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The Black Sea and the Sea of Azov

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The Ocean Basins and Margins

Abstract

The Black Sea is one of the world’s largest marginal seas, with an area of 432,000 km2 and a volume of 534,000 km3. Most of the basin is deeper than 2000 m (Fig. 1) and the maximum depth reached is 2206 m. It is connected by a narrow passage, the Kerch Strait, to the shallow Sea of Azov which has an area of about 37,500 km2 (excluding the Sivash or Putrid Sea) and a volume of about 470 km3. The average depth of the Sea of Azov is close to 12 m (Fig. 2). Sill depth between the two seas at the Kerch Strait is about 5 m. The Black Sea is connected to the Mediterranean Sea via the shallow Bosporus (sill depth about 50 m). The Sivash or Putrid Sea is a shallow area separated from the Sea of Azov by a 110-km-long sand bar called the Arabatskaya Strelka.

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Ross, D.A. (1977). The Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. In: Nairn, A.E.M., Kanes, W.H., Stehli, F.G. (eds) The Ocean Basins and Margins. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3036-3_11

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