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Downloaded from http://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/books/book/chapter-pdf/3836414/9781629810782_frontmatter.pdf by guest on 27 September 2021 Dr. Andrew Robinson's longtime interest in the geology of the Black Sea region and his commitment to bringing previously classified information and new research to the attention of the international geological community have resulted in this remarkable volume. It was during his tenure with BP Exploration in the early 1990s while he was working on new international ventures that Robinson's long-standing interest in the petroleum and regional geology of the Black Sea took hold. It was triggered by his involvement with a BP project which included the Turkish sector of the Black Sea Robinson, a native of the United Kingdom, began his work in the oil industry with Shell, and later moved to BP While wrth BP Research, he worked on problems of reservoir quality and sandstone diagenesis. Out of this work came two other books. Inorganic Geochemistry: Applications to Petroleum Geology, and Diagenesis and Basin Development. For this work, the Geological Society awarded him the William Smith fund. In 1994 Andrew lomed JKX Oil and Gas as Chief Geologist. Robinson studied geology at Oxford and Toronto Universities and obtained his Ph.D. at Reading university. Currently he resides in Surrey and continues to publish papers about two ot his great research interests: clastic diagenesis and the regional geology of Eurasia.

On the cover: Composite image ol the Black Sea and surrounding areas. Land areas: false color Landsat TM image showing topography, in particular ihe location of Alpine thrust belts. Black Sea: image color-coded to show depth to break-up unconformity (base-post- ntt). Orange areas are high, violet areas are low. This image shows the morphology ol Western and Eastern Black Sea exlensiortal back-arc basins Courtesy of BP Exploration and Elsevier Science Ltd.

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Edited by A. G. Robinson

AAPG Memoir 68

Published by The American Association of Petroleum Geologists Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.A. 74101

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Andrew Robinson studied geology at Oxford and Toronto Universities and sub• sequently at Reading University, where he obtained a Ph.D. degree.

Andrew began his work in the oil industry with Shell, then moved in 1984 to BP. During five years in BP Research, he worked on problems of reservoir quality and sandstone diagenesis. Out of this work came the books Inorganic Geochemistry: Applications of Petroleum Geology and AAPG Studies in Geology 36, Diagenesis and Basin Development. For this work, the Geological Society awarded Andrew the William Smith Fund.

In 1990, Andrew moved to BP Exploration and worked on international new ven• tures, one of which involved the Turkish sector of the Black Sea. At this point, his longstanding interest in the petroleum and regional geology of the Black Sea began.

Since leaving BP in 1994, Andrew has worked for JKX Oil & Gas as Chief Geologist, where he has continued to publish papers about two of his great research interests: clastic diagenesis and the regional geology of Eurasia.

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Regional and Petroleum Geology of the Black Sea and Surrounding Region

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1 Introduction: Tectonic Elements of the Black Sea Region 1 A.G. Robinson

2 Exploration History of the Black Sea Province 7 /. Benton

3 Thermomechanical Modeling of Black Sea Basin Formation, Subsidence, and Sedimentation 19 G. Spadini, A.G. Robinson, and S.A.P.L. Cloetingh

4 A Review of the Stratigraphy of Eastern Paratethys (Oligocene-Holocene), With Particular Emphasis on the Black Sea 39 R. W. Jones and M.D. Simmons

5 Mesozoic Strike-Slip Back-Arc Basins of the Western Black Sea Region 53 C.J. Banks and A.G. Robinson

6 Cimmerian and Alpine Stratigraphy and Structural Evolution of the Moesian Platform (Romania/Bulgaria) 63 G. Tari, O. Dicea, J. Faulkerson, G. Georgiev, S. Popov, M. Stefanescu, and G. Weir

7 The Balkan Thrust Wedge and Foreland Basin of Eastern Bulgaria: Structural and Stratigraphic Development 91 H. D. Sinclair, S.G. Juranov, G. Georgiev, P. Byrne, and N.P. Mountney

8 Basins and Thrust Belts of the Balkan Coast of the Black Sea 115 C.J. Banks

9 Sedimentary History of the Late Jurassic-Paleogene of Northeast Bulgaria and the Bulgarian Black Sea 129 N. Harbury and M. Cohen

10 Upper Jurassic-Cretaceous Planktonic Biofacies Succession and the Evolution of the Western Black Sea Basin 169 M.D. Georgescu

11 Geology and Tectonic Evolution of the Pontides 183 Y. Yilmaz, O. Tuysuz, E. Yigitbas, §. Can Genq, and A.M.C. §engor

12 Cretaceous Syn- to Postrift Sedimentation on the Southern Continental Margin of the Western Black Sea Basin 227 N. Goriir

13 Petroleum Geology of the Southern Continental Margin of the Black Sea 241 N. Goriir and O. Tuysuz

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15 Geology of the Eastern Pontides 291 A.I. Okay and 6. Sjihinturk

16 Results of Geochemical Analysis of Seeps and Potential Source Rocks from Northern Turkey and the Turkish Black Sea 313 A.S. Herman and Y.H. Iztan

17 Structure and Regional Tectonics of the Achara-Trialet Fold Belt and the Adjacent Rioni and Kartli Foreland Basins, Republic of Georgia 331 C.J. Banks, A.G. Robinson, and M.P. Williams

18 Petroleum Geology of the Georgian Fold and Thrust Belts and Foreland Basins 347 A.G. Robinson, E.T. Griffith, A.R. Gardiner, and A.K. Home

19 Stratigraphic and Structural Development of the Gulf of Odessa, Ukrainian Black Sea: Implications for Petroleum Exploration 369 A.G. Robinson and E. Kerusov Index 381

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