Black Sea Oceanography

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Hydrographic Variability in the Black Sea....Pages 1-16
Double Diffusive Intrusions, Mixing and Deep Sea Convection Processes in the Black Sea....Pages 17-42
On the Dynamics of the Southern Black Sea....Pages 43-63
Noble Gases and Tritium in the Black Sea....Pages 65-74
Factors Affecting the Oxygen Isotopic Composition of the Black Sea....Pages 75-88
Geochemical and Structural Aspects of the Pycnocline in the Black Sea (R/V KNORR 134-8 LEG 1, 1988)....Pages 89-110
Nitrogen Transformations in the Oxic Layer of Permanent Anoxic Basins: The Black Sea and the Cariaco Trench....Pages 111-124
Thermodynamic Modeling of Trace Metal Speciation in the Black Sea....Pages 125-160
Total and Suspended Cadmium, Cobalt, Copper, Iron, Lead, Manganese, Nickel, and Zinc in the Water Column of the Black Sea....Pages 161-172
Potential for Manganese(II) Oxidation and Manganese(IV) Reduction to Co-Occur in the Suboxic Zone of the Black Sea....Pages 173-185
Sulfur and Iodine Speciation in the Water Column of the Black Sea....Pages 187-204
The Oxidation of H 2 S with O 2 in the Black Sea....Pages 205-227
Ruthenium-106 in the Black Sea....Pages 229-243
 137 Cs and 239,240 Pu Concentrations in the Black Sea Water Column....Pages 245-255
Radionuclide Distributions in Recent Black Sea Sediments....Pages 257-270
Microbial Processes in the Black Sea Water Column and Top Sediment: An Overview....Pages 271-286
A Review of the General Food Web in the Black Sea....Pages 287-292
Biogenic Aggregate Sedimentation in the Black Sea Basin....Pages 293-306
On the Sulfur and Carbon Balances in the Black Sea....Pages 307-318
Organic Matter Sources in the Black Sea as Inferred from Hydrocarbon Distributions....Pages 319-341
Organic carbon and nitrogen geochemistry of Black Sea surface sediments from stations spanning the oxic:anoxic boundary....Pages 343-359
The Nature and Distribution of Fluorescent Dissolved Organic Matter in the Black Sea and the Cariaco Trench....Pages 361-378
Recent Geological Evolution of the Black Sea: An Overview....Pages 379-387
The Effects of Neotectonic Movements on the Recent Sedimentation of the SW Black Sea....Pages 389-400
Upper Holocene Sediments of the Black Sea: Summary of Leg 4 Box Cores (1988 Black Sea Oceanographic Expedition)....Pages 401-441
Uranium Precipitation in Black Sea Sediments....Pages 443-458
Pollution Chronology of the Golden Horn Sediments....Pages 459-468
Sampling and Analysis of Aerosols in the Black Sea Atmosphere....Pages 469-487