Geological structure and tectonic evolution of the Ukrainian sector of the Black Sea

• Date: 2020
• Main Authors: Stovba, S.M., Popadyuk, I.V., Fenota, P.O, Khriachtchevskaia, O.I.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: S. Subbotin Institute of Geophysics of the NAS of Ukraine 2020
• Subjects: Black Sea; Odesa Shelf; Eastern Black Sea Basin; Western Black Sea Basin; Andrusov Ridge; tectonic evolution; inverted rift structures; rifting; compression; Messinian event; Mesozoic; Cenozoic; seismic interpretation
• Online Access: https://journals.uran.ua/geofizicheskiy/article/view/215072
• Journal Title: Geofizicheskiy Zhurnal

The entire Ukrainian sector of the Black Sea, which occupies its northernmost part, was studied with the interpretation of the post-1990 seismic reflection data along seismic lines having a total length of some 30 000 km. In the northern Black Sea relatively low extension of the continental crust oc...