Black Sea Depression

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Black Sea Depression Russian Причерноморская впадина Ukrainian Причорноморська западина
Tectonic structure of Ukraine  1. Ukrainian shield  8. Donets plate  9. Black Sea Depression 10. Sarmatian Kraton / Scythian Plate 11. Crimean Mountains ,       part of the Cimmerian fold belt
The Black Sea Depression highlighted on a topographic map of Ukraine

The Black Sea Depression is a depression in southern Ukraine and forms the southernmost part of the Eastern European table . It borders in the north on the Ukrainian Shield , in the northeast on the Donets Plateau , in the south on the Black and Azov Seas and in the west on the Carpathian Mountains , except for the Crimea, where it borders on the Sarmatian Table (or Scythian Plate ). It stretches from the Danube Delta in Budschak to the city of Mariupol in Donetsk Oblast and includes the lower Dnepr and its delta , the Sywasch on the border with Crimea, and extends inland to Krywyj Rih and Zaporizhia . Geomorphologically , the Black Sea Depression is subdivided into the actual part and the Azov-Kuban Depression .

It includes the oblasts of Odessa , Dnipropetrovsk , Mykolaiv , Kherson , Zaporizhia , Donetsk and the Autonomous Republic of Crimea .

The depression was created in the Cretaceous Period . The natural resources include iron and magnesium ore , petroleum , natural gas , gypsum and salts .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Black Sea Depression. In: Encyclopedia of Ukraine . Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the Universities of Alberta and Toronto , accessed October 15, 2014 .