Discussion: A critique of Possible waterways between the Marmara Sea and the Black Sea in the late Quaternary: Evidence from ostracod and foraminifer assemblages in lakes İznik and Sapanca, Turkey, Geo-Marine Letters, 2011

Geo-Marine Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 267-274

  Yaltirak, Cenk ^a   Ülgen, Umut B ^a   Zabci, Cengiz ^a   Franz, Sven Oliver ^b   Ön, Sena Akçer ^a   Sakinç, Mehmet ^a   Çaǧatay, M Namik ^a   Alpar, Bedri ^c   Öztürk, Kurultay ^c   Tunoǧlu, Cemal ^d   Ünlü, Selma ^c  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLACK SEA; LAKE SAPANCA; LATE QUATERNARY; MARMARA SEA; MULTI-CONNECTION; NORTH ANATOLIAN FAULT; PLEISTOCENE; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY; SEA-LEVEL CURVES; TECTONIC UPLIFT; UPLIFT RATE;

TECTONICS;

LAKES;

BOREHOLE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FORAMINIFERA; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; MARINE SEDIMENT; OSTRACOD; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOECOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE;

BLACK SEA; BOSPORUS STRAIT; BURSA [TURKEY]; IZNIK LAKE; SAKARYA RIVER; SAPANCA LAKE; SEA OF MARMARA; TURKEY;

FORAMINIFERA; OSTRACODA;

EID: 84860993345     PISSN: 02760460     EISSN: 14321157     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00367-011-0270-y     Document Type: Article

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