The Black Sea Flood Question: Changes in Coastline, Climate, and Human Settlement

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Yanko-Hombach, Valentina (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Gilbert, Allan S. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Panin, Nicolae (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Dolukhanov, Pavel M. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.
• Θέματα: Earth sciences.; Climate change.; Geochemistry.; Paleontology.; Oceanography.; Archaeology.; Earth Sciences.; Earth Sciences, general.; Climate Change Management and Policy.

Stimulated by "Noah’s Flood Hypothesis" proposed by W. Ryan and W. Pitman in which a catastrophic inundation of the Pontic basin was linked to the biblical story, leading experts in Black Sea research (including oceanography, marine geology, paleoclimate, paleoenvironment, archaeology, and...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• General
• 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
• Principal Flood Scenarios
• Status of the Black Sea flood hypothesis
• The Marmara Sea Gateway since ~16 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
• Research in the Northern Sector
• 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
• Research in the Western Sector
• 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
• Research in the Southern Sector
• 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
• Research in the Eastern Sector
• 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
• Research in the Mediterranean
• 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.