( My apologies for posting this right now, I passed out last night before I pressed publish.) The Caspian Depression, or the Caspian Lowlands, is the area of land just of the northern shore of the Caspian sea. It is one of the largest flat lowland areas in all of central Asia. It is over 200,000 square kilometers in size and reaches into both Russia and Kazakhstan. Researchers believe that it was formed due to tectonic plate movements and that the Caspian sea was separated from the lowlands in ancient times, forming a massive salt lake. Some lakes remained here and there, but slowly disappeared as the time went on. Aridization and erosion continued on in this region, with fluctuating sea levels causing further Aeolic relief formation. What a strange place for a desert indeed, being right off from one of the world's largest enclosed bodies of water. When it comes to deserts, this one looks more like the run of the mill idea of what most think of.
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