scholarly journals Deep structure of the North-East part of the Black Sea based on the results of seismogravity modeling

Author(s):  
Yu.V. Kozlenko ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-30
Author(s):  
Faize Sarış

AbstractThis paper analyses extreme precipitation characteristics of Turkey based on selected WMO climate change indices. The indices – monthly total rainy days (RDays); monthly maximum 1-day precipitation (Rx1day); simple precipitation intensity index (SDII); and monthly count of days when total precipitation (represented by PRCP) exceeds 10 mm (R10mm) – were calculated for 98 stations for the 38-year overlapping period (1975–2012). Cluster analysis was applied to evaluate the spatial characterisation of the annual precipitation extremes. Four extreme precipitation clusters were detected. Cluster 1 corresponds spatially to Central and Eastern Anatolia and is identified with the lowest values of the indices, except rainy days. Cluster 2 is concentrated mainly on the west and south of Anatolia, and especially the coastal zone, and can be characterised with the lowest rainy days, and high and moderate values of other indices. These two clusters are the most prominent classes throughout the country, and include a total of 82 stations. Cluster 3 is clearly located in the Black Sea coastal zone in the north, and has high and moderate index values. Two stations on the north-east coast of the Black Sea region are identified as Cluster 4, which exhibits the highest values among all indices. The overall results reveal that winter months and October have the highest proportion of precipitation extremes in Turkey. The north-east part of the Black Sea region and Mediterranean coastal area from the south-west to the south-east are prone to frequent extreme precipitation events.


2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 189-198
Author(s):  
Ion Isaia

Abstract This work is meant to demonstrate that, in the special synoptic conditions, on the surface of the Black Sea, a baric depression is being formed. This depression is formed when the Black Sea's water temperature is higher than the surrounding continental ground's temperature. There are situations when the baric depression of the Black Sea occurs because of the consequences of the movement of another baric depression from the east of the Mediterranean Sea to its north-east side. Due to the high atmospheric pressure of the continental zone that's surrounding the Black Sea, the baric depression will get a retrograde movement, towards the north or northwest. Eventually, this depression occludes in the eastern continental zone of Europe or even near the Baltic Sea. During a retrograde movement of a baric depression, the atmospheric precipitations will fall in big quantities, in many situations, causing floods.


Author(s):  
Victorita Radulescu

Black Sea represents a direct link between the European Union, EU candidate countries and some Asian countries such as Russia, Georgia, etc. During the last decades, the Black Sea has been confronted with unexpected environmental problems. In the south part of the Romanian seashore has appeared erosion, in the North-East part of the Black Sea appeared a massive algae development, followed by modification of the maritime biological balance. In parallel, the maritime water parameters have been changed, partly due to the water discharged from the main rivers as Danube, Dnieper, Dniester, partly from the amount of freshwater from deep currents new appeared in the last decades, and partly due to the impact of the pollutant sources. Firstly, are mentioned some data, based on the local measurements and registered data, which underlines the actual situation, referring at the existing sources of pollution, the hydrocarbons and ions concentration, etc. with immediate consequences on the local equilibrium of the marine bio-system. The registered Turkish accidents with spilled oil briefly mentioned, were followed in a short term by a process of nitrification, with many consequences. Next are presented the appeared modifications, registered in the Black Sea fauna, some endangered species, correlated with the simultaneous apparition of some invasive species. Finally, some conclusions and references are presented.


2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-44
Author(s):  
Vladimir Pokalyuk ◽  
Igor Lomakin ◽  
Valentyn Verkhovtsev ◽  
Vladimir Kochelab

Modern high-precision global digital 3-d models of the relief of the continents and the ocean floor (SRTM, GEBCO) are the objective basis to clarify the structure and features of the organization of the planetary fault network of of the Black Sea region and adjacent areas of the Mediterranean mobile belt and surrounding platform areas, to find out the location of the main transregional supermegalineaments forming the deep structural-tectonic framework of the territory. A complete consistency of the structural plan of faults and fault zones within the sea areas and continental surroundings is established. The structural position of the Black Sea basin as a whole is determined by its location at the intersection area (superposition, interference) of the diagonal (subdiagonal) transcontinental tectonolinament belts: the north-west – Elba-Zagros, Caucasus-Kopetdag, and the north-east – Atlas- Black Sea. The absence of large-scale lateral displacements at the intersection nodes of differently oriented supermegalineament systems indicates the relative autonomous stationarity and inheritance of the formation of the lyneament framework during the entire Mezozoic-Cenozoic and relatively low-shear nature of its implementation. This feature of the Black Sea region structural pattern significantly limits the possibility of using neomobilistic geodynamic models to explain the history of the geological development of the region. The strict consistency and orderliness of the lineament framework can be ensured only by global planetary factors associated with the influence of the rotational regime of the Earth's shells on the stress distribution in the lithosphere.


2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 35-41
Author(s):  
S. A. Seregin ◽  
E. V. Popova

Metazoan microzooplankton plays a crucial role in the feeding of larvae and juveniles of many fish species, including commercial. The aim of the work was to study the metazoan microzooplankton abundance and species composition in the waters of North-East of the Black Sea, for which such information is rare. Bathometric water samples for the research were taken in 2 water areas in the Kerch sea area: on the shelf (I) and in continental slope waters (II). The concentration of plankton in the surface layer above large depths was almost 2 times higher and the proportion of neritic species was much lower compared to the waters over the shelf. The character of the microzooplankton abundance vertical distribution depended on the temperature and salinity gradients expression. Compared with the coastal waters of the southern coast of Crimea general decline of the abundance with depth is much more pronounced over the continental slope. Copepods of the genus Acartia and Centropages ponticus were dominating in the upper layers of the water; a recent invader in the Black Sea Oithona davisae played a significant role in the shelf waters, also. Abundant copepod species in the waters under thermocline were Oithona similis, Acartia clausi, Paracalanus parvus; Rotifera dominated in non-crustacean plankton. Newly obtained and previously published data indicate an increasing trend of total micrometazoans abundance in the Crimean Black Sea waters in recent years.


Author(s):  
Т.В. Гиоргобиани

В статье рассмотрены условия формирования складчатой системы Большого Кавказа в альпийскую эпоху. Показано, что главная зональная линейная складчатая структура региона была сформирована на ранне- и среднеальпийской стадиях развития в результате проявления батской и пиренейской фаз складчатости. Установлено, что причиной складкообразования было активное столкновение Черноморско-Закавказского микроконтинента на юго-западе с пассивной окраиной Большого Кавказа. Определено, что позднеальпийская стадия в регионе проходила в условиях субмеридионального тангенциального давления, во время проявления плиоцен-четвертичных фаз складчатости. В это время на Большой Кавказ воздействовал не целостный Черноморско-Закавказский микроконтинент, а слагающие его мелкие плиты и блоки-шоли. Выяснено, что они в процессе тектогенеза перемещались и косо вдвигались в складчатую систему Большого Кавказа, вызывая преобразование первичной структуры и возникновение интерференционной складчатости. В результате повторного деформирования отдельных участков региона в его пределах образовалась неоднородная складчатая структура. Изучена основная особенность складчатой системы Большого Кавказа, выраженная структурной неоднородностью складчатости в поперечном и продольном направлениях. Установлено, что она отражает поэтапную и разноплановую деформацию отдельных участков, возникающую в результате последовательного проявления в регионе локальной и региональной геодинамики микроконтинента, а также связанных с ними общих и частных механизмов его формирования. Структурный анализ морфологии складчатости БК действительно показал неравномерную дислоцированность его – С-З и Ю-В сегментов, сложенных в основном ранне- и среднеальпийскими структурами, выраженную в разной степени осложненности коллизионными деформациями. Так, в пределах мальм-эоценового структурного этажа С-З Кавказа, раннеальпийская структура которого меньше всех остальных сегментов усложнена коллизионными деформациями, четко проявлена латеральная асимметричная зональность его складчатой структуры.  Она выражена в последовательной смене с юго-запада на северо-восток интенсивной линейной сильно сжатой складчатости линейными гребневидными, а затем слабо вытянутыми типичными брахиморфными складками, переходящими, в свою очередь, в полого наклонную на северо-восток моноклиналь The article considers the conditions of formation of folded system of the Greater Caucasus in the Alpine Epoch. It is shown that main zonal linear folded structure of the region was formed at the early and middle Alpine stages of the evolution in the result of manifestation of Bathonian and Pyrenean stages of folding. It was established that the cause of the folding was an active collision of the Black Sea-Transcaucasian microcontinent in the south-west with the passive margin of the Greater Caucasus. It was also determined that the Late Alpine stage in the region took place under the conditions ofsubmeridional tangential stress, during the Pliocene-Quarternary folding phases. During this period the Greater Caucasus was affected not by the whole Black Sea-Transcaucasian microcontinent, but by its smaller plates and blocks. It was found out that during the process of tectogenesis they drifted and obliquely moved into the folded system of the Greater Caucasus, causing the transformation of the initial structure and the occurrence of interferential folding. In the result of repeated deformation of separate areas of the region the heterogeneous folded structure was formed. The main feature of the folded structures of the Greater Caucasus (expressed by a structural heterogeny in transversal and longitudinal directions) was studied. It was determined that it reflects the gradual and diverse deformation of individual sections, resulting from the consistent manifestation of the local and regional geodynamics of the microcontinent, as well as the common and specific mechanisms of its formation associated with them. The structural analysis of the morphology of folding of the Great Caucasus really showed its uneven dislocation, i.e. the N-W and S-E of the segments, composed mainly of early and middle Alpine structures, expressed in varying degrees of complication by collisional deformations. So, within the Malm-Eocene structural floor of the northwestern Caucasus, the Early Alpine structure of which is less than all the other segments, is complicated by collimated deformations, the lateral asymmetric zonality of its folded structure is clearly manifested. It is expressed in a successive change from the south-west to the north-east of intensive linear highly compressed folding with linear ridge-like, and then slightly elongated typical brachymorphic folds, which turn into a hollow sloping to the north-east monocline


2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vasile Rata ◽  
Eugen Rusu

The problem of pollution is a topical issue at global, regional but also at the local level. Starting from this idea, the question arises whether the coastal region in the North-East of the Black Sea is affected by the emissions resulting from the combustion of marine fuels in large ship engines, which manage to set in motion floating buildings intended for the transport of goods and passengers. This paper wants to evaluate the variation of the air quality indicators in the coastal area of Romania, taking into account the contribution that the ships by their number, size and destination can have on these qualitative factors. Such an approach is needed from the perspective of the more than 500,000 inhabitants possibly affected by the effects with which this industry is accompanied. As the Black Sea active fleet is already old, as its ages year by year, the premises for the need for this study can be set up. As in other regions, drastic measures are taken in order to reduce the effects of pollution due to such economic activity, the assessment of the effects that this industry produces in inhabited areas becomes necessary. In order to carry out this study, air quality data from the database provided by the National Air Quality Monitoring Network of the Workshop on the calitateaer.ro site were evaluated.


Author(s):  
V.N. Maslova ◽  
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E.N. Voskresenskaya ◽  
A.V. Yurovsky ◽  
V.Yu. Zhuravsky ◽  
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The aim of the paper is to study the surface and mid – tropospheric synoptic fields, the location of trajectories and of the deep cyclones centers for different selected types of storm for the cases if the wave heights are of at least 5 m. The sets of cyclone parameters in the Black Sea region were analysef within the 37°-50° N, 27°-45° E. Cyclones and their main parameters were determined using 4-term NCEP / NCAR reanalysis data sets on the 1000 and 500 hPa geopotential height (GPH) in 1951-2017. Bardin’s methodology was used for calculation. Deep cyclones were identified by the criterion of exceeding the upper 75% quartile threshold of the depth (≥40 gpm) and intensity (≥16.8 gpm) of cyclones. It was done by analogy with the method used earlier by the authors to calculate extreme precipitation and statistical characteristics of storms. In addition, we used the author’s method of objective tracking using spline interpolation on the bases of sea surface pressure from the same NCEP / NCAR reanalysis. The reason to apply an additional method was the result obtained during the work realisation: about 30% of extreme storms in the region are caused by small local cyclones that occur over the Black sea. however, some of them cannot be determined using method 1 due to the coarser step of isogyps. As a result, the distribution of deep cyclone centers and their trajectories of different storm types at the Northern Black Sea coast for the cases if the wave height of at least 5 m is shown. It is found that storm types depend of synoptic field features. The centers of deep cyclones are concentrated to the North from the Black Sea coast (for Western type 1B), to the Northwest (for mixed type 2A), to the North-East (for mixed type 2B), and to the South-Eeast (for Central type 3).


Author(s):  
Valentina Tagliapietra ◽  
Flavia Riccardo ◽  
Giovanni Rezza

Italy is considered a low incidence country for tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) in Europe. Areas at higher risk for TBE in Italy are geographically clustered in the forested and mountainous regions and provinces in the north east part of the country, as suggested by TBE case series published over the last decade.


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