Abstract The Pontocaspian (Black Sea-Caspian Sea) region has a very dynamic history of
basin development and biotic evolution. The region is the remnant of a once vast Paratethys …

▪ Abstract Decades of seabed mapping, reflection profiling, and seabed sampling reveal that
throughout the past two million years the Black Sea was predominantly a freshwater lake …

Oxygen has had extraordinary effects on life. Three hundred million years ago, in
Carboniferous times, dragonflies grew as big as seagulls, with wingspans ofnearly a metre …

An eye-opening and essential tour of the vanishing world What if Atlantis wasn'ta myth, but
an early precursor to a new age of great flooding? Across the globe, scientists and civilians …

A number of examples are presented to substantiate that submarine landslides have
occurred along most continental margins and along several volcano flanks. Their properties …

An epic for our time, Big History begins when the universe is no more than a single point the
size of an atom, squeezed together in unimaginable density, and ends with a twenty-first …

How did humankind deal with the extreme challenges of the last Ice Age? How have the
relatively benign post-Ice Age conditions affected the evolution and spread of humanity …

Outburst floods can have disastrous impacts on people, and are an important driving force in
landscape change and have been studied widely on Earth. In China, although outburst …

The domestication of emmer wheat (Triticum turgidum spp. dicoccoides, genomes BBAA)
was one of the key events during the emergence of agriculture in southwestern Asia, and …

WP by increasing yield and/or reducing ET always results in net savings, thus reducing
agricultural water requirements. This is a key point in assessing the opportunities for true …