General Directorate of Mineral Research and Exploration
Abstract
Young sediments in the shelf
areas in the sea of Marmara have some faunal signs of Mediterranean
transgression, Flandrian, developed following the Vürm period. The evolution of
locally tectonic-controlled foraminifera paleobiofacies formed as a result of
this transgression 7.5-3.5 thousand years before present in the triple junction
between entrance of Bosphorus in Northern Marmara Shelf-Mouth of Golden
Horn-Üsküdar indicates that Mediterranean-Black Sea connection in late
Quaternary was accomplished over Bosphorus as a result of
tectonic-transgression association