No evidence for a 10-m historical tectonic uplift at Mangalia, (Romanian Black Sea coast): comment on Drăguşin et al. (2025)
Abstract Drăguşin et al. (2025) interpreted deposits at Mangalia (Romania) as evidence of a two-phase tectonic event (~ 14 m subsidence and uplift) during the 18th–19th centuries. Based on multi-proxy data from the same site, we show that this scenario is inconsistent with regional tectonics, stratigraphy, and archaeology. The deposits instead record the gradual infill of a coastal depression episodically affected by extreme marine incursions.
Authors
- Alfred Vespremeanu‐Stroe (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6559-3490)
- Florin Zăinescu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9048-7697)
- Anca Dan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6468-9327)
- Luminița Preoteasa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9249-2089)
- Edward J. Anthony (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1032-4821)
- Laurențiu Țuțuianu
- Mihaela Dobre
Institutions
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- University of Bucharest (RO)
- Collège de France (FR)
- Aix-Marseille Université (FR)
- Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement (FR)
- Centre de Recherche et d’Enseignement de Géosciences de l’Environnement (FR)
- Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iași (RO)
- Laboratoire de Géologie de l’École Normale Supérieure (FR)
- Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (FR)
- Romanian University of Sciences and Arts "Gheorghe Cristea" (RO)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Geoscience Letters
- Published
- 2025-11-12
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s40562-025-00438-x
- Primary Topic
- Marine and environmental studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Universitatea din București
- Szegedi Tudományegyetem