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Sea of Marmara sediments provide an almost complete record of major palaeo-oceanographic events affecting the Aegean and Black Seas between the late Pleistocene and the Recent. Fluctuating patterns of water mass exchange, resulting from regionally important climatic oscillations, produced the marked differences in lithofacies mapped between the Sea of Marmara and the eastern Mediterranean and Black Seas.
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Stanley, D., Blanpied, C. Late Quaternary water exchange between the eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea. Nature 285, 537–541 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1038/285537a0
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