Cretaceous terrestrial and shallow marine deposits in northern South Dobrogea (SE Rumania)

Avram, Emil; Szasz, L.; Antonescu, E.; Baltreš, A.; Iva, M.; Melinte, Mihaela Carmen; Neagu, Theodor; Rădan, Sorin-Corneliu; Tomescu, C.

doi:10.1006/cres.1993.1022

Cited by 15 publications

(19 citation statements)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Several relative ages were inferred from the covering sedimentary sequences in South Dobrogea, i.e., Cambrian?-Carboniferous, Permian?-Triassic, Middle Jurassic-Upper Cretaceous, Eocene-Oligocene, and Miocene-Pliocene. These sedimentary cycles are separated by stratigraphic gaps of different time spans (B ancil a, 1973;T at arîm et al, 1977;Avram et al, 1988Avram et al, , 1993Dragastan et al, 1998). The spatial distribution of these sedimentary sequences is not uniform in South Dobrogea and they are influenced by the regional palaeogeography and tectonics.…”

Section: Geological and Stratigraphic Settingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These authors provided a relative age of uppermost Barremianelower Aptian for the studied deposits. Avram et al (1993) developed a comprehensive biostratigraphic analysis of 20 drilling boreholes in South Dobrogea. These authors provided the relative age of several marine and non-marine units, based on foraminifera, ammonites, ostracods, palynomorphs, and charophytes.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Early Cretaceous charophytes from south Dobrogea (Romania). Biostratigraphy and palaeobiogeography

Sanjuan

Vicente

Pérez-Cano

et al. 2021

Cretaceous Research

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Section: Geological and Stratigraphic Settingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Early Cretaceous charophytes from south Dobrogea (Romania). Biostratigraphy and palaeobiogeography

Sanjuan

Vicente

Pérez-Cano

et al. 2021

Cretaceous Research

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

“…The underlying bedrock, comprising Cretaceous calcareous sandstones and limestones (Avram et al, 1993), is exposed between sondages 3 and 4, and was observed in weathered form at both test pits ( Figures 3B,C).…”

Section: Age and Sedimentary Context Of The Dealul Peş Terica Findsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Thinking Outside the Box at Open-Air Archeological Contexts: Examples From Loess Landscapes in Southeast Romania

et al. 2020

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Stratified, well preserved sites preserving unambiguous geological and archeological data from which human-environmental interactions can be reconstructed, are rare. More commonly we must test our hypotheses based on extrapolation of the few available sites, particularly in regions with high sedimentation rates. Here we test the idea of aggregating "off-sites"-human traces which provide isolated evidence of activity in an area-to maximize the information which can meaningfully be extracted from Paleolithic open-air contexts. We present two case studies from the sediment-rich loess steppe of southeast Romania, Lipniţa and Dealul Peş terica. Both off-sites preserve low density, undiagnostic lithic assemblages which may otherwise be overlooked in favor of more impressive sites. We constrain the timing of occupation at these two localities to c. 61 and 34-41 ka at Lipniţa and Dealul Peş terica, and show that people were present near a river bank and on loess slopes respectively. Aggregation of data from the region suggests repeated visitation of riverine landscapes; additionally people likely ranged across landforms, particularly where raw material for making stone tools was plentiful. Our case studies demonstrate that empirical, incremental findings may still be generated from sites traditionally thought to be of little value. We argue that this approach is highly applicable to investigating the human implications for landscape context from archeological traces in sediment-rich, open-air situations.

show abstract

“…The latter covers the north‐eastern part of southern Dobrudja region (Avram et al . , 302). Crandell () and Crandell and Vornicu () use the term ‘Balkan flint’ in the same way as Comşa, who saw the Upper Cretaceous Murfatlar flint from Dobrudja as a variety of Balkan flint (Comşa, ).…”

Section: The Research Objectivesmentioning

confidence: 99%

First Geochemical ‘Fingerprinting’ of Balkan and Prut Flint from Palaeolithic Romania: Potentials, Limitations and Future Directions

et al. 2018

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Long-distance raw material transfers across Romania prior to the Last Glacial Maximum have previously been inferred from either visual and/or petrographic observations of East Carpathian sites. We investigated the potential to 'fingerprint' flint from archaeological sites at Mitoc-Malu Galben and Bistricioara-Lutărie III in Eastern Romania, using in situ highprecision analyses of 28 major, minor and trace elements determined by laser ablationinductively coupled plasmamass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) in combination with multivariate statistical analysis. Our results suggest that geochemical analyses have the ability to distinguish between different geographical sources but are unable to positively associate flint artefacts from archaeological contexts to these geochemical groups. The mismatches of signatures between artefacts and geological materials, however, raise new questions and open unforeseen perspectives.

show abstract

Cretaceous terrestrial and shallow marine deposits in northern South Dobrogea (SE Rumania)

Cited by 15 publications

References 0 publications

Early Cretaceous charophytes from south Dobrogea (Romania). Biostratigraphy and palaeobiogeography

Early Cretaceous charophytes from south Dobrogea (Romania). Biostratigraphy and palaeobiogeography

Thinking Outside the Box at Open-Air Archeological Contexts: Examples From Loess Landscapes in Southeast Romania

First Geochemical ‘Fingerprinting’ of Balkan and Prut Flint from Palaeolithic Romania: Potentials, Limitations and Future Directions

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About