Black Sea Basin - Geodynamics and Modelling

P074 BLACK SEA BASIN - GEODYNAMICS AND MODELLING M. KOROTAEV A. NIKISHIN A.ERSHOV and M.-F. BRUNET Abstract 1 The Black Sea Basin originated as a back-arc basin during the Cretaceous times. Continental rifting took place during the Aptian to Albian. Large-scale crustal thinning and separation occurred since the Cenomanian mainly along a former Albian volcanic arc. Both the Western and Eastern Black Sea basins have been opened nearly simultaneously during Cenomanian to Coniacian times. Since the Santonian to the Paleocene the Black Sea region was affected by compressional deformations. Tensional event in eastern part of the region took place during