An abrupt drowning of the Black Sea shelf

During latest Quaternary glaciation, the Black Sea became a giant freshwater lake. The surface of this lake drew down to levels more than 100 m below its outlet. When the Mediterranean rose to the Bosporus sill at 7,150 yr BP11Unless otherwise noted, all dates reported are raw carbon-14 ages before...

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Published inMarine geology Vol. 138; no. 1-2; pp. 119 - 126
Main Authors Ryan, William B.F., Pitman, Walter C., Major, Candace O., Shimkus, Kazimieras, Moskalenko, Vladamir, Jones, Glenn A., Dimitrov, Petko, Gorür, Naci, Sakinç, Mehmet, Yüce, Hüseyin
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier B.V 01.04.1997
Subjects
Black Sea
Bosporus
Mediterranean
Sapropel
Transgression
MED, Black Sea
Mediterranean
Black Sea
Bosporus
Transgression
Sapropel
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Summary:During latest Quaternary glaciation, the Black Sea became a giant freshwater lake. The surface of this lake drew down to levels more than 100 m below its outlet. When the Mediterranean rose to the Bosporus sill at 7,150 yr BP11Unless otherwise noted, all dates reported are raw carbon-14 ages before reservoir corrections (460 yr) and thus are compatible with previously published dates., saltwater poured through this spillway to refill the lake and submerge, catastrophically, more than 100,000 km2 of its exposed continental shelf. The permanent drowning of a vast terrestrial landscape may possibly have accelerated the dispersal of early neolithic foragers and farmers into the interior of Europe at that time.
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ISSN:0025-3227
1872-6151
DOI:10.1016/S0025-3227(97)00007-8