Relief-Forming Role of the Ice Factor in the Coastal Area of the North-West Part of the Black Sea

Abstract

In the North-West part of the Black Sea, the impact of the ice factor is characterized by rhythmic observation during severe, moderate and warm winter. Generally, it hasn’t significant impact. In somelocal points during cold winter may results in a significant alteration of the relief and deposits, and causes damage to hydraulic structures.

Ice gets saturated with deposits mostly when submerging to the bottom during ebbing, when contacting the beach, being carried directly onto its surface and along cracks, and during aeolian movement.

For artificial beaches of Odesa coast protection complex, the average content of deposits in ice is defined by peculiarities of formation of shore-fast ice and by hydrodynamics of the water area of these coast sections.

The shapes of relief, formed under impact from the ice factor, are minor; they exist for the duration of its impact, and disappear after the storm ends.