Caspian Sea: References & Edit History
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Assorted References
- characteristics of saline lakes
- economic importance
- hydrology
- petroleum resources and reserves
physiography of
- Elburz Mountains
- Iran
- Kazakstan
- Ural River
- In Ural River
Additional Reading
A.N. Kosarev and E.A. Yablonskaya, The Caspian Sea (1994); and Andrey G. Kostianoy and Aleksey N. Kosarev (eds.), The Caspian Sea Environment (2005, reissued 2011), provide overviews of the sea. A useful map of the Caspian region is National Geographic Society, Caspian Region: Promise and Peril (1999). A review of scientific, environmental, and political issues includes Iwao Kobori and Michael H. Glantz (eds.), Central Eurasian Water Crisis: Caspian, Aral, and Dead Seas (1998); and Michael H. Glantz and Igor S. Zonn, Scientific, Environmental, and Political Issues in the Circum-Caspian Region (1997). Russian scientific treatments include A.N. Kosarev, Gidrologiia Kaspiĭskogo i Aral’skogo moreĭ (1975), a study of the hydrology of the Caspian and Aral seas; S.S. Baĭdin and A.N. Kosarev (eds.), Kaspiĭskoe more: gidrologiia i gidrokhimiia (1986), an analysis of hydrology and chemistry of the Caspian Sea; and N.A. Krylov (ed.), Kaspiĭskoe more: geologiia i neftegazonosnost’ (1987), a survey of submarine geology focusing on the Caspian gas and oil resources. English-language research findings on the sea include V.A. Vronskiy, “The Holocene Stratigraphy and Paleogeography of the Caspian Sea,” International Geology Review, 29(1):14–24 (1987); Yu.A. Karpychev, “Fluctuations of the Caspian Sea Level as an Indicator of Global Climatic Changes,” Nuclear Geophysics, 4(1):57–70 (1990); and Pinar O. Yilmaz and Gary H. Isaksen (eds.), Oil and Gas of the Greater Caspian Area (2007).
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Add new Web site: CNN Climate - The planets largest lake is shrinking fast. Experts fear it may never recover. | Dec 20, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute - The Caspian Sea: threats to its biological resources and environmental security. | Oct 25, 2024 | ||
| Links added. | May 17, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Lakepedia - Caspian Sea. | Mar 31, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: GlobalSecurity.org - Caspian Sea. | Nov 05, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: GlobalSecurity.org - Caspian Sea. | Nov 05, 2022 | ||
| Top Questions updated. | Nov 30, 2021 | ||
| Add new Web site: LiveScience - Caspian Sea: Largest Inland Body of Water. | Dec 06, 2019 | ||
| Added cross-references. | Nov 10, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: Jewish Virtual Library - Khazars. | Apr 27, 2017 | ||
| Media added. | Jan 06, 2016 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Jan 06, 2016 | ||
| Bibliography revised and updated. | Jan 06, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: NASA - Earth Observatory - Ice on the Caspian Sea. | Dec 10, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Encyclopædia Iranica - Caspian Sea. | Dec 10, 2013 | ||
| Updated geologic time data. | May 17, 2010 | ||
| Added correct cross-reference to Kazakhstan article. | Sep 24, 2009 | ||
| Geologic time data updated. | Sep 24, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - Geography - Geography of Caspian Sea. | Jul 30, 2008 | ||
| Article revised. | Jun 14, 2002 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 28, 1999 |