THE DISTAL DANUBE DEEP-SEA FAN IS THE LAST "SINK " OF ITS EPONYMOUS RIVER BASIN:

The Danube River Basin and the Black Sea represent a unique natural laboratory for studying source to sink and global change. In the last decade, many of the geosciences studies carried out in the Black Sea have focused on the Holocene marine transgression. This topic has been fully discussed and is still a matter of debate. Since the DSDP drillings, the lithology and mineralogy of deep sediments from the Black Sea have been well studied. However, only few recent studies have focused on the deep-sea morphology and turbidite sedimentation in the western Black Sea basin, where the main depositional feature is the Danube submarine fan. Recent oceanographic surveys demonstrate that the deep basin deposits bear the record of the Late Quaternary paleoenvironmental changes