Vertical displacement trends in the Aegean coastal zone (NE Mediterranean) during the Holocene assessed by geo-archaeological data

Holocene

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 717-728

  Pavlopoulos, Kosmas ^a   Kapsimalis, Vasilios ^b   Theodorakopoulou, Katerina ^a   Panagiotopoulos, Ioannis P ^b  

^a HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aegean Sea; geoarchaeological indicators; Lambeck's model; relative sea level changes; vertical movements

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; COASTAL ZONE; COMPACTION; DATA SET; DISPLACEMENT; GLACIOISOSTASY; HOLOCENE; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGIONAL GEOLOGY; ROMAN ERA; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SUBSIDENCE; TREND ANALYSIS; UPLIFT; VERTICAL MOVEMENT;

AEGEAN ISLANDS; AEGEAN SEA; CYCLADES; HELLENIC ARC; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; THRACE;

THESSALONIKI;

EID: 84861818434     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683611423683     Document Type: Article

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