Turan Depression

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The Turan Depression, Turan Lowland or Turanian Basin is a

The part of the depression adjacent to the Aral Sea is drainless. It includes a network of temporary streams usually ending in sor salt flats, which seasonally become salt lakes.^[4]

Three of the largest cities in the Turan Depression are

In the Pliocene and Pleistocene, the territory of the modern Turan depression was the bottom of the vast Turan Sea, which was divided into the modern Caspian and Aral seas about ten thousand years ago.^[6]

See also

• Kazakh semi-desert
• Turgay Depression

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