Submerged paleoshorelines in the southern and western Black Sea-Implications for inundated prehistoric archaeological sites

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 671-696

  Coleman, Dwight F ^a   Ballard, Robert D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Holocene; sealevel migration; submerged paleoshorelines; underwater archaeological sites and survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960104702     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5302-3_28     Document Type: Chapter

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