Geology, geography and global energy

Scientific and Technical Journal

Heterogeneity of the morphostructures on ranges of the northwest part of Black sea

2012. №3, pp. 133-144

Evsyukov Yuriy D. - C.Sc. in Geography,Leading research assistant, Laboratory of geologo-geophysical researches of Southern branch of the P.P.В Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 1g Prostornaya st., Gelendzhik, Krasnodar region, Russia, 353467, В evsgeol@rambler.ru

Rudnev Valeriy I. - Younger research assistant, Laboratory of geologo-geophysical researches of Southern branch of the P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 1g Prostornaya st., Gelendzhik, Krasnodar region, Russia, 353467, В evsgeol@rambler.ru

From existing methods of studying of a relief of a bottom in the seas and oceans are most widely applied: a regional echo sounding (on extended transitions between oceanographic stations) and work on detailed ranges. On rather small areas (from first hundreds to several thousand km2) complication and a variety of forms of a bottom surface, a variety of lithological formations and bedrocks gives the chance to define researches. In produced article results of researches of a relief of a bottom on two differently-great ranges of a northwest part of Black sea are described. At repeated processing of primary materials of an echo sounding corrective amendments in earlier compounded bathymetrical and geomorphological maps are introduced. Survey sea-bottom profiles are resulted. These materials in aggregate with the published geologo-geophysical data demonstrate that heterogeneity morphostructures in the studied area was formed with the assistance of several difficult interreacting relief-formation processes

Key words: Range, Bathymetry, Shelf, Geomorphology, Sedimentations, Neotectonics, Relief-formation, Regression, Transgression.

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