Buried archeological remains connected to the Greek-Roman harbor at Tindari (north-east Sicily): Results from geomorphological and geophysical investigations

Annals of Geophysics

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 223-233

  Bottari, Carla ^a   Urbini, Stefano ^a   Bianca, Marcello ^c   D'Amico, Maria ^b   Marchetti, Marco ^a   Pizzolo, Francesco ^b  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; HARBOR; HISTORIC BUILDING; HOLOCENE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOTOPOGRAPHY; SHORELINE;

ITALY; SICILY;

EID: 84862125800     PISSN: 15935213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4401/ag-4656     Document Type: Article

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