Catastrophic flooding of the Black Sea

WBF Ryan, CO Major, G Lericolais… - Annual Review of …, 2003 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Decades of seabed map**, reflection profiling, and seabed sampling reveal that
throughout the past two million years the Black Sea was predominantly a freshwater lake …

The co-evolution of Black Sea level and composition through the last deglaciation and its paleoclimatic significance

CO Major, SL Goldstein, WBF Ryan, G Lericolais… - Quaternary Science …, 2006 - Elsevier
The Black Sea was an inland lake during the last ice age and its sediments are an excellent
potential source of information on Eurasian climate change, showing linkages between …

Beyond redox: Control of trace-metal enrichment in anoxic marine facies by watermass chemistry and sedimentation rate

J Liu, TJ Algeo - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2020 - Elsevier
Although redox conditions are the dominant control on authigenic enrichment of trace metals
in marine sediments, other factors may be important within environments having relatively …

Unraveling signatures of biogeochemical processes and the depositional setting in the molecular composition of pore water DOM across different marine …

F Schmidt, BP Koch, T Goldhammer, M Elvert… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2017 - Elsevier
Dissolved organic matter (DOM) in marine sediment pore waters derives largely from
decomposition of particulate organic matter and its composition is influenced by various …

Evolution of the plankton paleome in the Black Sea from the Deglacial to Anthropocene

MJL Coolen, WD Orsi, C Balkema… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
The complex interplay of climate shifts over Eurasia and global sea level changes
modulates freshwater and saltwater inputs to the Black Sea. The dynamics of the hydrologic …

Late glacial to Holocene climate and sedimentation history in the NW Black Sea

A Bahr, F Lamy, H Arz, H Kuhlmann, G Wefer - Marine Geology, 2005 - Elsevier
Gravity cores from the continental slope in the northwestern Black Sea were studied using
high-resolution stable isotope, grain size and XRF-scanning data. The measurements …

Mediterranean overflow over the last 250 kyr: freshwater forcing from the tropics to the ice sheets

FJ Sierro, DA Hodell, N Andersen… - Paleoceanography …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
To investigate past changes in the Mediterranean Overflow Water (MOW) to the Atlantic, we
analyzed the strength of the MOW and benthic δ13C along the last 250 kyr at Integrated …

Phylogeography of Cerastoderma glaucum (Bivalvia: Cardiidae) across Europe: a major break in the Eastern Mediterranean

R Nikula, R Väinölä - Marine Biology, 2003 - Springer
Molecular variation of the lagoon cockle Cerastoderma glaucum (Poiret, 1789) was
examined across the species range along European coasts, from the northern Baltic to the …

[HTML][HTML] Compilation of geophysical, geochronological, and geochemical evidence indicates a rapid Mediterranean-derived submergence of the Black Sea's shelf and …

AG Yanchilina, WBF Ryan, JF McManus, P Dimitrov… - Marine Geology, 2017 - Elsevier
Our knowledge of rate and processes in which semi-enclosed environments alternate from
lacustrine to marine is commonly limited because of the paucity of specific proxies for sea …

A revised calendar age for the last reconnection of the Black Sea to the global ocean

G Soulet, G Ménot, G Lericolais, E Bard - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2011 - Elsevier
During the last decade, a debate arose regarding the timing and pattern of the last
reconnection of the Black Sea “Lake” with the global ocean. On a geochemical basis, the …