Is the abrupt drowning of the Black Sea shelf at 7150yrbp a myth? (original) (raw)

AN ABRUPT DROWNING OF THE BLACK SEA SHELF AT 7.5 Kyr BP. Ryan William B. F., Walter C. Pitman, Candace O. Major, Kazimieras Shimkus, Vladamir Moskalenko, Glenn A. Jones, Petko Dimitrov, Naci Gorür, Mehmet Sakinç, Hüseyin Yüce. 1997. GEO-ECO-MARINA

AN ABRUPT DROWNING OF THE BLACK SEA SHELF AT 7.5 Kyr BP, 1997

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 7.5 kyr BP, saltwater poured through this spiltway to refill the and submerge, in less than a year, more than 100,000 km2 of its exposed continental shelf.

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