Mollusks from the Lower Quaternary Chauda Sediments of the Black Sea. ISSN 0869_5938, Stratigraphy and Geological Correlationстатья
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Аннотация:The analysis of paleontological remains in many samples from the Lower Quaternary Chauda
sediments drilled and cored on the Bulgarian shelf of the Black Sea revealed widespread mollusks of the genera Didacna and Dreissena (Didacna tschaudae guriana, D. tschaudae, D. pleistopleura, D. crassa guriensis, Dreissena rostriformis tschaudae, D. rostriformis abchasica) accompanied by reworked Neogene representatives of the genus Digressodacna. In numerous places of a continental slope and an adjacent deepsea depressions near Crimea and Caucasus the similar mollusc assemblage is described in the redeposited state for the first
time. The composition of palynological spectra and diatom assemblages in shelf sediments indicates climate changes during the Chaudan period. The Chaudan mollusk fauna from the Black Sea sediments, which is lacking Caspian Bakuan species characteristic of the Chauda stratotype, is compositionally close to the mollusk assemblage from basal layers of the Chauda Horizon in the Guriya area of Georgia (“Gurian” Chauda).
These data imply repeated changes in the level of the Chaudan basin between present day isobaths of 30... 50 to 140 m.