Holocene marine transgression in the Black Sea: New evidence from the northwestern Black Sea shelf

Geological and Geomorphological Factors and Marine Conditions of the Azov‐Black Sea Basin and Coastal Characteristics as They Determine Prospecting for Seabed Prehistoric Sites on the Continental Shelf

“…16.23g sea bottom in any transgressive scenario for the Black Sea corridor; (2) transgressive parasequences involve the accumulation of lagoonal and marine deposits during rising relative sea level and landward migration of a coastline over coastal plain deposits. Our core data are in full agreement with Badyukova's conclusion, and we find no lithological signs of drowned windblown dunes described by the above-mentioned authors (Yanko-Hombach et al 2013b). …”

“…Our latest multidisciplinary study of geological material recovered in areas of the northwestern, northeastern, and southwestern Black Sea shelf (Yanko-Hombach et al 2013b;Mudie et al 2014) confirm our previous data.…”

“…For example, based on a few dozen thermoluminescence dates and 12 magneticpolarity datum planes, Zubakov (1988) has assigned a numerical age to the horizons as follows: Chaudian = 1.1 Ma-600 ka; Uzunlarian = 580-300 ka; Karangatian = 300-50 ka. Tchepalyga (1984), Yanko (1990), YankoHombach and Motnenko (2011;2012), Yanko-Hombach et al (2013b) suggest slightly different numerical ages for the Eo-and Neopleistocene geological sequences in the Black Sea. Ecostratigraphy of the Pleistocene and Holocene sediments is based on taxonomy and spatial distribution of bivalve molluscs (Nevesskaya 1965), gastropods (Il'ina 1966), benthic foraminifera and ostracoda (Yanko 1990;Yanko & Gramova 1990;Yanko-Hombach 2007a,b) as well as palynological data supplemented by 14 C datings (e.g.…”

“…Lower Neoeuxinian sediments are distributed everywhere in the Black Sea below isobath 100 m (Kvasov 1975;Fedorov 1977;1978;Shcherbakov et al 1978, Abashin et al 1982Shcherbakov 1983;Shnyukov 1985;Svitoch et al 1998;Kuprin 2002;Kuprin & Sorokin 2007;Yanko-Hombach 2007a;Yanko-Hombach et al 2013b, fig. 3).…”

Evolution of the Danube Deep-Sea Fan since the Last Glacial Maximum: new insights into Black Sea water-level fluctuations

“…15) and Nicholas et al (2011;i.e. water-level at −107 m) but is supported by the results of Aksu et al (2002), Hiscott et al (2007b; Outflow Hypothesis II; Fig. 15), Giosan et al (2009 and Yanko-Hombach et al (2014) who stated that the Black Sea level stood at about −40 m during the Early Holocene. Relative highstand conditions are also supported by the initial formation of the Letea-Caraornam spit, a main geomorphological feature of the modern Danube delta, from 11,700 cal a. BP (Panin et al, 1983).…”