The Lefkada barrier and beachrock system (NW Greece) - Controls on coastal evolution and the significance of extreme wave events

Geomorphology

Volumn 139-140, Issue , 2012, Pages 330-347

  May, Simon Matthias ^a   Vött, Andreas ^b   Brückner, Helmut ^a   Grapmayer, Ralf ^a   Handl, Mathias ^a   Wennrich, Volker ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Barrier system; Beachrock; Event deposits; Lefkada; Shell taphonomy; Tsunami

Indexed keywords

BARRIER ISLAND; BEACHROCK; COASTAL EVOLUTION; COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; COASTAL SEDIMENT; COASTAL ZONE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; EXTREME EVENT; MORPHODYNAMICS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SHELL; TAPHONOMY; TSUNAMI EVENT;

AEGEAN ISLANDS; GREECE; IONIAN ISLANDS; LEFKADA;

EID: 84855985073     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.10.038     Document Type: Article

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