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Greece has one of the highest ratios of shoreline length to area in the world. Except for a few aggrading areas, most of Greece’s coasts have not recovered following the rapid sea-level rise of the Late Pleistocene and first half of the Holocene. Evidence of drowned coastal areas can be found everywhere with only 4 or 5 deltaic regions advancing in the last 5,000 years.
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Moutzouris, C.I., Marouikian, H. (1988). Greece. In: Walker, H.J. (eds) Artificial Structures and Shorelines. The GeoJournal Library, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2999-9_24
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