Publications

Focused erosion at the core of the Greater Caucasus: Sediment generation and dispersal from Mt. Elbrus to the Caspian Sea

Keywords: Sedimentary petrography and heavy minerals Channel steepness and erosion rates Debris flows and glacial-lake outburst floods Provenance and sediment budgets Sand generation index SGI Elbrus and Kazbek volcanoes Baksan and Terek rivers
Title of journal: Earth-Science Reviews
Year: 2020 Volume: 200

Author: Giovanni Vezzoli, Eduardo Garzanti, Mara Limonta, Giuditta Radeff,

Contrasting Pliocene fluvial depositional systems within the rapidly subsiding South Caspian Basin; a case study of the palaeo-Volga and palaeo-Kura river systems in the Surakhany Suite, Upper Productive Series, onshore Azerbaijan

Keywords: South Caspian Basin Surakhany Suite Productive Series Fluvial sedimentology Azerbaijan Pliocene Palynology Pollen Dinocysts Petrophysical properties
Title of journal: Marine and Petroleum Geology
Year: 2010 Volume: 28 Pages: 1-25

Author: Stephen Vincent, Clare Davies, Keith Richards, Elmira Aliyeva,

Using fluorescence microscopy to discern in situ from reworked palynomorphs in dynamic depositional environments — An example from sediments of the late Miocene to early Pleistocene Caspian Sea

Keywords: Caspian Sea Fluorescence microscopy Pliocene Productive Series Taphonomy Delta Reworking
Title of journal: Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology
Year: 2018 Volume: 256 Pages: 32-49

Author: Thomas M. Hoyle, Suzanne A.G. Leroy, Lourdes López-Merino, Keith Richards,

Palynology and micropalaeontology of the Pliocene - Pleistocene transition in outcrop from the western Caspian Sea, Azerbaijan: Potential links with the Mediterranean, Black Sea and the Arctic Ocean?

Keywords: Palynology Pliocene - Pleistocene transition western Caspian Sea Azerbaijan
Title of journal: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
Year: 2018 Volume: 511 Pages: 119-143

Author: Keith Richards, Christiaan G.C. van Baak, John Athersuch, Thomas M. Hoyle, Marius Stoica, Other autors

Vegetation succession and climate change across the Plio-Pleistocene transition in eastern Azerbaijan, central Eurasia (2.77–2.45 Ma)

Keywords: Palynology Taphonomy Milankovitch forcing Obliquity Caspian sea 40Ar/39Ar geochronology
Title of journal: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
Year: 2019 Volume: 538

Author: Thomas M. Hoyle, Suzanne A.G. Leroy, Lourdes Lόpez-Merino, Daniel P. Miggins, Anthony A.P. Koppers,

Active stress field and fault kinematics of the Greater Caucasus

Keywords: Caucasus Stress field Seismicity Active fault Focal mechanisms
Title of journal: Journal of Asian Earth Sciences
Year: 2020 Volume: 188

Author: Alessandro Tibaldi, Nino Tsereteli, Otar Varazanashvili, Gulam Babayev, A. Barth, Other autors

Milestones in the History of the Black Sea Oceanography

Keywords: Black Sea oceanography numerically modeling
Title of journal: Journal of the Georgian Geophysical Society
Year: 2018 Volume: 21 Pages: 34 – 46

Author: Avtandil Kordzadze, Demuri Demetrashvili,

Pollution of the Black Sea by Oil Products. Its Monitoring and Forecasting

Keywords: Black Sea pollution by oil products numerically modeling
Title of journal: Journal of the Georgian Geophysical Society
Year: 2018 Volume: 21 Pages: 47–60

Author: Avtandil Kordzadze, Demuri Demetrashvili,

Development of the Black Sea Regional Forecasting System for its Easternmost Part with Inclusion of Oil Spill Transport Forecast

Keywords: numerical simulation advection-diffusion equation nonstationary flow turbulent diffusion
Title of journal: Bulletin of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences
Year: 2014 Volume: 8 Pages: 41-47

Author: Avtandil Kordzadze, Demuri Demetrashvili,

Pollution of the Black Sea and its study by methods of mathematical modeling

Keywords: Pollution Black Sea mathematical modeling
Title of journal: Journal of the Georgian Geophysical Society
Year: 2010 Volume: 14 Pages: 53-74

Author: Avtandil Kordzadze, Demuri Demetrashvili,