Table of Contents
THE TURKISH STRAITS BOSPORUS - SEA OF MARMARA - DARDANELLES
Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION
Chapter 2 GEOGRAPHY OF THE BOSPORUS, SEA OF MARMARA, AND DARDANELLES AND THE SURROUNDING REGION
Historical geography Economic geography Cultural geography
Chapter 3 GEOLOGY
Physiography Black sea Bosporus Submarine sills and canyons Golden horn Sea of Marmara Izmit Bay Cekmece Lakes Dardanelles Submarine sills and canyons Aegean Sea Izmir Bay Regional Lithology Structure Seismicity Marine Sediments Distribution of grain size Age Mineralogy Life Historical geology
Chapter 4 CLIMATE
Black Sea Sea of Marmara Aegean Sea Eastern Mediterranean Regional Contents (continued)
Chapter 5 HYDROLOGY
Precipitation
Runoff
Chapter 6 PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY
Western Black Sea Distribution of properties Sea level Surface currents Bosporus Distribution of properties Temperature Salinity Density Sea level
Waves Tides Seiche Surface currents Normal
Vortices Reversals Two-layer flow system Normal Effects upon sedimentation Internal waves Hydraulic geometry Stirring and mixing Golden Horn Distribution of properties Sea level Surface currents Two—layer flow system Sea of Marmara Distribution of properties Sea level Surface currents Two-layer flow system Contents (continued)
Chapter 6 (concluded)
Izmit Bay Distribution of properties Cekmece Lakes Distribution of properties Dardanelles Distribution of properties Surface currents Two-layer flow system Aegean (including Izmir Bay) Distribution of properties Sea level Surface currents Regional
Chapter 7 CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY
Black Sea Bosporus Golden Horn Sea of Marmara Izmit Bay Aegean Regional
Chapter 8 ENGINEERING AND ECONOMIC ASPECTS
Navigation Shipping Construction Fisheries Recreation Pollution control
APPENDIX
A ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING ACTIVITIES
Climatology Hydrology Oceanography Contents (concluded)
APPENDIX
B ATLAS
Geography Historical Economic Cultural Geology Regional physiography Regional lithology Regional structure Regional seismicity Details of marine sedimentation Details of submarine morphology and hypsometry
Climate Regional temperature Regional humidity Regional winds Regional fog Regional cloud cover Estimates of spectral density of winds at Yesilkoy Hydrology Regional hydrogeology Regional precipitation Physical Oceanography Areal and cross-sectional distribution of properties Historical
1965-1968
Sea level
Waves
Tides Estimate of spectral density for Bosporus Surface currents Bosporus and Dardanelles after L. Moller Bosporus, 1965-1968 Chemical and Biological Oceanography Dissolved oxygen PH Plankton Fisheries ,**-*. it ii<_ h«6i ^ "f^ ,3/~<-'
THE TURKISH STRAITS BOSPORUS - MARMARA - DARDANELLES
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Introduction and Methods
Geography - historical •X - economic •X - cultural •X
Geology physiography • X Bathynetric data and discussion of possible sill at Black Sea lithology •X entrance to Bosporus structure •X seismicity •X sediments •X •X •X •X
Climate temperature •X
humidity •X winds •X Spectral analyses available for data from Yesilkoy (neur Istanb fog •X cloud cover •X Based on surface and NIMBUS dat,-.
Hydrology - precipitation - drainage basins - runoff - water quality
Physical Oceanography Distribution of properties
- temperature •X •X• •X •X Dardanelles data primarily from Merz/Mbller and NODC files - salinity •X •X• •X •X - density •X •X• •X •X
Sea level- waves •X Spectral analyses available lor Bosporus data - tides •X :)
Surface currents •X - vortices
- reversals
Two-layer flow system Effects upon sedimentation; internal waves; hydraulic geometry - estuarial analogy - submerged weir analogy
Chemical and Biological Oceanography Dissolved oxygen Nutrients
Plankton Fisheries . f £ %*>*w.-c. Benthos
Engineering Aspects Navigation Construction
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