title: Chronology of the Karangat Transgression of the Black Sea by Luminescence Dating
abstract: At the beginning of the Late Pleistocene within the modern Azov-Black Sea basin the Karangat transgression developed synchronously with the interglacial transgression of the world ocean. Based on the analysis of faunal complexes, the basin was characterized as the warmest and deepest basin of the Late Pleistocene with water salinity much higher than the salinity of the modern Black Sea. The most complete sequence of transgression sediments was found in the Eltigen section, located on the western
journal: Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk Seriya Geograficheskaya