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The coastal area is the field of continuous interaction of marine hydrodynamic factors with those that act on the land. Since the prehistory, human communities have settled in this area, having access to both marine and land resources, drinking water being the most important. The Black Sea level is the drainage base level to which the surface waters of its hydrographic basin flow, but it also influences the groundwater dynamics. Southern Dobrogea is a typical geologic platform unit, divided in several tectonic blo...

The UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage, adopted on 2 November 2001 is an international treaty aims to saving the underwater cultural heritage. Romania have joined the UNESCO Convention on the protection of the underwater cultural heritage in July 2007. The Western Black Sea shelf has been defined entirely as an archaeological site. Based on complex geological, sedimentological, stratigraphic studies and determinations of absolute age [2, 6] it was argued the existence of a cycl...

The Romanian coasts can be divided in two categories: erosion coasts (cliff shores) and accumulative coasts (barrier beaches). The activ e behavior of the cliffs is due to the action of marine abrasion and slope processes, landslides and gravitational collapses. Cliff shores between Cape Midia and Vama Veche has a complex lithological profile. Silt and clay particles are carried seaward by the rip cu rrents system, while sand and gravel particles are conveyed along the coast. Textural and mineralogical study of th...