Late Quaternary evolution of the Çanakkale strait region (Dardanelles, NW Turkey): Implications of a major erosional event for the postglacial Mediterranean-Marmara Sea connection

Geo-Marine Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 113-131

  Gökaşan, Erkan ^a   Tur, Hüseyin ^c   Ergin, Mustafa ^d   Görüm, Tolga ^a,b   Batuk, Fatma Gül ^a   Sağcı, Nurcan ^c   Ustaömer, Timur ^c   Emem, Ozan ^a   Alp, Hakan ^c  

^a YILDIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; SEISMOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

BATHYMETRIC DATA; HIGHSTAND SYSTEMS TRACT; LATE QUATERNARY; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGES; MEDITERRANEAN WATERS; SEISMIC PROFILES; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; TRANSGRESSIVE SYSTEMS TRACTS;

EROSION;

BATHYMETRY; CONTINENTAL SHELF; EROSION; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; OCEAN BASIN; POSTGLACIAL; QUATERNARY; SEISMIC DATA; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SILL; STRAIT; SYSTEMS TRACT; TRANSGRESSION; UNCONFORMITY; WATER FLOW;

AEGEAN SEA; CANAKKALE [TURKEY]; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SEA OF MARMARA; TURKEY;

EID: 77952669355     PISSN: 02760460     EISSN: 14321157     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00367-009-0166-2     Document Type: Article

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