A marine geoarchaeological survey, cape Sounion, Greece: Preliminary results

Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 357-371

  Papatheodorou, George ^a   Geraga, Maria ^a   Christodoulou, Dimitris ^a   Iatrou, Margarita ^a   Fakiris, Elias ^a   Heath, Stuart ^a   Baika, Kalliopi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b Greek Ministry of Culture   (Greece)

Author keywords

Marine remote sensing techniques; Relative sea level change; Sounio; Underwater archaeology

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GEOPHYSICS; REMOTE SENSING; SEA LEVEL; SILVER MINES;

GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYS; HELLENISTICS; MARINE REMOTE SENSING; MARINE REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUE; RELATIVE SEA-LEVEL CHANGES; REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES; SEAFLOORS; SEALEVEL CHANGE; SOUNIO; UNDERWATER ARCHEOLOGY;

STRATIGRAPHY;

EID: 84930747579     PISSN: 11089628     EISSN: 22418121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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