Abstract
New results of geomorphological, seismoacoustic, and lithological investigations on the upper continental slope off the Arkhipo-Osipovka Settlement are presented. Here, a large submarine slump was discovered by seismic survey in 1998. The assumed slump body, up to 200 m thick, rises 50–60 m above the valley floor that cuts the slope. Recent semiliquid mud that overlies laminated slope sediments with possible slump deformations flows down in the valley thalweg. Radiocarbon age inversion recorded in a Holocene sediment section of shelf facies recovered from the upper slope points to the gravity dislocation of sediments.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
References
Aibulatov, N.A., Dinamika tverdogo veshchestva v shel’fovoi zone (Dynamics of Solid Matter in the Shelf Zone), Leningrad: Gidrometeoizdat, 1990.
Esin, N.V., Glebov, A.Yu., and Evsyukov, Yu.D., The Pleistocene-Holocene Evolution of Shelf Surface in the Northeastern Black Sea, Byull. Mosk. O-va Ispyt. Prir., Otd. Geol., 1986, vol. 61, no. 5, pp. 49–55.
Esin, N.V., Ismagilev, D.M., and Shlezinger, A.E., Truncations and Incisions on Plaeoslopes of the Black Sea Basin, Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR, 1987, vol. 293, no. 6, pp. 256–259.
Esin, N.V., Peshkov, V.I., and Shlezinger, A.E., Seafloor Abrasion by Sediments, Geomorfologiya, 1991, no. 2, pp. 64–67.
Ivanova, E.V., Murdmaa, I.O., Tchepalyga, A.L., et al., Holocene Sea-Level Oscillations and Environmental Changes on the Eastern Black Sea Shelf, Paleogeogr., Paleoclim., Paleoecol. (in press).
Moskalenko, V.N., Landslide Processes and Sedimentary Avalanches on the Slope of the Caucasus, Nauka Kubani, 2000, no. 4, pp. 33–37.
Moskalenko, V.N. and Shimkus, K.M., On the Role of Large Landslide Features, Olistostreams and Olistostromes in the Late Cenozoic Sedimentation of the Black Sea, Okeanologiya, 1976, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 655–660.
Murdmaa, I.O., Ivanova, E.V., Levchenko, O.V., et al., Postglacial Events on the Northeastern Black Sea Shelf, in Aktual’nye problemy okeanologii (Topical Problems of Oceanology) Laverov, N.P., Ed., Moscow: Nauka, 2003, pp. 273–297.
Polyakov, A.S., Dynamics of the Late Quaternary Sedimentation at the Northeastern Margin of the Black Sea, Geologiya, 1997, no. 6, pp. 21–32.
Shimkus, K.M., Moskalenko, V.N., Evsyukov, Yu.D., et al., The Role of Neotectonics, Landslides, and Erosional Accumulation in the Formation of the Caucasian Continental Margin, in Kompleksnye issledovaniya severo-vostochnoi chasti Chernogo morya (Integrated Surveys in the Northeastern Black Sea), Zatsepin, A.G. and Flint, M.V., Eds., Moscow: Nauka, 2002, pp. 402–416.
Shimkus, K.M., Rusakov, V.Yu., and Lukashin, V.N., Turbidity Flows and Their Composition in the Caucasus Region of the Black Sea, in Geologiya morei i okeanov (Geology of Seas and Oceans), Moscow: Inst. Ocean. Ross. Akad. Nauk, 1999, vol. 1, pp. 159–160.
Torgunakov, A.V., Merklin, L.R., Shimkus, K.M., et al., New Ideas on the Structure of the Caucasus Sea Shelf between the Arkhipo-Osipovka Settlement to the Dzhubga Settlement (Based on High-Resolution Acoustic Profiling Data), in Kompleksnye issledovaniya severo-vostochnoi chasti Chernogo morya (Integrated Surveys in the Northeastern Black Sea), Zatsepin, A.G. and Flint, M.V., Eds., Moscow: Nauka, 2002, pp. 358–367.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Additional information
Original Russian Text © V.N. Moskalenko, I.O. Murdmaa, V.I. Artemenko, N.V. Esin, O.V. Levchenko, E.V. Platonova, 2006, published in Litologiya i Poleznye Iskopaemye, 2006, No. 2, pp. 208–216.
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Moskalenko, V.N., Murdmaa, I.O., Artemenko, V.I. et al. Slumping processes on the Caucasian continental slope of the Black Sea. Lithol Miner Resour 41, 187–194 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0024490206020076
Received:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S0024490206020076