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On the basis of geologic-geomorphologic studies, an alternative concept regarding the evolution of the Northern Caspian Sea Region and the adjacent areas in the boundary of the Pleistocene-Holocene is presented. A supposition is made about the existence of a large lagoon in the North Caspian Region that the Volga River emptied into forming a delta. Later, water from the lagoon flowed as a “stratum” stream into the Black Sea through the Manych Strait. A conclusion is reached that the Baer mounds were formed on the bottom of this stream.
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Original Russian Text © E.N. Badyukova, 2010, published in Okeanologiya, 2010, Vol. 50, No. 6, pp. 1002–1009.
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Badyukova, E.N. Evolution of the Northern Caspian Sea Region and the Volga delta in the late Pleistocene-Holocene. Oceanology 50, 953–960 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0001437010060159
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