Climate Changes and the Caspian Sea Level Fluctuations in the Holocene and Historical Time

A. S. Aliev, S. S. Veliev, and E. N. Tagieva

The influence of climate changes in Eurasia on the Caspian Sea level fluctuations in the Holocene is studied on the basis of historical data. The correspondence of the Late Khvalyn transgression to the time of the thawing of the European (Scandinavian) ice cap is revealed as well as that of the climatic optimum of the Holocene to the Boreal period (10–8 thousand years ago). In the next New- Caspian epoch, the Caspian Sea regression occurred. In the historical time, the maxima of cold snaps and Caspian Sea level are registered every five centuries.