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

Year 2019, Volume: 7 Issue: 2, 8 - 13, 27.12.2019

Ceran Şekeryapan

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

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