Sub-Ural Plateau

The Sub-Ural Plateau (

Emba River

that flows across it.

In Kazakhstan, the majority of the plateau is within the Aktobe Region, with small northwester part in the West Kazakhstan Region. In Russia, a small northern part is within the Orenburg Oblast.

The plateau is a gently sloping flatland with elevations ranging from 450m in the northeast and 100m in the southwest.

Ural River

.

The northern part is dissected by deep valleys and ravines, in the south the watersheds are more flat and the network of ravines is less dense. In terms of vegetation the plateau is split between Eurasian steppe zone and

Gobi-type desert zone.^[3] The watersheds near the Mugalzhar feature buttes (steep-sided flat-topped isolated hills), indicative of the elevations before the area was washed out.^[2]

Rivers Emba and Ilek flow across it and rivers Khobda [ru], Uil, Saghyz and Temir have sources there.^[2]

The western part of the plateau between the Or-Ilek highland and Khobda river, centered in the city of Aktobe is commonly known as the Aktobe Sub-Urals (Russian: Aktobinskoye priuralye) and the part south of it, adjacent to the Mugalzhar Range and bounded by the Temir River, is known as the Cis-Mugalzhars (Russian: Predmugalzharye).^[2]

References

^ Флора меловых возвышенностей Северо-Западного Казахстана
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Р.А.Сегедин, Рассказ о геологии Актюбинской области и богатствах ее недр, 2002, p. 10.
^ ^a ^b Сафронова И. Н.,СРЕДНЕМАСШТАБНАЯ КАРТА РАСТИТЕЛЬНОСТИ СТЕПНОЙ ЧАСТИ ПОДУРАЛЬСКОГО ПЛАТО (АКТЮБИНСКАЯ ОБЛ.)
^ Прикаспийская низменность, Great Russian Encyclopedia

[1] Флора меловых возвышенностей Северо-Западного Казахстана

[sege-2] Р.А.Сегедин, Рассказ о геологии Актюбинской области и богатствах ее недр, 2002, p. 10.

[safo-3] Сафронова И. Н.,СРЕДНЕМАСШТАБНАЯ КАРТА РАСТИТЕЛЬНОСТИ СТЕПНОЙ ЧАСТИ ПОДУРАЛЬСКОГО ПЛАТО (АКТЮБИНСКАЯ ОБЛ.)

[4] Прикаспийская низменность, Great Russian Encyclopedia

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