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Early Holocene Marine Flooding of the Black Sea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Elazar Uchupi  and
David A. Ross
Elazar Uchupi
Affiliation:
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 02543
David A. Ross
Affiliation:
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 02543
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Abstract

Echo-sounding data recorded in the Black Sea in 1969 imaged a chain of hills 5- to 150-m high at a depth of 2000–2200 m that resemble hills on the lower continental rise. Like those hills, the features in the western Black Sea may have been created by bottom currents. The easterly flowing currents inferred to have formed the hills may be related to a catastrophic flood of the Black Sea from the Sea of Marmara 7150 yr ago.

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Research Article
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Quaternary Research , Volume 54 , Issue 1 , July 2000 , pp. 68 - 71
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University of Washington

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