The high Karangatian lagoon-transgressive terrace of Taman' peninsular and N-E coast of the Sea of Asov

Abstract

Coastal plains of Taman peninsular are composed of loess loam. The presence of Karangatian fossils in the rock mass and on the surface rakes it possible to suppose the high (15-20 m) position of the Black Sea level in one of the stages of Karangatian time. The author considers the coastal plains of Taman' peninsular as the Middle Pleistocene lagoon-transgressive terrace, composed of lagoon-alluvial sediment of Paleokuban' river. This new revealed terrace is correlative to It alluvial terraces of Paleokuban' and Don and also to deposits of lake Burtasskoye, which during the Middle Pleistocene was set in the Manytch depression.