Comments on: Yo, Pod https://habitablezone.com/2023/04/26/yo-pod-6/ Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:51:21 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: podrock https://habitablezone.com/2023/04/26/yo-pod-6/#comment-51871 podrock Thu, 27 Apr 2023 05:31:41 +0000 https://habitablezone.com/?p=99567#comment-51871 https://www.marineinsight.com/environment/azov-sea-facts/ https://www.marineinsight.com/environment/azov-sea-facts/

]]> By: podrock https://habitablezone.com/2023/04/26/yo-pod-6/#comment-51869 podrock Thu, 27 Apr 2023 02:57:08 +0000 https://habitablezone.com/?p=99567#comment-51869 The Azov is a strange body of water. Very shallow with a huge incoming sediment load. Might have been more of a playa before the Black Sea flooded after the Mediterranean filled in with rising sea levels at the end of the last ice age. Lots of salt deposits, especially where Crimea joins the mainland. You can see the salt flats there on Google Earth. If you zoom in, you can see the concentric nature of the spit deposits. Just because it doesn't have hurricanes doesn't mean it can't have sustained prevailing cyclonic winds. My guess are the are some buried bedrock structures that act as a buttress? The Wikipedia entry touches on this, but I have not done any deeper research. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_of_Azov The Azov is a strange body of water. Very shallow with a huge incoming sediment load. Might have been more of a playa before the Black Sea flooded after the Mediterranean filled in with rising sea levels at the end of the last ice age. Lots of salt deposits, especially where Crimea joins the mainland. You can see the salt flats there on Google Earth. If you zoom in, you can see the concentric nature of the spit deposits. Just because it doesn’t have hurricanes doesn’t mean it can’t have sustained prevailing cyclonic winds. My guess are the are some buried bedrock structures that act as a buttress?

The Wikipedia entry touches on this, but I have not done any deeper research.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_of_Azov

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