Essays Tagged: "Aral"

Desiccation of the Aral Sea

Desiccation of the Aral SeaTHE SITUATIONThe Aral Sea in the former USSR, the CIS, formerly the world's fourth largest l ... study I will explain the problems and hopefully conclude with a solution.THE PROGRESSIVE PROBLEMThe Aral Sea is a huge, shallow, saline body of water located in the deserts of the south-central CIS. I ... flow and precipitation on its surface on the one hand and evaporation from the sea on the other.The Aral depression has repeatedly been flooded and desiccated. Until the present century, fluctuations ...

(6 pages) 47 1 2.8 May/2004

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Problems of Aral Sea

Still recently in 1961 the area of the Aral Sea which has arisen in Turanian lowland 35 thousand years ago, exceeded 66 thousand sq. km. It ... . In school textbooks these data are still given in present time, no less than on geographical maps Aral is depicted as the enormous blue mirror on the Earth. Superfluous confirmation of one of the ma ... to compete with speeds with what people have learned to kill wildlife.There are many reasons of the Aral accident but as we know main of them this very sharp reduction of a river drain. Earlier in the ...

(10 pages) 33 0 2.0 Feb/2005

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays