Talk:Sea of Azov

message: Looks fairly fishlike to me; still amusing. I hope we'll finally get that IRL X-COM squad now: http://english.pravda.ru/science/mysteries/07-02-2007/87167-alien_monster-0 - Zelaron 14:07, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Fishermen catch "alien" in Sea of Azov

message: How come no mention of Azov Campaigns?
:Be Bold.  Mention them. --King Hildebrand 18:19, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Azov Campaigns?

message: Plato’s writings report that the Island of Atlantis was not an island in the open sea; it was created by the ancient Atlanteans by excavating an incredible ditch around a fertile plain, located north of a great sea, and surrounded by a boundless continent, circa 11,600 BP. A massive earthquake caused the island to sink, creating a new sea which, according to Eagle/Wind-Atlantis Research Team, is the Sea of Azov. The violent earthquakes and floods left the new sea “impassable and impenetrable, because there is a shoal of mud in the way.” The Sea of Azov was blocked by shoals of mud at that time, and would still be today without regular dredging. Eagle/Wind locates the Island of Atlantis beneath the Sea of Azov and on the adjacent fertile plains to the west in Ukraine and to the east in Krasnodar Kray, Russia. Their research is based on tectonic evidence of a massive earthquake centered at Kerch, in the late Pleistocene/early Holocene and evidence of a great flood at the end of the Younger Dryas ice age, in 11,600 BP. This date corresponds exactly with the date set by an aged Egyptian priest for the destruction of Atlantis, as recorded in The Dialogues by Plato.
References:
Climate Science: Investigating Climatic and Environmental Processes, Abrupt Climate Change: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/ctl/abrupt.html
Manifestations of young tectonic activity in the southern Azov and Kerch fault zones (Crimea), A. A. Nikonov Joint Institute of Physics of the Earth, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. GEOTECTONICS, English Translation, VOL. 28, NO. 5, APRIL 1995, Russian Edition: SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1994. http://eos.wdcb.rssi.ru/transl/geot/9405/pap02.htm
LATE GLACIAL GREAT FLOOD IN THE BLACK SEA AND CASPIAN SEA, TCHEPALYGA, Andrey, Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Science, 29, Staromonetniy per, Moscow 109017 Russia. http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2003AM/finalprogram/abstract_63243.htm
THE ALTAI FLOOD. Keenan Lee, 4 October 2004. 
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:LV1I2rbyQJEJ:www.mines.edu/academic/geology/faculty/klee/altai.doc&hl=en
VULNERABILITY TO EARTHQUAKES IN UKRAINE, I.I.Rokityansky, Institute of Geophysics, Ukraine. http://www.iiasa.ac.at/Research/RMS/july2000/Papers/absroki.pdf
Map of Kerch faults. East Oil Company, http://www.eastoil.com/graphics/11az.jpg
:could somebody put this in the article? and, person who wrote this, please sign your posts. Sompm (talk) 17:49, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Atlantis in the Sea of Azov

message: The landlocked Mediterranean is virtually tideless.  It is around 4000 km long, and has a volume of about 4 million km3.  Its connection to the oceans of the world is only 14 km wide.
Connected to the Mediterranean by a channel only 1 km wide is the Black Sea.  It is a quarter of the length and a twentieth of the volume of the Med.  It has effectively no tides.
Connected to the Black sea by a channel 4 km wide is the Sea of Azov.  It is 340 km long and has a volume of only 400 km3.  Its maximum depth is only 15 metres, and most of it is less than 10 metres deep.  Whence come these phenomenal 5m tides?
For comparison, the world record tides in the Bay of Fundy are only three times this magnitude, while the mid ocean maximum is less than a metre.--King Hildebrand 18:44, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I have now commented out the reference to 5-metre tides.  I don't know that they don't exist, and I don't want to upset anyone.  But I can't see how the tidal action of moon and sun could pile up so little water so high.  It must deserve an article of its own as the steepest natural slope on the surface of any body of water with no net flow in the world.  Perhaps people go there from all over for unpowered water skiing?  Maybe there is a strong wind effect occasionally that blows all the water up to one end?  Maybe the 5 metres is measured horizontally on the beach, not vertically.  I simply don't know.  If I'm wrong, please get in touch!--King Hildebrand 15:10, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've now replaced "5-metre tides" with a definitive reference from the United States Hydrographic Office, based on actual tide-gauge readings. The old reference was copied accurately from the source  work, but as I understand it the source work now includes some user-generated content from "Britannica Knowledge Experts". It's definitely wrong in this instance!--217.155.32.221 (talk) 16:52, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: A Google search for "Britannica Knowledge Experts" doesn't turn up much. I wonder if it is extinct. If so, your finding suggests why. Dgndenver (talk) 12:25, 21 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tides?? 

message: The math doesn't work with respect to inflows and outflows as the article is currently expressed.
* +38.6 km^3 => River inflow
* +15.5 km^3 => Precipitation
* -34.6 km^3 => Evaporation
* +37 km^3 => inflow from Black Sea (+/- 1)
* -54 km^3 => outflow to Black Sea (+/- 1)
Total: +2.5 km^3 [+/- 2 km^3]
This indicates a net inflow.  The 17 km^3 net outflow comment is probably strictly with reference to the Black Sea itself and would seem to discount the other sources.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.16.215.129 (talk) 17:00, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Corrected. Thank you. 17 km3 was supposed to mean outflow of fresh water to the Black Sea, not the total water balance. Materialscientist (talk) 23:30, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Geology and bathymetry 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Not sure about your definition of shallow, but Lake Neusiedl is no more than 1.8 m (5 ft 11 in) deep. It's no tiny little lake, it's 36 km long and covers 315 square kilometers and it is the largest endorheic lake in Central Europe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Neusiedl  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.128.188.61 (talk) 16:59, 23 September 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: It might be a big lake, but it's not a sea. Bazonka (talk) 15:20, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  The shallowest sea in the world is Lake Neusiedl 

message: Where is the name "Temarinda" attested? It's not in Pliny's Naturalis Historia, here's what Pliny wrote about Maeotians and the Sea of Azov:
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0137%3Abook%3D4%3Achapter%3D24
77.234.148.154 (talk) 13:52, 13 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Temarinda" 

message: premise: I cannot access ref.11, otherwise I had not written this.
From the article Azov (city), I read that the Kipchaks seized the area in 1067. This suggests that the prince Asuf was killed "in TAKING THIS city" rather than "in DEFENDING HIS city" -- really, what started my doubts is that rarely the cities are named after the defeated side (and a resistance against a local counter-attack does not seem probable). In any case, he was an invader and thus the city was not HIS.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.29.59.56 (talk) 08:13, 22 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  pseudo-ethimology