Late Pleistocene climatic events reflected in the Caspian Sea geological history (based on drilling data)

The Eurasian steppe belt: Status quo, origin and evolutionary history

“…The steppe belt also faced significant longitudinal splits during the ice ages. These were caused by transgressions of the Caspian Sea north to the southern Ural Mountains and the Volga-Kama basin (Dolukhanov et al, 2009;Tudryn et al, 2013;Yanina et al, 2018, and literature cited therein), see Table 6. Ice damming of the Ob -Irtysh -Tobol river system by northern glaciers advancing far to the South followed by backwaters reaching the foothills of the Kazakhstan Highlands and of the Altai Mountains was another factor (Arkhipov, Volkova, 1994;Arkhipov et al, 1995Arkhipov et al, , 1999Tudryn et al, 2013).…”

“…Major events during the Late Pleistocene in northern Eurasia are summarized in Table 8. The listed essentials are based mainly on Golubeva (1979), Frenzel (1992), Grichuk (1992), Akhmetiev et al (1999), Arkhipov et al (1999), Fradkina et al (1999a, Korotky et al (1999), Velichko et al (1999), Chlachula (2001aChlachula ( , b, 2010, Shichi et al (2007), Tarasov et al (2009), Felauer et al (2012), and Yanina et al (2018).…”

Toward an understanding of human responses to environmental change in the Caspian-Black Sea-Mediterranean Corridors (IGCP 610 final report)

“…The project established a series of new data, such as: (1) local stratigraphic and geochronological scales assembled into a regional one with a purpose of correlating the major geological and environmental events in human prehistory and history with global environmental changes (Yanina et al, 2018;; (2) chronostratigraphic correlation of the Ponto-Caspian and Mediterranean basins for the reconstruction of water exchange and the first peopling of Europe (Chepalyga, 2018); (3) dinoflagellate marker species of the relic Paratethyan seas: Pannonian to Caspian basins (Mudie et al, 2018); (4) the southern Levant caves as window to out of Africa hominin migration during Quaternary (Frumkin et al, 2018); (5) Eastern Paratethys -Mediterranean connections during the Neogene and Quaternary (Popov et al, 2018); (6) Adjustment theory in the study of human responses to global climate change in the Northwestern Black Sea region at the Pleistocene-Holocene boundary (Smyntyna, 2017); (7) a set of regional paleogeographic and geological maps (Popov et al, 2018); (8) a model for the processes of Caspian-Mediterranean corridor formation and Paratethys Sea-Lake degradation as well as a model for the filling of the Black Sea basin by Mediterranean salt water during the Holocene (Esin et al, 2015).…”

Environmental Evolution of the Caspian Sea in the Conditions of Global Climate Changes

“…В скважинах ательские образования перекрыты сложно построенной толщей хвалынских осадков (Безродных и др., 2015; Yanina et al, 2018). В ее основании залегает слой ракушечно-песчаных отложений до 5 м мощностью.…”

“…Малакофаунистические исследования голоценовых отложений разных районов Каспийского региона показали первое появление этого вида в осадках второй стадии новокаспийской трансгрессии и его постепенное распространение и увеличение численности (Янина и др., 2011;Yanina et al, 2018). Авторы считают проникновение Cerastoderma glaucum в Каспий из новочерноморского бассейна Понта обязанным человеку.…”