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In the past few decades, the Black Sea has been the subject of intense geological and geophysical studies, including deep seismic sounding, reflection profiling, gravity and magnetic surveys for scientific and petroleum exploration purposes (Nikishin et al. 2010; Soson et al. 2010; Stephenson and Schellart 2010).
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This study was supported by the Department of Science Fellowship and Grant programs (2014–2219) of TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) and by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) The Earth Resources Laboratory (ERL). I express my thanks and appreciation to Prof.M.Nafi Toksöz for his encouragement and assistance.
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Kalafat, D. (2018). An Overview of the Seismicity and Tectonics of the Black Sea. In: D'Amico, S. (eds) Moment Tensor Solutions. Springer Natural Hazards. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77359-9_25
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