Ebook: The Diversity of Russian Estuaries and Lagoons Exposed to Human Influence

Specific Features of Estuaries, Lagoons, Limans: Concepts and Terms -- Estuaries and Lagoons of the Russian Arctic Seas -- Estuaries, Lagoons, and Limans of the Marginal Seas of Northeast Asia -- Lagoons of the Black Sea -- Lagoons of the Smallest Russian Sea -- Transboundary Lagoons of the Baltic Sea -- Neva Bay: A Technogenic Lagoon of the Eastern Gulf of Finland (Baltic Sea) -- The White Sea as an Estuarine System -- The Diversity of Russian Estuaries.;This volume describes the complex characteristics of almost all Russian coastal estuaries systematized in the following regions: the coasts of the White Sea, the Barents Sea, the Kara Sea, the Laptev Sea, the East Siberian Sea, the Chukchi Sea, the Black Sea, the Sea of Azov, the Baltic Sea, the Sea of Okhotsk, the Sea of Japan and the Bering Seas. The part on the Baltic Sea includes a detailed description of the Kaliningrad coast and the Gulf of Finland. Apart from the geology and morphology, this book also looks at the anthropogenic effects on shores as well as at hydrological conditions, local climate and water level characteristics, and at economic use of lagoons.