The Aral Sea Encyclopedia - F ppsx

... in the Aral basin in the first quarter of 1000 B.C. This period was preceded by the large-scale unification of local tribes in 7th–6th centuries B.C. The most developed state in the Circum -Aral ... in 1995, the American producer, Christopher Hooke, made a 14 minute documentary film, ‘‘Women of the Aral. ’’ The film was shot in the former fishery port of Aralsk, Kazakhst...

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... of changes in the landscapes over the course of their utilization and the tracing of their evolution as affected by desertification. Problem of the Aral Sea – the generalized notion of the sea s ... by the guidelines of the Facilities Board. Projects on theAralSea funded by INTAS (INTAS-CNRS-DFG call for proposals for research on the Aral Sea basin, 2000): 1. ‘‘Math...

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... of the Institute of Geography of the USSR AS. The main objectives of the Center were the outlining of the basic lines of research on the Aral problem, coordination of research efforts, and information ... independent states, the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Republic of Kazakhstan. They share the suffering of all of the consequences of the Aral Sea drying. But...

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... of the International Fund for saving the Aral Sea (IFAS) – see Interna- tional Fund for saving the Aral Sea. Bottom soils of the Aral Sea* – the soft, unconsolidated soils prevailing in the sea. ... hills. The northern and eastern shores of the island are flat. The southern part of the island gets flooded in some places. Biodiversity of the Aral Sea Regio...

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... Circum- Aral (often called the Amudarya delta) deltas, originating in the Tuyamuyun narrow from the sea shores and at the foot of the chinks (cliffs) of the Ustyurt Plateau; in the lower reaches of ... carried out field and laboratory investigations in the southern part of the Circum -Aral area. Special attention was focused on studies of the northern part of the So...

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... of a scoured bank. Delta of the Amudarya* – located to the north of the line connecting the Takhiatash Cape and the eastern tip of an offspur of the Ustyurt Plateau (north- ward of the Buten-Tau ... Islands. 88 D Desertification of the southern circum -Aral area were cut off from sea lagoons. The largest of these groups were Kamyshli-Bash, Chumyshli-Kul, Rimsky, and other...

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... shore of the Small Aral Sea (see) 20 km to the south-west of the Tarangly Cape. The bay is shallow. The fishery area Shemyshkol (now closed) was found on the southern shore of the bay. Encyclopedia ... of modern forms of life on the Earth and the established dynamic equilibrium in the biosphere in general. The report of the UN Environmental Program of 1992, refer...

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... degra- dation and the interruption of the fishery activities that were the key economic sector for this water body. Considering the effects of wind drift of salts from the drying Aral Sea, the stock ... level of deposits f ormed as a result of the disastrous drop of the sea level as well as scales of ground deflation due to drying out and desertification of the Circum...

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... opened in the northern part of the sea on the shore of the Sarychaganak Bay. Not long before this event, the first biological investigations of the sea s flora and fauna began. The expedition of Butenkov ... structure of the Amudarya delta. He was the first to formulate a hypothesis about the effect of floods in the Amudarya delta on Aral water level fluctuations. I...

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... by the Turkestan Branch of the Russian Geographical Society in the series, ‘‘Scientific results of I.S. Zonn et al., The Aral Sea Encyclopedia, DOI 10.1007/97 8-3 -5 4 0-8 508 8-5 _10, Ó Springer-Verlag ... proves once more the hazard of such acclimatization efforts. Perhaps the free-living Far-Eastern invertebrate and algae were introduced into the Aral basin. Th...

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