July 2, 1998 Today's work took us to Aksaz sazligi, still very marshy although the Karasu and Sirakaragaclar rivers continue to deposit silts along their banks. Because we are documenting coastal change, it is important to start our investigation in an area that has only recently been filled in with soil. We had some difficulty maintaining our sampling transect and had to borrow a dinghy from one of the local fishermen. We successfully documented a series of layers including recent soils, fresh water marsh and ancient marine silts by drilling a core nearly 12 meters deep.

Owen Doonan and Mark Besonen paddle through the marsh of Aksaz sazligi to the location of today's geomorphological investigations. if you're not already there, load the whole BlackSeaProject website