An Abrupt Drowning of the Black Sea Shelf at 7.5 KYR BP

During latest Quaternary glaciation, the Black Sea became a giant freshwater lake. The surface of this lake drew down to levels more than 100m below its outlet. When the Mediterranean rose to the Bosporus sill at 7.5 kyr BPl, saltwater poured through this spiltway to refill the and submerge, in less than a year, more than 100,000 Km of its exposed continental shelf.