This article provides a brief description of the modern Lake Alakol. Generalized and analyzed materials of research on the Alakol depression. The description of the origin and sequence of the formation of the Alakol depression, the time and features of the formation of Lake Alakol caused by global climatic and tectonic processes is given. The influence of global climatic cataclysms on the flow of rivers into Lake Alakol, which led to the formation of large deltas, which divided it into two independent reservoirs, is described. the process of the final formation of Lake Alakol.
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