Paleoclimate of Eastern Black Sea Region in Turkey and The Importance of Glacial Lakes and Their Sediment Record

Authors : Ceran Şekeryapan

Pages : 8-13

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Publication Date : 2019-12-27

Article Type : Review

Abstract :To be able to make sustainable management plans we should know previous conditions of any region. Natural archives and their preserved proxies are used to track past environmental and climatic changes in time scales longer than instrumental records. Most of the natural archives that have been used to reveal the past are coming from the central, south central and northwestern Anatolia. However, glacial lakes and their sediment in the northeastern part of Turkey are untapped source of information. Here, I will discuss existing knowledge from different natural archives in Anatolia, and in southern Black Sea coast since the Late Glacial and possible future research questions in northeastern part of Turkey.
Keywords : Glacial lakes, paleoclimate, paleolimnology, black sea