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Thermal evolution of the lithosphere of buried structures of the deep-water basin of the Black Sea

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The GALO system for basin modeling is applied for numerical reconstruction of the thermal history of the lithosphere of the Western Basin and the Shatsky and Andrusov rises in the Black Sea. The modeling showed that the variant of the thermal evolution of the lithosphere of the region that was used by us for the Eastern Basin in our previous study is also applicable to the thermal evolution of the lithosphere of various tectonically different structures of the deep-water part of the Black Sea. These structures include both the Western and Eastern basins of the sea characterized by a granite-free crust formed in the course of the back-arc spreading and the Shatsky and Andrusov rises with the continental type of crust. The proposed version of the lithosphere evolution in the deep-water part of the Black Sea implies the initial stage of quasi-rift heating in the Upper Cretaceous and the three-staged thermal activation of the plate in the Cenozoic accompanied by three successive stages of crustal thinning. The latter resulted in the gradual deepening of the sea down to the present-day depth of 2.2 km.

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    Yu. I. Galushkin, A. A. Bulychev & Al. A. Schreider

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Original Russian Text © Yu.I. Galushkin, A.A. Schreider, A.A. Bulychev, Al.A. Schreider, 2007, published in Okeanologiya, 2007, Vol. 47, No. 5, pp. 770–782.

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Galushkin, Y.I., Schreider, A.A., Bulychev, A.A. et al. Thermal evolution of the lithosphere of buried structures of the deep-water basin of the Black Sea. Oceanology 47, 718–729 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0001437007050141

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