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The north-western and western coast of the Black Sea, corresponding to Romania and Bulgaria, is subject of crustal deformations due to remote effects produced by geological processes ran at planetary (e.g. plate tectonics in the Atlantic and Eastern Mediterranean-Anatolia realms) and regional (e.g. the tectonic coupling of the Black Sea basin and Vrancea seismogenic area) scales as well as due to relatively local geological processes (e.g. subsidence of sedimentary basins, young sediments compaction, etc.). The ge...

The atmospheric sound waves with frequencies lower than 20Hz are named infrasound waves. Among the multitude of infrasonic signals that have been recorded and detected during time, some of them have been associated with different natural or anthropogenic sources and the source of many other remaining hidden and unknown. At the beginning of year 2013, a permanent infrasound monitoring system composed by a MB AZEL2007 microbarometer, the digitizer and the transmitting equipment, was installed by NIEP, at Mangalia, R...

The article is devoted to the results of hydrometeorological research of the Black Sea, carried out on a stationary oceanographic platform located near the Southern Coast of Crimea at a distance of 600 m from the shore. The author represents a complex developed at Marine Hydrophysical Institute, for measuring such hydrometeorological parameters as wave height, wind speed and wind direction, atmosphere and sea temperatures, atmosphere pressure, relative humidity. In order to measure the wave heights the twisted res...

The Black Sea coastal zone of Georgia is especially valuable for its natural conditions and economic function. Concerning to the implementation of requirements of EU-Georgia Association Agreement the main guiding document regarding the marine environment is The Marine Strategy Framework Directive ? MSFD which came into force on July 15, 2008. The goal of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) is to achieve or maintain Good Environmental Status ? GES in marine waters of Europe (including Black Sea) not late...

The article represents the results of a multi-year (1995-2011) monitoring of wind waves in the northwestern part of the Black Sea. The author gives a clear-cut presentation of the regime and extreme characteristics of wind waves of the northwestern shelf of the Black Sea. The measurements were carried out on a stationary offshore platform Golitsino-4, located 50 km from the shore. A twisted resistive wave gage with a sampling resolution of 4 Hz and the possibility of registering wave heights up to 10 m was used to...

Over 400,000 shells of different calibers were dumped in Burgas Bay after the end of WWI. The operation, under the coordination of the British forces, was completed without the dumping areas to be clearly mentioned and mapped, allowing us today to assume that they can be anywhere in Burgas Bay. Many other shells were also dumped in the sea at the end of WWII. During the first phase of expansion of Burgas harbor, carried out between 2001 and 2006, a great deal of unexploded ammunition, originating from both WWI and...

The interest in sustainable economic development, with all the financial benefits arising from it, is a priority to the objectives of protection in Natura 2000 sites. To highlight the antithesis between the protection objectives and the desire for economic development of this space, we used the Markov model. The data used for the analysis were the boundaries of the Natura 2000 sites and the information provided by Corine Land Cover data set from 2006 (the year prior to the establishment of these sites) and 2012. B...