Evolution of Marine Mouth of the Chernaya River (Sevastopol Region)

R. Ya. Minkovskaya1, A. N. Demidov2

1 Marine Hydrophysical Institute of RAS, Sevastopol, Russia

2 Sevastopol Society of Geographers, Sevastopol, Russia

Abstract

Structure of the marine mouth of the Chernaya River includes natural and artificial interconnected components. As a result of economic activity (mainly, in the middle of the last century) natural processes of mouthformation were broken, hydrography and morphometry of the mouth and its type are changed. On the basis of the hydrographic survey executed in 2015, cartographic materials (since 1856 to present), aerial photographs, satellite and literary data the evolution of marine mouth of the Chernaya River is studied, its river border is refined, and also current state of the mouth reach and the Inkerman liman are considered.

Keywords

marine mouth of the Chernaya River, changes of hydrographic parameters, past and present state

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