T178 “Noah's Flood” and the Late Quaternary Geological and Archaeological History of the Black Sea and Adjacent Basins

Tuesday, 4 November 2003
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Presentations

• 1:30 PM
  EVIDENCE FOR A BLACK SEA FLOODING EVENT
  William B.F. Ryan, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia Univ, Palisades, NY and Namik Çagatay, ITU Maden Fakultesi, Istanbul, N/A and Candace O. Major, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif/Yvette, N/A and Gilles Lericolais, IFREMER, Plouzané, N/A
  64109 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:45 PM
  LATE GLACIAL GREAT FLOOD IN THE BLACK SEA AND CASPIAN SEA
  Andrey Tchepalyga, Moscow, N/A
  63243 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:00 PM
  CONFLUENCE OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND CULTURAL COMPLEXITY IN SOUTHERN MESOPOTAMIA: IMPLICATIONS FOR BIBLICAL FLOOD MYTHOLOGY
  James P. Kennett, Univ of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA and Douglas J. Kennett, Univ of Oregon Eugene, Eugene, N/A
  64052 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:15 PM
  MORPHOTECTONIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE SOUTHERN BLACK SEA REGION AND THE SURROUNDINGS
  Yucel Yilmaz, Kadir Has Univ, Ýstanbul, N/A
  57389 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:30 PM
  "NOAH'S FLOOD" AND THE LATE QUATERNARY HISTORY OF THE BLACK SEA AND ITS ADJACENT BASINS: A CRITICAL OVERVIEW OF THE FLOOD HYPOTHESES
  Valentina Yanko-Hombach, Winnipeg, MB
  58733 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:00 PM
  EARLY HOLOCENE SEA LEVEL CURVE OF THE COAST OF ISRAEL, EAST MEDITERRANEAN
  Dorit Sivan, Univ of Haifa, Haifa, N/A and Kurt Lambeck, The Australian National Univ, Canberra, N/A
  58319 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:15 PM
  THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THE BLACK SEA AND MEDITERRANEAN DURING THE LAST 30 KY
  Oya Algan, Institute of Marine Sciences and Mgnt, Istanbul, N/A
  59900 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:30 PM
  THE BLACK SEA DURING THE LAST 20.000 YEARS: SEA LEVEL, SALINITY AND CLIMATE
  Anton Preisinger, Technical Univ of Vienna, Vienna, N/A and Selma Aslanian, Technical Univ of Vienna, Vienna, N/A
  60152 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:45 PM
  CLIMATIC CHANGES MODIFIED THE QUATERNARY COASTAL LINES IN THE MARMARA REGION, WESTERN PONTICS: WHAT ABOUT ACTIVE TECTONICS?
  Hayrettin Koral, Istanbul University, Istanbul, N/A
  60263 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:00 PM
  THE BLACK SEA FLOOD: ARCHAEOLOGICAL & GEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; A SUMMARY OF THE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE
  Allan S. Gilbert, Fordham Univ, Bronx, NY
  61416 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:15 PM
  WATER EXCHANGE BETWEEN MEDITERRANEAN AND BLACK SEAS DURING LATE GLACIAL-HOLOCENE: EVIDENCE FROM MARMARA AND BLACK SEAS
  M. Namik Çagatay, Faculty of Mining and Eurasian Institute of Earth Sciences, Istanbul, N/A and Naci Görür
  57861 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:30 PM
  HOLOCENE BLACK SEA ENVIRONMENTS ACCORDING TO PALYNOLOGY
  Speranta-Maria Popescu, Univ Claude Bernard - Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, N/A and Martin Head, Univ of Cambridge, Cambridge, N/A and Gilles Lericolais, IFREMER, Plouzané, N/A
  63647 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:45 PM
  WAS THE LAST RAPID SEA CHANGE IN THE BLACK SEA LINKED TO A CATASTROPHIC EVENT RECORDED BY MANKIND ?
  Anita Grunder and Gilles Lericolais, IFREMER, Plouzané, N/A and Madison Myers and Irina Popescu, Univ of Gent, Gent, N/A and Nicolas Panin, GEOECOMAR, Bucurest, N/A and Francois Guichard, CNRS-CEA, Gif-sur-Yvette, N/A and Speranta Popescu, Université Claude Bernard - Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, N/A
  59648 (Technical Sessions)
• 5:00 PM
  STABLE AND RADIOGENIC ISOTOPE CONSTRAINTS ON THE DEGLACIAL HISTORY OF THE BLACK AND MARMARA SEAS
  Candace O. Major, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-sur-Yvette, N/A and William B.F. Ryan, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY and Steven L. Goldstein, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY and Laurent Labeyrie, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-sur-Yvette, N/A and Namik Çagatay, ITU Maden Fakultesi, Istanbul, N/A
  65424 (Technical Sessions)
• 5:15 PM
  LATE GLACIAL FRESHENING OF THE LEVANTINE BASIN: ISOTOPIC EVIDENCE FROM ISKENDERUN BAY
  Silvia Spezzaferri, Univ of Fribourg, Fribourg, N/A and Valentina Yanko-Hombach, Winnipeg, MB and Sebastien Bruchez, Univ of Lausanne, Lausanne, N/A
  62651 (Technical Sessions)