WHOI geologist Liviu Giosan at work on a core in WHOI's McLean lab. Giosan
and his colleagues used cores from the
delta of the Danube River, which empties into the Black Sea, to
reconstruct sea level for the Black Sea and determine if it was
catastrophically flooded around 9,400 years ago. Their work showed that
flood occurred at all, it was much
smaller than previously proposed by other researchers.
(Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)[back]
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