PALEOGEOGRAPHY OF THE NORTHWESTERN BLACK SEA SHELF DURING HOLOCENE
The features of paleoriver system forming during the Holocene in the Northwestern Black Sea shelf are presented in the paper. Late-Plaistocene - Holocene age of the paleoriver system as well as its spatial location, history of development through time and its connection with the global transgressive-regressive cycles were determined by means of geological, geomorphological, hydrological and geophysical methods. The last stage of existence of brackish basin was determined on the base of study of fauna assemblages in the bottom sediments and dates from ca. 8 - 9 ky BP which can be marked out by the appearance of the fauna from the Mediterranean Sea.