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Foraminifera and tidal notches: Dating neotectonic events at Korphos, Greece

Abstract

Fossil assemblages of foraminifera and thecamoebians from three salt-marsh cores recovered at Korphos, Greece, provided evidence for five transgression events since the mid Holocene. Marsh accretion rates based on radiocarbon-dated peat and geomorphic evidence from a series of discrete, v-shaped, submerged tidal notches indicated that these transgression events were rapid and episodic. Correlation of the tidal notches with the transgression …

Authors

Nixon FC; Reinhardt EG; Rothaus R

Journal

Marine Geology, Vol. 257, No. 1-4, pp. 41–53

Publisher

Elsevier

Publication Date

2 2009

DOI

10.1016/j.margeo.2008.10.011

ISSN

0025-3227