Filling up the shelf - A sedimentary response to the last post-glacial sea rise

Marine Geology

Volumn 278, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 165-176

  Schattner, U ^a   Lazar, M ^a   Tibor, G ^a,b   Ben Avraham, Z ^a,c   Makovsky, Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b Israel of Oceanographic and Limnological Research   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Continental shelf; Eastern Mediterranean; Last Glacial Maximum; Late Quaternary; Nile River sediments; Sea level change; Seismic stratigraphy; Very high resolution seismic reflection; Younger Dryas

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL SHELVES; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LATE QUATERNARY; NILE RIVER SEDIMENTS; SEALEVEL CHANGE; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY; VERY HIGH RESOLUTION SEISMIC; YOUNGER DRYAS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA REDUCTION; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMIC WAVES; STRATIGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

SEISMOLOGY;

CONTINENTAL SHELF; FLOODING; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; POSTGLACIAL; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY; SEISMIC SURVEY;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (EAST);

EID: 78649631812     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2010.10.006     Document Type: Article

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