Contents
Part I Introduction
1
The Sea, Cradle of Divine Spirituality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3
Constantin Jurca ˘ and Alina Buzarna-Tihenea (Ga ˘lbeaza ˘)
2
Dobrudja, in the Mesopotamia of the West . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Marin Petris ¸or
3
Dobruja: A Unique, Intercultural and Spiritual Realm
at the Black Sea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Elena Laza ˘r and Henrieta Anis ¸oara S ¸ erban
4
About “Publius Ovidius Naso” ({ 17 p. Chr. n.) and His
Poems Written in the “Getae” Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Nicolae V. Dura ˘
5
The Global Warming and the Water Resources of the Earth . . . . . 79
Adrian Bavaru and Rodica Bercu
Part II Geology, Geophysics and Sedimentology
6
New Insights into the Black Sea Basin, in the Light
of the Reprocessing of Vintage Regional Seismic Data . . . . . . . . . . 91
Ioan Munteanu, Paolo Diviacco, Chiara Sauli, Corneliu Dinu,
Mihai Burca ˘, Nicolae Panin, and Giuseppe Brancatelli
7
Lithodynamics of the Coastal Zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Ruben D. Kosyan and Boris V. Divinskiy
8
Granulometry of Sediments in the Mamaia Bay Area . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Da ˘nuț I. Diaconeasa
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