Early Holocene Marine Flooding of the Black Sea
- 1 July 2000
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Quaternary Research
- Vol. 54 (1) , 68-71
- https://doi.org/10.1006/qres.2000.2149
Abstract
Echo-sounding data recorded in the Black Sea in 1969 imaged a chain of hills 5- to 150-m high at a depth of 2000–2200 m that resemble hills on the lower continental rise. Like those hills, the features in the western Black Sea may have been created by bottom currents. The easterly flowing currents inferred to have formed the hills may be related to a catastrophic flood of the Black Sea from the Sea of Marmara 7150 yr ago.Keywords
This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
- Potential for large-scale submarine slope failure and tsunami generation along the U.S. mid-Atlantic coastGeology, 2000
- Oscillating Quaternary water levels of the Marmara Sea and vigorous outflow into the Aegean Sea from the Marmara Sea–Black Sea drainage corridorMarine Geology, 1999
- Westward propagation of the North Anatolian fault into the northern Aegean: Timing and kinematicsGeology, 1999
- An abrupt drowning of the Black Sea shelfMarine Geology, 1997