The Ob Plateau ( rus, Приобское плато, ''Priobskoye Plato''), is one of the great

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s of

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. Administratively it falls within

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and

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, Russia. The plateau is named after the

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and is part of its basin.

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/ref> Most of the territory of the plateau has been agriculturally developed, yielding grain crops as well as industrial crops.

Geography

The Ob Plateau is located in Altai Krai and Novosibirsk Oblast at the southern edge of the

West Siberian Plain The West Siberian Plain (russian: За́падно-Сиби́рская равни́на ''Zapadno-Sibirskaya ravnina'') is a large plain that occupies the western portion of Siberia, between the Ural Mountains in the west and the Yenisei River ...

. It extends roughly to the north of the foothills of the

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along the left bank of the north-flowing Ob River. To the west it descends gradually to the

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. The average height of the Ob Plateau surface is between and , reaching a maximum height of at an unnamed summit. The plateau is dissected by wide ravines of glacial origin, about in width and between a deep, stretching parallel to each other in a roughly northeast to southwest direction.

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soils predominate in the open steppe spaces of the plateau.

Hydrography

Some of the main rivers of the plateau are the

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Barnaulka The Barnaulka (russian: Барнаулка) is a river in Altai Krai, Russia. The river is long and has a catchment area of . The basin of the river is located in the Rebrikhinsky District, Rebrikhinsky, Shipunovsky District, Shipunovsky and Pav ...

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, Burla, Karasuk,

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among others. Lakes Bolshoye Gorkoye and Maloye Gorkoye have briny waters.

Flora

There are forests made up mostly of

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in the ravines, as well as remnants of coniferous

taiga Taiga (; rus, тайга́, p=tɐjˈɡa; relates to Mongolic and Turkic languages), generally referred to in North America as a boreal forest or snow forest, is a biome characterized by coniferous forests consisting mostly of pines, spruce ...

in higher areas.

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and lakes are common in the river valleys cutting across the plateau.Приобское плато
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Федеральное государственное автономное образовательное учреждение
West Siberian Plain Landforms of Altai Krai Landforms of Novosibirsk Oblast

Geography

Hydrography

Flora

See also

References

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