New finds of Karangat deposits in the eastern part of the Black Sea

Abstract

The sections of boreholes and sediment cores in the Taman shelf area and on the Caucasian continental slope, which uncovered shallow and deep-water facies of the interglacial Karangate horizon, were studied. The shallow-water sediments include clayey and sandy-shell varieties containing stenohaline marine molluscan fauna. Deep-water sediments are represented by sapropelic and coccolithic layers with a marine flora of diatom algae and coccolithophorids.