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== Further reading ==
Aksu, Ali E.; Hiscott, Richard N.; Mudie, Peta J.; Rochon, André; Kaminski, Michael A.; Abrajano, Teofilo; Yaşar, Doğan (2002). "Persistent Holocene Outflow from the Black Sea to the Eastern Mediterranean Contradicts Noah's Flood Hypothesis". GSA Today. 12 (5): 4. Bibcode:2002GSAT...12e...4A. doi:10.1130/1052-5173(2002)012<0004:PHOFTB>2.0.CO;2.
Yanko-Hombach, Valentina; Gilbert, Allan S.; Panin, Nicolae; Dolukhanov, Pavel M., eds. (2007). The Black Sea Flood Question: Changes in Coastline, Climate, and Human Settlement. doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-5302-3. ISBN 978-1-4020-4774-9.
Dimitrov, Petko; Dimitrov, Dimitar (2004). The Black Sea, the Flood and the ancient myths. "Slavena", Varna. doi:10.13140/RG.2.2.18954.16327.
Dimitrov, Dimitar Petkov (2010). Geology and Non-traditional resources of the Black Sea. LAP (Lambert Academic Publishing AG), Saarbrucken, Germany. doi:10.13140/RG.2.2.20631.88486.
Eris, K.; Ryan, W. B. F.; Cagatay, N.; Sancar, Ü.; Lericolais, G.; Menot, G.; Bard, E. (2008). "The timing and evolution of the post-glacial transgression across the Sea of Marmara shelf south of İstanbul" (PDF). Marine Geology. 243 (1–4): 57–76. doi:10.1016/j.margeo.2007.04.010.
Gökaşan, E.; Algan, O.; Tur, H.; Meriç, E.; Türker, A.; Şimşek, M. (2005). "Delta formation at the southern entrance of Istanbul Strait (Marmara sea, Turkey): a new interpretation based on high-resolution seismic stratigraphy". Geo-Marine Letters. 25 (6): 370–377. Bibcode:2005GML....25..370G. doi:10.1007/s00367-005-0215-4. S2CID 130792746.
Keith, M.L.; Anderson, G.M. (1963). "Radiocarbon Dating: Fictitious Results with Mollusk Shells". Science. 141 (3581): 634–637. Bibcode:1963Sci...141..634K. doi:10.1126/science.141.3581.634. PMID 17781758. S2CID 24213036.
Lericolais, G.; et al. (2009). "High frequency sea level fluctuations recorded in the Black Sea since the LGM". Global and Planetary Change. 66 (1–2): 65–75. Bibcode:2009GPC....66...65L. doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2008.03.010. S2CID 140710053.
Lippsett, Lonny (14 August 14, 2009). "Noah's Not-so-big Flood" Oceanus.
National Geographic News. 2009-02-06. "Noah's Flood" Not Rooted in Reality, After All?
"Ballard and the Black Sea". National Geographic Society.
Schiermeier, Quirin (August 2004). "Noah's flood". Nature. 430 (7001): 718–719. doi:10.1038/430718a. PMID 15306780. Gale A186293984.
The late glacial Great Flood in the Ponto-Caspian basin (Archived 2015-05-12 at the Wayback Machine). paleogeo.org.
Ryan, William B.F.; Pitman, Walter C.; Major, Candace O.; Shimkus, Kazimieras; Moskalenko, Vladamir; Jones, Glenn A.; Dimitrov, Petko; Gorür, Naci; Sakinç, Mehmet; Yüce, Hüseyin (April 1997). "An abrupt drowning of the Black Sea shelf". Marine Geology. 138 (1–2): 119–126. Bibcode:1997MGeol.138..119R. doi:10.1016/s0025-3227(97)00007-8.
Ryan, William B.; Pitman, Walter C. (2000). Noah's Flood: The new scientific discoveries about the event that changed history. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-684-85920-0.
Shopov Y. Y., Т. Yalamov, P. Dimitrov, D. Dimitrov and B. Shkodrov (2009b) Initiation of the Migration of Vedic Aryans to India by a Catastrophic Flooding of the Black Sea by Mediterranean Sea during the Holocene". Extended Abstracts of LIMPACS-3 International Conference of IGBP, PAGES, 5–8 March 2009, Chandigarh, India, pp. 126–127.* Sperling, M.; Schmiedl, G.; Hemleben, C.; Emeis, K. C.; Erlenkeuser, H.; Grootes, P. M. (2003). "Black Sea impact on the formation of eastern Mediterranean sapropel S1? Evidence from the Marmara Sea". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 190: 9–21. Bibcode:2003PPP...190....9S. doi:10.1016/s0031-0182(02)00596-5.
Yanko-Hombach, Valentina; Allan S. Gilbert; Nicolae Panin; Pavel M. Dolukhanov, eds. (2007). The Black Sea Flood Question. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer. ISBN 978-1-4020-4774-9. OCLC 77482394.