Landsat features in the Black Sea area: their tectonic significance

The available Landsat MSS images were studied using photogeologic interpretation techniques to produce a synthetic map of linear features in the area surrounding the Black Sea. A classification of linears was made according to their length and continuity. On a regional scale the main characteristics of the deformative mechanism were analyzed. Imagery proved very useful to correlate the geological information gathered by various authors and using different criteria. In particular, it helped to understand the evolution of the structural domains and their relationships with the present setting of the Black Sea, which appears to represent the residual of an original sequence of basins formed during the Mesozoic by crustal extension. -from Authors