Regional and Petroleum Geology of the Black Sea and Surrounding Region

Edited by

A. G. Robinson

AAPG Memoir 68

Published by The American Association of Petroleum Geologists Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.A. 74101

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Introduction: Tectonic Elements of the Black Sea Region A.G. Robinson Exploration History of the Black Sea Province /. Benton Thermomechanical Modeling of Black Sea Basin Formation, Subsidence, and Sedimentation G. Spadini, A.G. Robinson, and S.A.P.L. Cloetingh A Review of the Stratigraphy of Eastern Paratethys (Oligocene-Holocene), With Particular Emphasis on the Black Sea R.W. Jones and M.D. Simmons Mesozoic Strike-Slip Back-Arc Basins of the Western Black Sea Region C.J. Banks and A.G. Robinson Cimmerian and Alpine Stratigraphy and Structural Evolution of the Moesian Platform (Romania/Bulgaria) G. Tari, O. Dicea]J. Faulkerson, G. Georgiev, S. Popov, M. Stefanescu, and G. Weir The Balkan Thrust Wedge and Foreland Basin of Eastern Bulgaria: Structural and Stratigraphic Development H.D. Sinclair, S.G. Juranov, G. Georgiev, P. Byrne, and N.P. Mountney Basins and Thrust Belts of the Balkan Coast of the Black Sea C.J. Banks Sedimentary History of the Late Jurassic-Paleogene of Northeast Bulgaria and the Bulgarian Black Sea N. Harbury and M. Cohen Upper Jurassic-Cretaceous Planktonic Biofacies Succession and the Evolution of the Western Black Sea Basin M.D. Georgescu Geology and Tectonic Evolution of the Pontides Y. Yilmaz, O. Tiiysiiz, E. Yigitbas, . Can Genq, and A.M.C. engor Cretaceous Syn- to Postrift Sedimentation on the Southern Continental Margin of the Western Black Sea Basin N. Goriir Petroleum Geology of the Southern Continental Margin of the Black Sea N. Goriir and O. Tiiysiiz

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Tectonic-Sedimentary Evolution of the North-Tethyan Margin in the Central Pontides of Northern Turkey T. Ustaomer and A. Robertson Geology of the Eastern Pontides A.I. Okay and O. Sahinturk Results of Geochemical Analysis of Seeps and Potential Source Rocks from Northern Turkey and the Turkish Black Sea A.S. Derman and Y.H. Iztan Structure and Regional Tectonics of the Achara-Trialet Fold Belt and the Adjacent Rioni and Kartli Foreland Basins, Republic of Georgia C.J. Banks, A.G. Robinson, and M.P. Williams Petroleum Geology of the Georgian Fold and Thrust Belts and Foreland Basins A.G. Robinson, E.T. Griffith, A.R. Gardiner, and A.K. Home Stratigraphic and Structural Development of the Gulf of Odessa, Ukrainian Black Sea: Implications for Petroleum Exploration A.G. Robinson and E. Kerusov :

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