ABSTRACT The Aegean Sea is a region of special interest for the Mediterranean
oceanographic community, as one of the densewater formation sites of the Mediterranean …

Stratigraphic analysis of Late Quaternary sediments of the Sea of Marmara Basin (SMB)
indicates that it was a freshwater lake during the late glacial to ca 12,000 yr BP, depositing …

Over a wide area of the eastern Mediterranean basin, two Mn-rich layers have been
observed above the most recent sapropel (S1), one immediately above the sapropel top and …

Throughout its geologic history, the Black Sea experienced major sea level changes
accompanied by severe environmental modifications, including geomorphologic reshaping …

The enhanced accumulation of organic matter in Eastern Mediterranean sapropels and their
unusually low δ 15 N values have been attributed to either enhanced nutrient availability …

Quantitative analyses of coccolithophores, planktonic foraminifers, dinoflagellate cysts and
pollen assemblages were carried out on shallow (NS-14) and deeper (NS-40) sediment …

Abstract The Jurassic to Holocene record of black shale deposition in the Tethys‐
Mediterranean region is unrivalled by that of any other ocean basin, either in land sections …

A working hypothesis is proposed to account for the present accumulation of brines in
isolated pockets of the ocean floor and for the formation of the underlying organic and metal …

Seventeen eastern Mediterranean Pliocene sapropels from ODP Sites 964, 966, 967 and
969, some of which are coeval, have been analysed for their geochemistry. The sapropels …

Not only the occurrence of distinct organic-rich intervals (sapropels), but also the relative
contents of key major and minor elements and isotopes in the sediments of the eastern …