What can a sessile mollusk tell about neotectonics?

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 296, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 451-458

  Sivan, D ^a   Schattner, U ^a   Morhange, C ^b   Boaretto, E ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Biological sea level; Continental margin; Eastern Mediterranean; Holocene; Neotectonics

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CYPRUS ARC; DEAD SEA; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN; EASTERN TURKEY; EURASIA; GENERAL TRENDS; HOLOCENES; LATE HOLOCENE; LEBANON; MEAN SEA LEVEL; NEOTECTONICS; NUMERICAL MODELS; PLATE BOUNDARIES; PLEISTOCENE; RADIOCARBON DATES; RELATIVE SEA LEVEL; SEA SURFACES; TECTONIC UPLIFT; TIME DEPENDENT; VERTICAL DISPLACEMENTS;

MASS SPECTROMETRY; PARTICLE ACCELERATOR ACCESSORIES; TECTONICS; WATER;

SEA LEVEL;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; FOSSIL RECORD; HOLOCENE; MOLLUSC; NEOTECTONICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLATE CONVERGENCE; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SESSILE SPECIES;

LEVANTINE SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

DENDROPOMA; DENDROPOMA PETRAEUM; MOLLUSCA;

EID: 77954660280     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.05.032     Document Type: Article

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