The Black Sea flood question : changes in coastline, climate and human settlement /

The Black Sea flood question : changes in coastline, climate and human settlement / edited by Valentina Yanko-Hombach ... [et al.]. - Dordrecht : Springer, c2007. - xxviii, 971 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Oxic, suboxic, and anoxic conditions in the Black Sea / Molluscan paleoecology in the reconstruction of coastal changes / Climate modeling results for the Circum-Pontic Region from the late Pleistocene to the mid-Holocene / Status of the Black Sea flood hypothesis / The Marmara Sea Gateway since 1̃6 ky BP : non-catastrophic causes of paleoceanographic events in the Black Sea at 8.4 and 7.15 ky BP / The late glacial great flood in the Ponto-Caspian basin / Controversy over Noah's flood in the Black Sea : geological and foraminiferal evidence from the shelf / On the post-glacial changes in the level of the Black Sea / The post-glacial transgression of the Black Sea / Climate dynamics, sea-level change, and shoreline migration in the Ukrainian sector of the Circum-Pontic Region / The Middle Paleolithic and early Upper Paleolithic in the northern Black Sea region / Environment, sea-level changes, and human migrations in the northern Pontic area during late Pleistocene and Holocene times / Holocene Mediterranization of the southern Crimean vegetation : paleoecological records, regional climate change, and possible non-climatic influences / Pontic-Caspian Mesolithic and Early Neolithic societies at the time of the Black Sea flood : a small audience and small effects / Fluctuations in the level of the Black Sea and Mesolithic settlement of the northern Pontic area / The northwestern Black Sea : climatic and sea-level changes in the Late Quaternary / Sea-level fluctuations and coastline migration in the northwestern Black Sea area over the last 18 ky based on high-resolution lithological-genetic analysis of sediment architecture / Water-level fluctuations in the Black Sea since the last glacial maximum / Archaeological and paleontological evidence of climate dynamics, sea-level change, and coastline migration in the Bulgarian sector of the Circum-Pontic Region / Dendrochronology of submerged Bulgarian sites / The Neolithization of the north Pontic area and the Balkans in the context of the Black Sea floods / Holocene changes in the level of the Black Sea : consequences at a human scale / Morphotectonic development of the southern Black Sea region and the Bosphorus channel / Sea-level changes modified the Quaternary coastlines in the Marmara region, northwestern Turkey : what about tectonic movements? / Sea-level changes during the late Pleistocene-Holocene on the southern shelves of the Black Sea / The frozen Bosphorus and its paleoclimatic implications based on a summary of the historical data / Coastal changes of the Black Sea and Sea of Marmara in archaeological perspective / Submerged paleoshorelines in the southern and western Black Sea-implications for inundated prehistoric archaeological sites / New evidence for the emergence of a maritime Black Sea economy / Holocene sea-level changes of the Black Sea / Sea-level changes and coastline migrations in the Russian sector of the Black Sea : application to the Noah's flood hypothesis / Language dispersal from the Black Sea region / Timing of the last Mediterranean Sea-Black Sea connection from isostatic models and regional sea-level data / Climatic changes in the Eastern Mediterranean from the last glacial maximum to the late Holocene / Climate, sea level, and culture in the Eastern Mediterranean 20 ky to the present / James W. Murray, Keith Stewart, Steven Kassakian, Marta Krynytzky and Doug DiJulio -- Daniela Basso and Cesare Corselli -- Alexander V. Kislov and Pavel M. Toropov -- William B. F. Ryan -- Richard N. Hiscott, Ali E. Aksu, Peta J. Mudie, Michael A. Kaminski, Teofilo Abrajano, Dogan Yasar and Andre Rochon -- Andrei L. Chepalyga -- Valentina V. Yanko-Hombach -- Pavel N. Kuprin and Valentin M. Sorokin -- Valery I. Shmuratko -- Yuri Shuisky -- Viktor P. Chabai -- Pavel M. Dolukhanov and Konstantin K. Shilik -- Carlos E. Cordova -- David W. Anthony -- Vladimir N. Stanko -- Nicolae Panin and Irina Popescu -- Evgeny G. Konikov -- Gilles Lericolais, Irina Popescu, Francois Guichard, Speranta-Maria Popescu and Laurence Manolakakis -- Mariana Filipova-Marinova -- Peter Ian Kuniholm, Maryanne W. Newton and Bernd Kromer -- Valentin A. Dergachev and Pavel M. Dolukhanov -- Douglass W. Bailey -- Yucel Yilmaz -- Hayrettin Koral -- Oya Algan, Mustafa Ergin, Seref Keskin, Erkan Gokasan, Bedri Alpar, Demet Ongan and Elmas Kirci-Elmas -- Vural Yavuz, Naki Akcar and Christian Schluchter -- Mehmet Ozdogan -- Dwight F. Coleman and Robert D. Ballard -- Owen P. Doonan -- Igor P. Balabanov -- Alexander Yu. Glebov and Sergey K. Shel'ting -- Johanna Nichols -- Kurt Lambeck, Dorit Sivan and Anthony Purcell -- Arie S. Issar -- Avraham Ronen. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35.

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Geology--Black Sea.
Geology--Black Sea Region.
Geology, Stratigraphic--Quaternary
Coast changes--Black Sea Region.
Paleoclimatology--Black Sea Region.
Géologie--Noire, Région de la mer.
Géologie--Noire, Mer.
Environmental sciences
Geochemistry
Oceanography
Paleontology
Climatic changes
Archaeology
Environment
Geosciences, general
Climate Change
Geochemistry
Oceanography
Paleontology
Archaeology


Black Sea--History.
Noire, Région de la mer--Histoire.
Noire, Mer--Histoire.


History
History.

QE350.22.B55 / B63 2007

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QE350.22.B55 / B63 2007