The disappearance of helike-classical Greece-New remote sensing and geological evidence

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 1263-1278

  Ferentinos, George ^a   Papatheodorou, George ^a   Geraga, Maria ^a   Christodoulou, Dimitris ^a   Fakiris, Elias ^a   Iatrou, Margarita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Coastal nearshore landslide; Corinth Gulf; Helike city; Side scan sonar; Subbottom profiler

Indexed keywords

DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; GEOLOGY; LANDSLIDES;

CORINTH GULF; GEOLOGICAL HAZARDS; GEOLOGICAL PROCESS; HELIKE CITY; MARINE REMOTE SENSING; SIDE SCAN SONAR; SUBBOTTOM PROFILERS; TRANSLATIONAL LANDSLIDES;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84928798180     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70201263     Document Type: Article

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