DACIAN BASIN - GeoEcoMar

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Foreword and Acknowledgements
Stoica (University of Bucharest), Victoria Lubenescu. (Prospectiuni S.A., Bucharest)
and Ion Andreescu (Geological Institute of Romania).
We wish to acknowledge the help of Viorela Anastasiu (atlas author) and Dan
Dumitru (editor), who permitted the use of the Editura Didactica Printing House
maps as basis for some of our figures. Dorina Tambrea (Danubian Energy Consulting,
Bucharest) and Corneliu Dinu (University of Bucharest) kindly allowed use of
some of their Black Sea figures.
The senior author is deeply indebted to Joe Gencarelli (Lynchburg, Virginia, US).
Joe’s support and constant encouragement were important for the achievement
of the present book. He read the entire manuscript and improved the English language
of the book.
Special thanks go to the „task force” represented by Sorin Rădan, Cristina Poenaru,
Joe Gencarelli and Carmen Biriş for their patience and commitment in the
final, long phase of manuscript correction.
The senior author acknowledges the basic support for publishing this book
from the National Authority for Scientific Research – Romania. Part of the data presented
in the book comes from the scientific projects developed within the Romanian
National Research and Development Plan CERES 4-246/2004 (“Global factors
influence on the evolution of the Dacian Basin”) and IDEI 144/2007 (“The effect of
the Messinian desiccation on the evolution of the Dacian Basin”).