“…The aim of this paper is to summarize investigations of the palynology and contents of dinoflagellate cysts of ten cores from the deep, western part of the Black Sea (Atanassova, 1990(Atanassova, , 1995a(Atanassova, , 1995b(Atanassova, , 1999(Atanassova, , 2002Atanassova andBozilova, 1992, 1998;Shopov et al, 1992). The Black Sea deep-water sediment sequences provide long and continuous detailed records of changes in the biological and lithological environment in contrast to the shelf sequences, where a hiatus in the early Holocene sediments exists.…”