Holocene estuary development in the Algarve Region (Southern Portugal) - A reconstruction of sedimentological and ecological evolution

Quaternary International

Volumn 221, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 141-158

  Schneider, Heike ^a,b   Höfer, Dana ^a   Trog, Carmen ^a   Busch, Stefanie ^a   Schneider, Michael ^a   Baade, Jussi ^a   Daut, Gerhard ^a   Mäusbacher, Roland ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; EROSION RATE; ESTUARINE DYNAMICS; HOLOCENE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALYNOLOGY; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

ALGARVE; PORTUGAL;

EID: 77953711059     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2009.10.004     Document Type: Article

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