The Holocene sea level story since 7500 BP - Lessons from the Eastern Mediterranean, the Black and the Azov Seas

Quaternary International

Volumn 225, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 160-179

  Bruckner H ^a   Kelterbaum, D ^a   Marunchak, O ^a   Porotov, A ^b   Vott A ^c  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRIC SURVEY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIOEUSTACY; HOLOCENE; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SHORELINE CHANGE; TECTONIC SETTING; TRANSGRESSION-REGRESSION CYCLE;

BLACK SEA; KRASNODAR [RUSSIAN FEDERATION]; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (EAST); RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SEA OF AZOV; TAMAN PENINSULA;

EID: 77956618448     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2008.11.016     Document Type: Article

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