Karagie Depression.
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The Karagie Depression (translation from Turkic "The black mouth"). Our depression attract to itself of tourists. Everybody, who was lucky enough to have visited to the Mangishlak peninsula, obligatory visit this unusual place. Karagie is third at peace in depth (132 below world's ocean-level).

It gave-refuge to species of deserts and all series of animals, which doesn't found most of nowhere. Here we can see sourses, which full of water now and attract attention of its blue light in the white saline rim. Here there are: rocky desert of Gobi type, desert with fixed of flora, shrubby kind of desert with its tamarisks, in other words - Kazakh lilac; running sands.

It is said, very long time ago at this place existed lake named Batyr - "The brave warrior". Then depression formed. Its length - 40 km, width - 10 km. Formation of depression had been connected with process of lixiviation saline rock, subsidence and karsts processes, which had a place on the coast of Caspian Sea.

Here and there slopes of earth hills had been pitted of rodents - gophers and jerboas. Birds of prey soar overhead. Small and big "evil spirits" type of locust, scarab beetle, scorpion - it isn't news on our peninsula, and its in all splendors here. And of course, various birds, which eat through such insects.

There are partridges, giant lizards, snakes, tortoises, wildcat - manul, caracals, foxes, hares, corsacs.

Some years scientists of Kazakhstan conducted investigations in the depression. It turn out, that almost waterless the Karagie depression it is natural generation of cumulonimbus. Cumulonimbus formed in the result of ascending air in the summer. It showed of ground-basis observations and photographs received from space satellite.

Groundwater gradually dissolved rocks, and exploited deep and narrow precipices. Walls of such deepening extended and created huge craters and caves. When the caves extended, ceiling and walls broke down. This process recurred at all times.

As a result huge interstices had formed, which filled up of crushed rock: appeared craters, blind valleys, recesses, grottos, narrows, natural shafts. In that way the Karagie depression developed, until received modern contour. These processes don't stop now, about that precipices and ledges testify.

In the central part of Karagie there are many native rocks, which remained of surface destruction.

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