Timing of arrival of the Danube to the Black Sea: Provenance of sediments from DSDP site 380/380A

• Published in: Terra nova (Oxford, England) Vol. 30; no. 2; pp. 114 - 124
• Main Authors: Leeuw, Arjan, Morton, Andrew, Baak, Christiaan G. C., Vincent, Stephen J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.04.2018
• Subjects: Basins; Fluvial sediments; Messinian; Ocean floor; Pleistocene; Provenance; Rivers; Sediments; Siltstone; Black Sea

Estimates for the timing of the arrival of Danube sediment to the Black Sea range from Messinian to Pleistocene; the river is currently the largest sediment contributor, supplying 88 MT/yr. We identify two changes in siltstone provenance‐sensitive heavy mineral abundances at DSDP site 380/380A in th...