The Marmara Sea, connected to the Mediterranean Sea through the Dardanelles Strait and to the Black Sea through the Bosphorus, is the keystone of a complex hydrological system. Through the Marmara Sea, freshwater flows westward while heavier marine water flows eastward below. However, the balance between inputs and outputs has been disturbed during glacial periods when the global ocean level dropped below the sill depths, isolating the Marmara Sea. The Sea of Marmara is also an active tectonic structure and its morphology is still slowly being modified by the movements of the North-Anatolian fault northern branch. The ruptures of this continental dextral transform fault, one of the longest fault in the world, are regularly causing massive e...