Aral-Caspian Depression

Aral-Caspian Depression

The Aral-Caspian Depression is a lowland depression straddling Europe and Asia around the Aral Sea and Northern Caspian Sea. Its parts belong to Azerbaijan, Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan. The part within the Caspian drainage basin is called the Caspian Depression. The desert part to the East of the Caspian Depression and Caspian is called the Turan Depression.

In Azerbaijan, the Kura-Aras Lowland is part of the Aral-Caspian Depression.

References

*George Frederick Wright (1902) "Asiatic Russia", Chapter [http://books.google.com/books?id=DzwEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA25&lpg=PA25&dq=%22Aral-caspian+depression%22++-wikipedia&source=web&ots=2qOK2PlfAE&sig=sNR55YHu45ehz4Ajf_wiZII7rWQ#PPA28,M1 "Aral-Caspian Depression"] (at Google Books)


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