Late Holocene events that shaped the shoreline at the northern Gulf of Aqaba recorded by a buried fossil reef

Israel Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 58, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 355-368

  Shaked, Yonathan ^a   Lazar, Boaz ^a,b   Marco, Shmuel ^c   Stein, Mordechai ^d   Agnon, Amotz ^b  

^a The Interuniversity Institute for Marine Science Eilat   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

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EID: 84856643119     PISSN: 00212164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1560/IJES.58.3-4.355     Document Type: Article

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