Coastal uplift along the Eastern Black Sea coast: New marine terrace data from Eastern Pontides, Trabzon (Turkey) and a review

Journal of Coastal Research

Volumn 27, Issue 6 A, 2011, Pages 63-73

  Keskin, Serdar ^a,c   Pedoja, Kevin ^b   Bektaş, Osman ^c  

^a GENERAL DIRECTORATE OF MINERAL RESEARCH AND EXPLORATION   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

^c KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Coastal uplift; Eastern Black Sea; Eastern Pontides; Electron Spin Resonance; Marine terrace

Indexed keywords

BIVALVE; COASTAL ZONE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; GASTROPOD; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; QUATERNARY; SEA LEVEL; SHORELINE; TERRACE; UPLIFT;

BLACK SEA; PONTIDES; TRABZON [TURKEY]; TURKEY;

BIVALVIA; GASTROPODA;

EID: 79551552162     PISSN: 07490208     EISSN: 15515036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2112/JCOASTRES-D-09-00058.1     Document Type: Article

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