The Kuma-Manych Depression is a geological depression in southwestern Russia that marks the boundary between the Russian Plain to the north and Ciscaucasia to the south. It takes its name from the Kuma and Manych rivers that run through it. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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The Kuma–Manych Depression (Russian: Кумо-Манычская впадина, romanized: Kumo-Manychskaya vpadina), also called the Kuma–Manych Lowland or the Manych Trench, is a long, narrow geological depression in southwestern Russia that separates the Russian Plain to the north from the Ciscaucasian foreland to the south.
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The Kuma-Manych Depression (Russian: Кумо-Манычская впадина, romanized: Kumo-Manychskaya vpadina), also called the Kuma-Manych Lowland or the Manych Trench, is a long, narrow geological depression in southwestern Russia that separates the Russian Plain to the north from the Ciscaucasian foreland to the south.
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The Kuma-Manych Depression (Russian: Кумо-Манычская впадина, romanized: Kumo-Manychskaya vpadina), also called the Kuma-Manych Lowland or the Manych Trench, is a long, narrow geological depression in southwestern Russia that separates the Russian Plain to the north from the Ciscaucasian foreland to the south.
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Formed by tectonic subsidence along an ancient fault zone in the basement of the Scythian Plate, the depression has repeatedly served as a marine strait linking the Black Sea and Caspian Sea basins over the past several million years, most recently during the late Pleistocene.
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