The Aral Sea Encyclopedia - R doc

... and others) are also in R. K. In the mountains, the argali are found, and in the Tien-Shan is the snow leopard. In the Caspian Sea and in the Ural River, herring, sea roach, sturgeon, and starred ... Sarysu. In summer, many rivers d ry out. The Ily, Karatal, Aksu, and Lepsa R ivers bring their waters into Balkhash Lake. The rivers are regulated by 180 reservoirs, the...

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... find beautiful recreational zones and beaches here. The deltas of the Amudarya, the major river of Central Asia, and the Syrdarya bringing their waters into the Aral Sea were famous for their biodiversity, ... types of the relief on the terrain around the Aral may be attributed to the strictly asymmetric structure of the depres- sion. The eastern part of the depr...

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... Natural Sciences and the Department on Circum -Aral Environ- mental Problems (former Research Center ‘ Aral ’ of the USSR Academy of Sciences). This is the only research institution in the Central ... and Darganata. Nine major river water intake structures are overseen by the authority. The Authority for Amudarya Inter-Republican Canals (UPRADIK) is responsible for the operatio...

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... southwestern current generated by north and northeastern winds and the northeastern current. Severe wind-generated water-level fluctua- tions are recorded in the bay, with range reaching 3 m. They are ... describes the geological structure and history of the Aral depression; provides data on stratigraphy and lithology of the Paleogene, Neogene, and Quaternary depos- its in the C...

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... to prepare and publish within a rather a short time the ‘‘Brief Pilot of the Aral Sea and the Amudarya Delta.’’ But there were other problems related to the Aral. In the early 1920s, a period of ... on, first, environmental protection, conservation, and restoration of the Aral Sea History of Aral Sea investigations H 113 only in Rus’ but in cross-border territories as...

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... of the region. Before the 1960s, the share of the sea transport over A.S. (regular voyages Aralsk-Muinak, Aralsk – port Taldyk) was rather large in cargo traffic. Today, with the gradual restoration ... shales, horn- fels, limestones, marble and granites. Near the foot of the mountains, springs are common. The greater part of the K. territory is covered by semi-overgrown m...

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... A.S. The Naryn was formed from the con- fluence of the Greater and Smaller Naryn, its headwaters being located in the Northern Tien Shan. The Karadarya was formed from the confluence of the Tara ... flow of the Naryn, Karadarya, Chirchik, and S. in the stretch from the Toktogul to the Chardarya reservoir, a total length of 1000 km, is regulated by the Naryn-Syrdarya ca...

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... the southern part of the Circum -Aral area. Special attention was focused on studies of the northern part of the Southern Circum -Aral area, which were in the A.S. margins that were most severely ... of the water regime in the Amudarya delta and the sea level drop in the considered region. The general tendency of these Circum -Aral expedition C 71 The whole eastern...

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... ‘‘Desertification Atlas of the Southern and Eastern Circum -Aral Area’’ (see). Desertification map of the southern circum -Aral area – prepared in 1988 at scale 1:200,000 by the Geography Department ... headers. Along the riverbed, narrow, elevated levees with gently-rolling microrelief are clearly visible in the delta head where they rise by 2–3 m over the peripheral plain. The...

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... 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, referring to the Aral Sea crisis, states, ... states, international 92 E Ecological research and monitoring of the Aral Sea deltas E Eastern (Aral) Sea – the remaining part of A.S. located to the east of the me...

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