Investigations Of The Floor Of The Black Sea

That shoreline lies 500 feet below the black sea s current level and the sediment just above it contains the.

Investigations of the floor of the black sea.

After three field seasons the black sea maritime archaeological project is drawing to a close but the things the team has discovered on the sea floor will keep researchers busy for a generation. Marine archaeologists have found the first evidence to suggest the floor of the black sea had been inhabited about 7 500 years ago until it was inundated with a massive influx from the mediterranean. Investigation of the floor of the black sea a saltwater sea connected with the mediterranean sea by a narrow channel and remote from other seas has revealed deposits of freshwater shells dating from 5500 b c. Summary of electromagnetic investigations in the western part of the black sea.

They proposed that a catastrophic inflow of mediterranean seawater into the black sea freshwater lake occurred at 7 150 14 c years bp 7550 calendar years bp. On an ancient shoreline. Two geoelectric models of the transition zone between the continent and the black sea basin were constructed from a variety of independent exploratory methods using natural electromagnetic fields. Before that date glacial meltwater had turned the black and caspian seas into vast freshwater lakes draining into the aegean sea.

That shoreline lies 500 feet below the black sea s current level and the sediment just above it contains the.