Molluscan paleoecology in the reconstruction of coastal changes

The Black Sea Flood Question: Changes in Coastline, Climate, and Human Settlement

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 23-46

  Basso, Daniela ^a   Corselli, Cesare ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

coastline migration; Iskenderun Bay; marine benthic associations; molluscan paleoecology; taphonomic signature

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956182899     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5302-3_2     Document Type: Chapter

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