Recent surficial shelf sediments of the Cilician Basin (Turkey), northeastern Mediterranean

1997-11-01
Ediger, V
Evans, G
Ergin, M
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The continental shelf of Mersin Bay forms the northwestern margin of the Adana-Cilician Basin; it extends from the Goksu delta (in the southwest) to the Seyhan-Tarsus-Ceyhan delta (in the northeast) and is narrower and steeper in the southwest than in the northeast.
Sea, Inner, Dispersa, Circulation
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/66617
CONTINENTAL SHELF RESEARCH
Graduate School of Marine Sciences, Article

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V. Ediger, G. Evans, and M. Ergin, “Recent surficial shelf sediments of the Cilician Basin (Turkey), northeastern Mediterranean,” CONTINENTAL SHELF RESEARCH, pp. 1659–1677, 1997, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/66617.
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