Relief-forming processes at the emerged floor of the Aral Sea near former Kazalinsk delta of Syrdarya River

Abstract

The former floor of the Aral Sea, long developed under water and now emerged, becomes the area of subaerial exogenous processes, rosy eolian and halogenous ones. Eolian processes result in diverse biilt-up landforms or deflation hollows, depending on the floor sediments composition. The processes are responsible for rapid changes in the primary surf ace of the marine plains. At present it seems of great importance to study the rate of the exogenous processes as well as the transformation of the primary landforms of the emerged sea floor into zonal arid morphosculpture.