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The Late Pleistocene history of the Caspian and Black seas is considered. It is suggested that the New-Euxinian basin was to a great degree due to the penetration of the Caspian water through the Manych depression into the Black Sea during the Caspian-Early Khvalynian transgression.
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Original Russian Text © A.A. Svitoch, 2008, published in Vodnye Resursy, 2008, Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 175–180.
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Svitoch, A.A. The Khvalynian transgression of the Caspian Sea and the New-Euxinian basin of the Black Sea. Water Resour 35, 165–170 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0097807808020048
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