Abstract
The landlocked Aral Sea, which is dying off at present (Fig. 1), was a widespread weaksalty basin with abundant life at least in the 1960s. Then its level started to drop rapidly, the area of the lake decreased to a quarter of its former size, and its volume was reduced tenfold. The ecological crisis of the Aral Sea is considered to be the effect of excessive water intake from the feeding tributaries, Amu Darya and Syr Darya, for irrigation. Did a similar catastrophe occur in the past, or is it an exclusively anthropogenic phe� nomenon.
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