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Comment on “Coastal subsidence, destruction layers and earthquakes from an underwater archaeological excavation: Kenchreai, eastern harbour of Roman Corinth, Greece” by S. C. Stiros. Mediterranean Geoscience Reviews, https://doi.org/10.1007/s42990-020-00019-4

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The geoarchaeological survey in Kenchreai Bay was part of a PhD Thesis (Kolaiti 2019) performed under the supervision of Assoc. Professor Evyenia Yiannouli, with the permission of the Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities (EEA) and approved by the University of Peloponnese, Department of History Archaeology and Cultural Resources Management. The preliminary results were first presented in Kolaiti and Mourtzas (2016). We would like to thank Dr. Attila Çiner (Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences, Director, Istanbul Technical University), Editor-in-Chief of Mediterranean Geoscience Reviews and the anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments. Thanks are also due to Vasileios Stathopoulos, LLM and Katerina Mourtza, LLMc. for providing us useful advice, and to Mr. Stephen Taylor, Consultant at Cambridge Assessment English for editing the English text.

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Kolaiti, E., Mourtzas, N. Comment on “Coastal subsidence, destruction layers and earthquakes from an underwater archaeological excavation: Kenchreai, eastern harbour of Roman Corinth, Greece” by S. C. Stiros. Mediterranean Geoscience Reviews, https://doi.org/10.1007/s42990-020-00019-4. Med. Geosc. Rev. 2, 299–306 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42990-020-00034-5

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