LEVEL; SEISMOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; SURVEYS; WATER;

BOSPHORUS OUTLET; CONTINENTAL SHELVES; MULTIBEAMS; RAPID TRANSGRESSION; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY; YOUNGER DRYAS;

LAKES;

CONTINENTAL SHELF; DUNE; FLOOD; GEOMORPHOLOGY; ICE CAP; LAKE LEVEL; LOWSTAND; MELTWATER; PALYNOLOGY; QUATERNARY; SALT WATER; SAMPLING; SEA LEVEL; SEAWATER; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY; SUBAERIAL EXPOSURE; THAWING; YOUNGER DRYAS;

BLACK SEA; BOSPORUS STRAIT; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

DREISSENA; MOLLUSCA;

EID: 75749146336     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2007.2426(12)     Document Type: Article

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