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Mangyshlak Peninsula is located on the east coast of the Caspian Sea. Nature is harsh and it is amazing. Replaced by flat steppe mountains takyrs, lifeless salt marshes and sandy deserts. In winter it is freezing and almost snowless summer nowhere to hide from the scorching rays of the sun. Mangyshlak - a unique nature reserve. There, "in the reserved box, assembled the entire arsenal of diverse manifestations of the nature of the desert" - writes Professor BA Fedorovich. Once the entire peninsula is the bottom of an ancient ocean.





takyr



Sands



In one of the most picturesque places of the peninsula, the Ak - Mouse, in the mountains west of Aktau, near the village of Taushik worth chalky mountain. If you look at it from one side, the mountain resembles a huge white tent, but on the other - like a sleeping lion, put his huge head on his paws. Therefore they called the mountain - Shergala, which translated from the Turkmen means "Lion Mountain" or "Lion Mountain". Under this mountain archaeologists discovered a whole town - the remains of the fortress walls.



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A very interesting phenomenon and maloobyasnimoe - concretions. Nodules (from the Latin concretio - fusion, thickening), nodules, mineral formation of rounded forms in sedimentary rocks or recent sediments. It is believed that the centers of contraction may be grains of minerals, rock fragments, shells, teeth and bones of fish, the remains of plants and others. Among the various forms of spherical nodules predominate, sometimes ellipsoidal, disk-shaped and irregular - srostkovye.



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Mangyshlak Mountains, it is difficult to confuse with others. They are not high (the highest peak of 556 m Besshoky.) Often canopies. They are often very interesting, layered coloring. The base, for example, white chalk formed above a sharp linear boundary with a layer of pink limestone and the top of a typical yellowish - gray. And all this is a unique, layered textures, as the layers of sediment is not the same density and different prone to erosion (especially clearly, layering is visible on the coast). Deposits at the foot of green clay merge with yellow, pink, red clay or chalky white output, and the higher they go into a yellowish-brown Sarmatian limestone. You can find the teeth of ancient sharks, from small to large, 10 - 12 centimeters.



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