The late glacial great flood in the Ponto-Caspian basin

The Black Sea Flood Question: Changes in Coastline, Climate, and Human Settlement

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 119-148

  Chepalyga, Andrei L ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

civilization; Khvalynian transgression; Noah's Flood; spillways; superfloods

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892288591     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5302-3_6     Document Type: Chapter

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