Abstract:
On the Black Sea coast and in the Dniester valley there are paleoarchives which can become a basis for identifying new terrace-type geoparks. On the Black Sea coast, the core of such a geopark can be the Sudak standard terrace profile (marine subtype) - a complex of 12 terrace levels corresponding to the development stages of the Black Sea basin, starting with the Kuyalnikian and Gurian ones, and ending with the New Euxinian and Black Sea ones. In the Dniester valley, there is the Dniester standard terrace profile (alluvial subtype of the geopark of the same name), consisting of more than 20 levels. The identified terrace levels are of the same age and correspond to the marine stages of the Black Sea basin development.
