LAKE URMIA – ITS PAST AND PRESENT

Authors

  • V.R. Boynagryan Chair of Cartography and Geomorphology, YSU, Armenia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46991/PYSU:C/2020.54.3.167

Keywords:

anthropogenic factor, climate, drought, drying out, Lake Urmia, Palaeolake

Abstract

For the first time, a diagram of Paleo-Urmia was drawn up – a lake that existed in the Late Pliocene-Pleistocene and at a water level of 1570 m had a connection with the Caspian Sea basin in the Pleistocene. Fluctuations in the lake level in the past and up to the 90s of the XX century were mainly associated with a natural factor (tectonics, climate change), and its catastrophic drying out, starting in 1998, is mainly due to the careless use of water resources of the lake’s drainage basin.

Published

2020-12-25

How to Cite

Boynagryan, V. (2020). LAKE URMIA – ITS PAST AND PRESENT. Proceedings of the YSU C: Geological and Geographical Sciences, 54(3 (253), 167–177. https://doi.org/10.46991/PYSU:C/2020.54.3.167

Issue

Section

Geography