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An abrupt drowning of the Black Sea shelf

✍ Scribed by William B.F. Ryan; Walter C. Pitman III; Candace O. Major; Kazimieras Shimkus; Vladamir Moskalenko; Glenn A. Jones; Petko Dimitrov; Naci Gorür; Mehmet Sakinç; Hüseyin Yüce

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1997
Tongue
English
Weight
751 KB
Volume
138
Category
Article
ISSN
0025-3227

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✦ Synopsis

During latest Quaternary glaciation, the Black Sea became a giant freshwater lake. The surface of this lake drew down to levels more than 100 m below its outlet. When the Mediterranean rose to the Bosporus sill at 7,150 yr BP', saltwater poured through this spillway to refill the lake and submerge, catastrophically, more than 100,000 km' of its exposed continental shelf. The permanent drowning of a vast terrestrial landscape may possibly have accelerated the dispersal of early neolithic foragers and farmers into the interior of Europe at that time.

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