INDEX Absorption chromatography, bitumoids, 683 Azov, Sea of, Caspibraackish ostracodes from, 1039 Acritarchs, 993 Background and objectives, Site 379, 30 Aegean Sea, present-day salinity values, 643 Site 380, 120 Afig Formation, 1208 Site 381, 294 Age determinations based on pollen, 515 Bacteria, sulfate-reducing, 767 radiocarbon values, 627 Bacterial activity, carbon dioxide reduction, 673 varves, 483 controlled by methane production, 649 Algerian continental margin, 1181 Bacterial densities in Black Sea sediments, 769 Algerian shelf, tectonic activity, 1181 Bacterial sulfate reduction, depositional environment of, 625 Alkaline metal content, Black Sea sediments, 597 Balearic Basin, 1100 Alkanes, 697 Barite, 423 Alloisoleucine-isoleucine ratios, dependence on deposi- Bathymetry, Black Sea, 360, 1043 tional environment, 700 Belaya River, 413 Alpha cold period, 30, 41, 147, 299, 997 Benthic foraminifers from sediments of western shelf, Black Alpha glacial stage, 133, 513, 516 Sea, 783 Aluminosilicates, Hole 379A, 531 Benthic foraminifers, as salinity indicators, 493 Amino acid abundances, effect of depth on, 699 Hole 380, 146 Effects of reducing and oxidizing environment on, 699 Site 381, 298 Hole 379A, 699, 704, 727 Benthic ostracodes from Lake Erie, 1039 Hole 380A, 699 Benthic ostracodes from Great Lakes, 1039 Site 381, 699, 727 Benzene, 673 temporal variations in, 699 Bering Sea sediments, 744 Amino acids, 725, 1176 Bet Guvrin formation, 1197 Amino acids in Black Sea sediment samples, 698 description of, 1201 Amorphous silica, geochemistry of, 585 Bet Guvrin sedimentary cycle, 1199 Analytic techniques, major elements, 527 Bet Nir conglomerate, 1208 minor elements, 527 Beta cold period, 30, 41, 299, 513 Analytical procedures, organic geochemistry of sediments, Betty warm period, 30 755 Biostratigraphic datum levels, Israel, 1197 strontium concentrations in sediments, 608 Biostratigraphy, Hole 380, 146 Anatolian Fault, 1046 method of, Leg 42B, 12 Andesite tuffs dredged on submarine Arkhangelsky Ridge, Site 379, 37 469 Site 381, 298 Andesitic tuffs dredged in the Sinopian area, 471 Biostratigraphy summary, Black Sea, 17 Apulian-Agean-Anatolian blocks, 1077 Bioturbate textures, 504 Arab-African plate, 1077 Bioturbation, 383 Arabian Platform, paleogeographic reconstruction, second Bituminological studies, Site 379, results of, 690 erosional phase, 1204 Bitumoids, 726 transgression of the Ziglag Reef over, 1208 absorption chromatography, 683 Arabian Platform, 1199, 1214 Black Sea, 683 Emergence of, 1201, 1217 carbonate content, 683 Aragonite, 382, 385, 452, 462 column chromatography, 724 genesis features, 583 diagenesis, 727 inorganically precipitated, 34 gas chromatography, 727 Aragonite precipitation, 512, 618 gas-liquid chromatography, 683 Aral Lake, 1017 IR-spectrometry, 683 Aral Sea, 487 physical properties, Site 379, 683 Ardana-Kalogrea Formation, 1186 Site 379, composition of, 684 Arkhangelsky Ridge, dredging results from, 469 UV-spectrometry, 683 Asphaltenes, 727 Bitumosity, degree of in samples from Hole 379A and Site Athalassa formation, 1186 381, 727 Atlas Mountains, 1181 Black Sea, Atomic-absorption spectroscopy studies, 375 bathymetry, 360, 1043 Authigenic mineralogical forms of iron (total), 723, 726 benthic foraminifers from sediments of western shelf, Authorship, responsibility for, 6 783 1231 biostratigraphy summary, 17 sedimentary framework, 359 bitumoids, 683 sedimentation rates, 1097 black shale sedimentation, 510 seismic activity, 1046 bottom sediments of, 627 seismic reflection profiles, 1044, 1141 Bouguer gravity anomaly in, 1044 stratigraphic classification schemes, 17 carbonate varves in, 135 stratigraphy, 17, 361, 1167 chemical sedimentation, 510 stratigraphy problems, 1151 diatom varves from, 137 structural setting, 1077 diatoms, 1160 sulfur, 1172 distribution of Recent sediments, 1079 tectonic setting of, 1141 foraminifers, 1158 terrigenous sedimentation, 513 forestation of area around, 956 thermocline, 134 geologic history, 520 varves, 499, 1158 geological setting, 1043 Black Sea area, regional geology, 359 geophysical and geological setting of, 1141 Black Sea Basin, 1065 geophysical surveys, 1154 subsidence of, 1147 gravity studies, 1044 Black Sea cores, chronostratigraphical correlation, 515 halocline, 730 Black Sea drainage area, 359 heat flow, 1046, 1099 Black Sea during the Pleistocene glacial fluctuations, his- heavy minerals, 1172 tory of, 638 history of, 1147 Black Sea during Quaternary, paleoclimate, 519 Holocene varve chronology, 499 Black Sea glacial stages, based on preliminary paleomagne- hydrocarbon potential, 1177 tic results, 519 hydrography, 360 Black Sea history as determined by diatoms, 856 inorganic geochemical studies, 1169 Black Sea region, evolution of vegetation, 957 lacustrine environment, 373 Black Sea, salinization of, 628 lacustrine phase, 3, 1043 Black Sea sedimentation, lagoonal model, 510, 514 lacustrine sedimentation, 509 Role of Bosporus sill, 514 late Cenozoic, paleogeography of, 903, 912 Black Sea sediments, 360, 707, 765, 1155 late Cenozoic history of, 1141 alkaline metals content, 597 lithostratigraphy, 413, 495, 1141 bacterial densities in, 769 magnetics, 1046 boron content, 598 major prograding systems, 1079 carbon dioxide, 661 major rivers draining into the, 499 cobalt content, 589 marine transgression, 955, 1001 compared to Green River oil shale, 763 molluscs, 1159 copper content, 590 nannofossils, 1158 electrical resistivity measurements, 1125 Neoeuxinian epoch, 632 geochemistry of carbonates, 563 objectives for drilling, 3, 1149 hafnium content, 597 origin, 1046, 1098, 1100, 1155 hydrocarbon gases, 661 origin and geological history of, 1085 hydrolysate elements content, 593 ostracodes, 1158 interstitial water, 1174 paleontology, 1158 lithofacies, 383 paleosalinity, 730, 844,1148 lithofauna, 373 paleotemperature, 851 manganese content, 588 palynomorph distribution, 997 mineralogy, 360, 373 periodic chemical sedimentation, 513 molybdenum content, 590 petroleum-generation potential of late Cenozoic sedi- nickel content, 589 ments from, 729 nickel porphyrins, 707 physiographic provinces of, 1043 paleosalinity, 641 Playa Lake stage of, 643 phosphorus content, 597 Pleistocene isolation of, 637 radiocarbon ages, 483 pollen and spores, 1159 sediment color, 382 pH of surface waters, 843 sediment structures, 382 regime of, 3 selenium content, 591 salinity, 614, 627 tantalum content, 597 salinity changes of water, 536 thorium content, 594 sediment accumulation rates, 123, 499, 514, 1043. tin content, 594 1069, 1082, 1097, 1158, 1168 tungsten content, 591 sediment thickness, 1149 Black Sea surface water, depletion in oxygen-18 relative to sedimentary environment, 373 SMOW, 617 1232 Black shales, 828 Caucasus, 518 Black Sea, 510 source of sediments, Site 379, 657 Paratethys, 522 Caucasus Mountains, 1043, 1046 Blue-green algae, 766 Ceaudian Basin, 1017 Boron content, Black Sea sediments, 598 Celia warm period, 30 Bosporus Strait, 120, 638, 1043, 1065, 1094, 1149 Cheliff interior basin, 1181 sill depth of, 30, 373 Chemical gradient, interstitial water, 650 role of in Black Sea sedimentation, 514 Chemical sedimentation, 493 Bosporus area, foraminifers from sediments near, 783 Black Sea, 510, 835 Bosporus mineralogical province, 418 Chemistry, interstitial water, 649 Bosporus petrographic province, 422 Chesapeake Bay, sediments of, 513 Bosporus province, 361 Chlorin concentration, decrease with depth, Site 379, 708 Bouguer gravity anomaly in Black Sea, 1044 Hole 380, 710 Bromide in interstitial water Chlorin diagenesis, 713 Site 381, 635 Chlorine/bromine ratio, Holes 380/380A, 648 Site 380, 633 Site 380, 633 Bromine, Hole 379A in interstitial water, 632 Chlorine/bromine ratio, Site 381, 635 methods of analyses, 631 Chlorinity values, related to Pleistocene glaciation, 641 Brunhes/Matuyama boundary, 518, 1069 Chlorins, Site 147, mass spectrometry analyses, 708 Burrows, 32, 388 Site 379, mass spectrometry analyses, 708 described, 504 Chronostratigraphic analysis, palynological evidence, 1142 Butanes, 661 correlation Black Sea sites, 515, 1142 Butylanes, 51 Chronostratigraphy, diatoms, 1145 C-13 measurements, 1174 dinoflagellates, 1145 Calcite, 382 nannofossils, 1142 genesis features, 581 Chrysophyta cysts, indicators of desiccation, 834 high-magnesian, 382 Cimmerian orogeny, 1077 precipitation, 512 Clathrate, 679 Carbon, geochemistry of, Legs 42A and 42B, 717 Climate indicators, palynomorphs, 489 Carbon dioxide, Black Sea sediments, 661 Climatic changes, correlation of, 518 sources in sediment, 650 Climatic optimum, 618 Carbon dioxide reduction, bacterial activity, 673 Cobalt content, Black Sea sediments, 589 Carbon isotopes, head space methane, 667 Column chromatography, bitumoids, 724 Carbon-14, 1173 sugars from Black Sea sediment samples, 702 Carbon-carbonate analyses, method of, 9 Cooling effects of Northern Hemisphere glaciation on Gulf Carbon-13 content, Lipids, 752 of Mexico region, 516 lipid and kerogen fractions, 718 Copper content, Black Sea sediments, 590 lipid fraction, Site 380, 718 Core disturbance, Leg 42B, 8 Carbon-14 age determinations, Site 380, 627 Core handling, Leg 42B, 7 Vityaz 4754, 627 Correlation between sites, diatoms, 832 Carbon/nitrogen ratios, Hole 379A, 704 and seismic reflection data, 1079 Carbonate content, bitumoids, 683 Correlation of climatic changes, 518 equilibrium system, 649 lithologic units, 495 fractions, strontium content of, 612 Cretaceous black shales, Site 381, 756 genesis features, 581 Crimea, 1046, 1147 sediment analyses,