Kalibek Explained

Kalibek
Other Name:Қалыбек / Калибек
Coords:53.8667°N 107°W
Pushpin Map:Kazakhstan
Catchment:2660sqkm
Length:17km (11miles)
Width:7.3km (04.5miles)
Area:110sqkm
Max-Depth:2m (07feet)
Volume:0.6km3
Shore:70km (40miles)
Elevation:85.6m (280.8feet)

Kalibek (Kazakh: Қалыбек; Russian: Калибек)[1] [2] is a bittern salt lake in Taiynsha District, North Kazakhstan Region, Kazakhstan.[3]

Taiynsha town, the administrative center of the district, lies 45km (28miles) to the west of the lake.

Geography

Kalibek lies in the southern part of the Ishim Plain, southwest of the Russian border.[4] It is an endorheic lake located in a depression between Shaglyteniz to the west and Kishi-Karoy to the east. Alabota lake lies 8km (05miles) to the ESE.[5] [6] Kalibek is fed mainly by snow and rain. The lake bottom is clayey and its shores are low and gently-sloping. Its surface greatly decreases after the spring floods.[7]

A number of intermittent small streams flow into the lakeshore, the two main ones from the southwest. Ushsay, a small, narrow lake located in the northeast, is connected to Kalibek by a channel. Formerly there was exploitation of salt for commercial purposes at the lake.[8]

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Notes and References

  1. https://www.egfntd.kz/upload/NKRK/GK_RK_11-2009new.pdf қазақстан республикасының мемлекеттік жіктеуіші - КЛАССИФИКАТОР АДМИНИСТРАТИВНО – ТЕРРИТОРИАЛЬНЫХ ОБЪЕКТОВ
  2. https://moxnpn.ru/kazakhstan/89-ploshhad-ozer-kazaxstana-tablica.html Площадь озер Казахстана (Таблица)
  3. Web site: N-42 Topographic Chart (in Russian). 29 August 2022.
  4. https://investinsko.kz/index.php?mod=page&do=view&rel=Poleznye_iskopaemye_i_vodnye_resursy North Kazakhstan Region - Minerals and Water Resources
  5. http://nblib.library.kz/elib/library.kz/Jurnal/%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B4_05_2019/Nazarova,Dmitriyev.pdf The Origin of the Depression Lake Systems
  6. [Google Earth]
  7. http://bse.sci-lib.com/article057840.html Калибек
  8. Saline lakes of Northern Kazakhstan: Geochemical correlations of elements and controls on their accumulation in water and bottom sediments . 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2019.05.013 . 2019ApGC..107....8K . Kolpakova . M. N. . Gaskova . O. L. . Naymushina . O. S. . Karpov . A. V. . Vladimirov . A. G. . Krivonogov . S. K. . Applied Geochemistry . 2019 . 107 . 8 .