Factors and criteria of the morphostructural zoning and the main types of morphostructures of the North-West of the Black Sea

Abstract

The principles of morphostructural zoning are presented on the example of the North-West of the Black Sea. Research techniques and criteria for distinguishing the morphostructural regions are discussed. In the morphostructural province of the Black Sea the following subprovinces were identified: shelf under conditions of active and passive wave action, continental slope with non-wave accumulation, deep-sea depression. Fragment of the map of morphostructural zoning of the North-West of the Black Sea at 1:500 000 scale is presented. Main morphogenetic types of morphostructures of the shelf, continental slope and deep sea basin of the Black sea are given. The characteristics of the selected morphostructural taxa are described.