Sedimentary processes on the Crimean continental margin in the Black Sea

Structural specific features of the sedimentary succession on the continental margin of the South Crimea in the Black Sea have been examined in the Yalta Area using geomorphologic, acoustic, and lithologic methods. Alternation of regressive and transgressive sequences has been ascertained in sedimen...

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Published in:Moscow University geology bulletin 2009-02, Vol.64 (1), p.1-9
Main Authors: Sorokin, V. M., Starovoitov, A. V., Roslyakov, A. G.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Brackish
Continental dynamics
Continental margins
Deep sea
Earth and Environmental Science
Earth Sciences
Ecological succession
Geology
Quaternary
Sedimentary geology
Sedimentation & deposition
Sediments
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Summary:Structural specific features of the sedimentary succession on the continental margin of the South Crimea in the Black Sea have been examined in the Yalta Area using geomorphologic, acoustic, and lithologic methods. Alternation of regressive and transgressive sequences has been ascertained in sediment sections formed on the shelf and in the Yalta deep-sea fan due to Quaternary oscillations of the basin level. The analysis of sediment sections resulted in revealing a leading role of sedimentary material transference from upper hypsometric levels to lower ones in the sediment accumulation.
ISSN:0145-8752
1934-8436
DOI:10.3103/S0145875209010013