The history of the postglacial marine flooding of the Black Sea from the Mediterranean Sea is well documented by drastic faunal turnovers, although still highly controversial in details regarding tempo and mode (Ryan et al. 2003; Yanko-Hombach et al. 2007; Giosan et al. 2009 and many others). The paleobiological legacy found in the Black Sea sedimentary record admirably documents that this basin was a lacustrine environment of substantial size (the Late Neoeuxinian Lake: Yanko-Hombach et al. 2007) that somehow abruptly turned into marine conditions as Mediterranean sealevel reached up enough to breach through the Dardanelles and Bosphorus straits. Sedimentary cores collected in the northweswestern Black Sea in the frame of the BLASON project contain an excellent malacological documentation of pre-flood lacustrine and syn- and post-flood marine environments.
From lake to sea: The malacological signature of the inundation.
MORIGI, CATERINA;
2014-01-01
Abstract
The history of the postglacial marine flooding of the Black Sea from the Mediterranean Sea is well documented by drastic faunal turnovers, although still highly controversial in details regarding tempo and mode (Ryan et al. 2003; Yanko-Hombach et al. 2007; Giosan et al. 2009 and many others). The paleobiological legacy found in the Black Sea sedimentary record admirably documents that this basin was a lacustrine environment of substantial size (the Late Neoeuxinian Lake: Yanko-Hombach et al. 2007) that somehow abruptly turned into marine conditions as Mediterranean sealevel reached up enough to breach through the Dardanelles and Bosphorus straits. Sedimentary cores collected in the northweswestern Black Sea in the frame of the BLASON project contain an excellent malacological documentation of pre-flood lacustrine and syn- and post-flood marine environments.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
