This study investigates the actual glaciers and the major properties of glacial landscapes (valleys, cirques and lakes) located over the Eastern Black Sea mountain chain using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS) technologies. A database is created for each glacial feature that includes fundamental properties of each landscape. Data layers used in the study include digital and analog topographic maps, satellite images, geological maps and drainage maps. The studies carried out yielded identification of 93 glacial valleys (30 main, 63 tributary), 1222 cirques and 685 lakes. Several properties (length, size, aspect, elevation, slope, orientation, roundness, elongation) of each glacial landscape are investigated for the northern and southern parts separately. The frequency of each landscape is found to be more in the northern part of the area. Total area of the actual glacier is found as 0.43 to 0.53 km2 by two methods of remote sensing applications.

Wind waves are highly complex, random phenomena. One way to describe the irregular nature of the sea surface is the use of wave energy spectrum. Spectral information for wind waves in the Black Sea is extremely limited. Knowledge on spectral characteristics of wind waves would contribute to scientific, engineering and operational coastal and marine activities in the Black Sea. The aim of the present thesis is to investigate characteristics of wind wave spectra for the Eastern Black Sea. This would allow detailed understanding of the nature of the waves occurring in this enclosed basin. Long-term wave measurements obtained by directional buoys deployed offshore at Sinop, Hopa and Gelendzhik were utilized as the three sets of wave data. Records were analyzed to identify them as uni-modal or multi-modal spectra, and occurrences of spectral peaks were computed. Single peaked spectra were studied as belonging to fully arisen or developing sea states. Model parameters of JONSWAP and PM spectra were estimated for the observed spectra by using a least square error method. The records of developing seas were further analyzed to select the ones belonging to stable wind conditions. Fetch dependencies of non-dimensional spectral variables, mean parameters of JONSWAP model spectrum and the envelop of dimensionless spectra were investigated for this data sub-set.

Demand for energy is constantly growing both in the world and in Turkey. Sustainable development being an important concept, development of small hydro power projects has been popular in recent years. Eastern Black Sea Basin in Turkey has a lot of small hydro power potential because of high amount of precipitation and existence of steep slopes. Since the amount of river runoff is the only parameter that is variable in order to determine the power potential, it is vital to estimate the project discharge in ungauged basins accurately that have hydro power potential. Projects discharges of hydro-power plants in ungauged basins have been calculated using conventional methods up to now. This study aims to introduce a statistical model in linear and multi-variate form using the topographical and morphological parameters derived from GIS and hydro-meteorological variables to estimate the specific flow duration curves of potential small hydro-power locations for the selected study areas in Eastern Black Sea Region namely Solakli and Karadere basins. As well as developing an annual regression model using the annual values of hydro-meteorological parameters / seasonal regression model (spring season) has also been developed by including the mean seasonal (spring) air temperature variable instead of snow covered area (SCA) in addition to basin parameters. By studying the spring model, effect of different variables from the annual model were tested and discussed with some recommendations for the future studies.

New and renewable energy resources are important in view of reduction of greenhouse gasses causing climate change and in eliminating of dependence on foreign sources in energy respects. Within this context, hydraulic energy is evaluated as one of the prior energy resources that should be utilized. Turkey has 26 basins and Eastern Black Sea Basin is one of the most feasible basins with a lot of small hydroelectric power plants. In the other hand, there is not enough number of discharge gauging stations in the basin. For that reason, up to now generally area ratio method has been used to estimate the project discharges of small hydroelectric power plants. Objective of this study is to estimate &ldquo / the project discharge&rdquo / which is corresponding to 5 flow percentiles (5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, 25%) depending on topographical, meteorological, hydrologic and soil-land cover parameters through developing a multilinear statistical model for Iyidere Basin as a part of Eastern Black Sea Basin. Perimeter of the basin, the ratio of the basin perimeter to the main stream length of the same basin, the drainage frequency, the mean slope of basin, v the mean annual precipitation and the curve number are the parameters that have been analysed for the multilinear statistical model. Principal Component Analysis, Multiple Regression Analysis and Stepwise Regression Analysis have been run for the data sets. For the computed discharges validation has been done. As a result of validation, it has been seen that the stepwise regression gives much closer discharge values to the observed values than the multiple regression results.

Cette thèse concerne l’étude de la structure géologique de la Crimée orientale et de son prolongement en mer, le fossé Sorokin, dans le but de reconstruire l'évolution tectonique de la marge, inversée, au nord de la Mer Noire Orientale. Ces recherches ont été initiées car l’âge Trias supérieur-Jurassique inférieur des roches les plus anciennes, de type flysch, seraient en fait Albien (Crétacé inférieur) soit 60 à 110 millions d'années plus jeune. Force d'observations sur le terrain, de datations micropaléontologiques, d’une analyse structurale, avec une recherche des paléo-champs de contraintes, d'une analyse de profils de sismiques réflexion de la marge, notre étude permets de réactualiser et de clarifier la géologie de la Crimée orientale. Les principaux résultats de cette thèse sont les suivants : 1) grâce à nos nouvelles datations, les sédiments turbiditiques du Crétacé inférieur ont une plus grande répartition géographique; 2) deux formations de flysch ont été identifiées, l’une du Crétacé inférieur et l’autre du Trias supérieur-Jurassique Moyen (Groupe Tauric); 3) une carte structurale de la Crimée orientale a été réalisée qui permet de mettre en évidence une phase d'extension durant le Crétacé et deux phases compressives durant le Cénozoïque ; 4) ces deux phases compressives (Paléocène-Eocène inférieur et Oligocène-Pliocène moyen) sont confirmées par l’interprétations de 8 profils sismiques en mer qui ont été corrélés avec un forage (Subbotina 403) ; 5) la réalisation de deux transects Terre-Mer permettent de comprendre les structures liées à l'inversion de la marge ; 6) l'analyse des paléo-champs de contraintes révèle plusieurs régimes tectoniques liées aux développement des structures tectoniques; 8) finalement cette thèse propose un vision nouvelle de l'évolution tectonique de la marge nord de la mer Noire orientale, qui subit une inversion depuis le Paléocène, en présentant des cartes de reconstitutions de son évolution depuis le Trias supérieur. / This study is focused on the main structural features of the Eastern Crimean Mountains (CM) and of their closest offshore, with a purpose to derive and reconstruct the tectonic evolution of the northern inverted margin of the Eastern Black Sea. This study was inspired because the Late Triassic-Early Jurassic age of the oldest exposed flysch-like rocks (so-called Tauric Group) “was” defined as 60 to 110 my younger, namely as the Albian (Middle Cretaceous).The aim of this thesis was to obtain by field observations, new dating of rocks, structural analysis, stress-field analysis and seismic interpretation allowing reconsidering the geology of the CM. The main findings of the thesis are: (1) the Lower Cretaceous sediments have a much wider spatial distribution in the Eastern CM; (2) the presence of two flysch units of different age: the youngest flysch unit of the Early Cretaceous age and the oldest, the Tauric Gp and Middle-Jurassic flysch; (3) the structural analysis in the Eastern CM resulted in new structural geological map of the Eastern CM and showed the evidence of extensional tectonics during the Cretaceous and of compressional structures during the Cenozoic; (4) two-stage compression: 1) during the Paleocene-Early Eocene and 2) during the Oligocene-Middle Pliocene were confirmed by interpretation of seismic lines offshore, correlated with the “Subbotina-403” well; (5) both geological and geophysical data in the on-and- off shore transects evidence connection of structures in the northern inverted Black Sea margin; (6) the paleostress analysis of the brittle fault-slip data allow distinguishing of several tectonic regimes responsible for the developments of main tectonic structures of the study area; (8) finally, this thesis presents a new vision of the tectonic evolution of the northern inverted part of the Eastern Black Sea illustrated with paleotectonic maps providing the reconstruction for each main stage of its geological history since the Late Triassic.