@article {110,
	title = {Late Pleistocene{\textendash}Holocene sedimentary records of climate and lake-level changes in Lake Hazar, eastern Anatolia, Turkey},
	journal = {Terrestrial archives of the Mediterranean},
	volume = {302},
	year = {2013},
	note = {id: 2322},
	pages = {123-134},
	abstract = {The sedimentary record of Lake Hazar has been documented by detailed seismo- and chronostratigraphic analyses using high-resolution seismic profiles and sediment cores. In this study, two main seismic stratigraphic units can be confidently correlated with sediment cores using lithology and physical properties. As a result of radiocarbon AMS dating, these sedimentary units presumably cover the period from the late Pleistocene to Holocene. The Holocene sequence of the lake infills can be subdivided into five subunits, each subject to distinctive hydrological and sedimentological processes due to fluctuating lake level. The elevations of these deposits including coastal paleo-terraces provide history of the lake level changes. In Lake Hazar, the maximum lowstand lake level occurred during the transition from the Younger Dryas to Holocene, when the -73 m wave-cut terrace was formed as the main shelf-crossing unconformity surface. The beginning of the Holocene was associated with a abrupt lake level rise and resultant deepening. Analysis of the Lake Hazar terraces has the potential to provide complementary data on the chronology of past lake level and lake volume changes, and their link to past climate change. The continued rising lake level during beginning of the Holocene was modulated by stillstands at -63 m and -56 m, as indicated by broad coastal paleo-terraces across the northern shelf. The main shelf-margin sedimentary system for the Holocene period is composed of three distinct buried deltaic-complexes that were presumably sourced from the K{\"u}rk{\c c}ay{\i} River, the largest input into Lake Hazar. The 3rd millennium crisis at around 3 14C ka BP is recorded in the seismic and core data when the cold and dry climatic condition gave rise to a significant lake level drop.},
	issn = {1040-6182},
	doi = {10.1016/j.quaint.2012.12.024},
	url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618212033915},
	author = {Eri{\c s}, K{\"u}r{\c s}ad Kadir}
}
@article {216,
	title = {Late glacial to Holocene sea-level changes in the Sea of Marmara: new evidence from high-resolution seismics and core studies},
	journal = {Geo-Marine Letters},
	volume = {31},
	year = {2011},
	note = {id: 2113; PT: J; TC: 0; J9: GEO-MAR LETT; UT: WOS:000286334700001},
	pages = {1-18},
	abstract = {The late glacial to Holocene sedimentary record of the northern shelf of the Sea of Marmara (SoM) has been documented by detailed seismo-, chrono-, and biostratigraphic analyses using sub-bottom (Chirp) profiles and sediment cores. During MIS 3 and the main part of MIS 2 (60-15 (14)C ka b.p.), disconnection from the Mediterranean and Black seas together with a dry climate resulted in a regression in the SoM, when the Sea was transformed into a brackish lake. The river incisions below 105 m water depth along the northern shelf took place during the last glacial maximum, when the lake level was modulated by stillstands at -98 and -93 m. The post-glacial freshwater transgressive stage of the Marmara {\textquoteright}Lake{\textquoteright} occurred between 15 and 13.5 (14)C ka b.p., leading to a rise in water level to -85 m by 13.0 (14)C ka b.p., as evidenced by broad wave-cut terraces along the northern shelf. Since 12 (14)C ka b.p., high-frequency sea-level fluctuations have been identified at the SoM entrance to the Strait of A degrees stanbul (SoI). Thus, wave-cut terraces have been recorded at water depths of -76 and -71 m that, according to an age model for core MD04-2750, have ages of 11.5 and 10.5 (14)C ka b.p., respectively. Ancient shoreline at -65 m along the northern shelf presumably formed soon after the Younger Dryas (YD) at ca. 10.1 (14)C ka b.p. Moreover, there is compelling evidence of Holocene outflow from the Sea of Marmara to the Black Sea. At the SoM entrance to the SoI, the existence of bioherms on the reflector surface together with abundant Brizalina spathulata and Protoglobulimina pupoides in a core suggests a return to higher salinities due to strong Mediterranean water incursion into the SoM at similar to 8.8 (14)C ka b.p. This finding is consistent with earlier suggestions that, after the YD, the Black Sea was flooded by outflow from the SoM as a result of global sea-level rise.},
	issn = {0276-0460},
	doi = {10.1007/s00367-010-0211-1},
	author = {Eri{\c s}, K{\"u}r{\c s}ad Kadir and Cagatay, M. N. and Akcer, Sena and Gasperini, Luca and Mart, Yosi}
}
