Micromorphology of Cave Sediments

Treatise on Geomorphology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2013, Pages 286-297

  Karkanas, P ^a   Goldberg, P ^b  

^a Ephoreia of Palaeoanthropology Speleology of Southern Greece   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic processes; Cave; Depositional processes; Diagenesis; Micromorphology; Post depositional processes; Sedimentology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903431505     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-374739-6.00120-2     Document Type: Chapter

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