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The Atlas of Caspian Sea Hydromorphology
an Sea. These distances are less in west and south, but in north and east
the distances between the equilibrium lines are too far.
continental shelf, continental The main morphological structure map of
the Caspian seabed is drawn based on the map of bedslope angles in
which some structures such as slope, and abysses are distinguishable.
The maximal bed slope angle is 30 degrees but its width is not the
same all over the sea bed (Figure 5). Meanwhile, in various parts of
the sea, the final edge of continental shelf is in various depths of
sea bed; in south and west of Caspian Sea, it is situated in depth of
50-100 meters, and in other parts it is in depth of 100-130 meters.
As it is clear in the map, the continental slope edge exceeds the line
connecting the 30 degrees slope dots, begins from continental slope,
