Late Glacial–Holocene palaeoceanography of the Sea of Marmara: timing of connections with the Mediterranean and the Black Seas

Estimation of successive coseismic vertical offsets using coeval sedimentary events – application to the southwestern limit of the Sea of Marmara's Central Basin (North Anatolian Fault)

“…The highest values characterize the 1380-980 cm so-called "sapropelic" interval. This organic matter enrichment has been previously reported in the different basins of the Sea of Marmara, and in the shallower zone between the Tekirdag and Central basins (Çagatay et al, 2000;Reichel and Halbach, 2007;Vidal et al, 2010). The different ages proposed are in agreement and a 11-7.5 kyr BP period (cal 14 C without reservoir correction) has been attributed to this particular episode.…”

“…1), the Sea of Marmara has become the focus of paleoenvironmental investigations (Çagatay et al, 2009;McHugh et al, 2006). In particular, late Quaternary climatic cycles, and especially associated sea level changes, left a strong sedimentary imprint in shallow parts as well as in deep basins (Çagatay et al, 2000;Major et al, 2006;Vidal et al, 2010, etc.). Different hypotheses (including catastrophic flooding) have been proposed for the last "reconnection" of the three realms through the Bosphorus and Dardanelles (Çanakkale Straits) sills (Ryan et al, 1997(Ryan et al, , 1999Aksu et al, 1999, Eriş et al, 2007.…”

“…Due to its importance for the study of the last climatic cycle, the hydrologic evolution of the Sea of Marmara has been intensively surveyed by different authors through sedimentation. Biological, chemical, mineralogical, and isotopic proxies, have been analyzed to detect the respective influence of the Black Sea and the Aegean Sea since the Last Glacial Maximum (MIS 2) depending on their surface level (Çagatay et al, 2000;Major et al, 2006;Reichel and Halbach, 2007;Eriş et al, 2007;Vidal et al, 2010). The impact of these variations has also been investigated in shallow parts (Çagatay et al, 2003).…”

Boron content of Lake Ulubat sediment: A key to interpret the morphological history of NW Anatolia, Turkey

“…It should be remembered that the present Sea of Marmara was a relatively small but deep lake (Smith et al, 1995;Aksu et al, 1999;Çağatay et al, 2000) during the last glaciation (= latest Pleistocene), consequently the base level of the Susurluk Drainage Basin was lower. Combined with active tectonism, the elevational difference between the basin and the upland of SDB (c. 2500-3000 m) could have played a major role in the rapid formation of the present morphology;…”

Geochemical Dynamics of the Natural-Gas Hydrate System in the Sea of Marmara, Offshore Turkey

“…Stratigraphic analysis of Late Quaternary sediments of the Sea of Marmara indicates that it was a freshwater lake during the last glacial period 12 kyr 14C Before Present (BP) (14.7 ka BP) (Aksu et al, 2002;Cagatay et al, 2000;McHugh et al, 2008;Vidal et al). After its reconnection with the Mediterranean about 12 kyr 14C BP the sea level in the Sea of Marmara rose in tandem with the global ocean.…”