The late glacial great flood in the Ponto-Caspian basin

Postglacial floodings of the Marmara Sea: molluscs and sediments tell the story

“…This phase corresponds to the transgressive BLate Neoeuxinian^(18-13 ka) of the Black Sea (Arkhangel'skiy and Strakhov 1938;Nevesskaja 1965;Balabanov and Izmailov 1988;Bahr et al 2005Bahr et al , 2006Chepalyga 2007;Svitoch 2010;Yanina 2014). The Ponto-Caspian faunas reported from the Marmara Basin are part of the Late Neoeuxinian overflow.…”

“…The Late Khvalynian Caspian overflow took place at the end of MIS 2 (13-18 ka; Chepalyga 2007;Kislov et al 2014;Arslanov et al 2015) and also resulted in an overspill into the Marmara Sea Basin. This phase corresponds to the transgressive BLate Neoeuxinian^(18-13 ka) of the Black Sea (Arkhangel'skiy and Strakhov 1938;Nevesskaja 1965;Balabanov and Izmailov 1988;Bahr et al 2005Bahr et al , 2006Chepalyga 2007;Svitoch 2010;Yanina 2014).…”

Holocene and late glacial palaeoceanography and palaeolimnology of the Black Sea: Changing sediment provenance and basin hydrography over the past 20,000years

“…Thus, the relative contribution of sediments from the A-Caus and D 3 -Azov regions over the past 8.0 kyrs must have remained rather constant. The modest changes in sea level during that time (Chepalyga, 2007) evidently altered only slightly the relative contributions of the lithogenous sediment fraction from the two source regions.…”

“…As in situ mechanical sorting is not an option for the abyssal sediments within the Black Sea, the depletion of Si, Ti, and Zr in Unit 1, relative to the reference standards ( Fig. 12) and the basin-margin sediments, must reflect the retention of quartz and the heavy minerals in the flooded estuaries and drowned shelves during the high sea level stand of the past 2.72 kyrs (Chepalyga, 2007).…”

Ocean loading effects on stress at near shore plate boundary fault systems

“…The exact timing and mechanism of reconnection are the subject of ongoing research, but it is generally agreed that shortly before marine reconnection, the level of the Black Sea was significantly low (−100 m). Following reconnection the water level rose ∼70 m to the level of the global ocean within a few years to a few hundred years [e.g., Chepalyga, 2007;Hiscott et al, 2007;Major et al, 2006;Ryan, 2007;Ryan et al, 1997]. Either way, loading at the Black Sea happened at least an order of magnitude faster than in the global ocean.…”