A.K.KAYUMOV, D.KAMOLOVA, A.SHOMAHMADOV, KH.KABUTOV
RESEARCH OF GLACIERS IN THE SURKHOB RIVER BASIN IN THE UPPER COURCE OF THE NAUKRUM RIVER
“State Scientific Institution “Center for the Study of Glaciers of the National Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan”
The purpose of this work is to assess the state of glaciers in the upper reaches of the Naukrum river in the Sorbog river basin. The novelty of the work consist in the fact that the latest information about the glaciers of the region under study is given in the USSR Glacier Catalog of 1971.
As a result of data analysis, it was revealed that the total areas of glaciers in the study region, for the periods 1994-2011 and 1994-2018, decreased by 3.0% (0.72 km2) and 9.8% (2.11 km2), respectively. The areas of cirque and cirque-valley glaciers received the greatest reduction (from 7.07 to 23.7%) and greatest reduction was received by glaciers with northwestern (4.86-13.1%) and northeastern (4.12-14.09%) orientation.
Key words: glaciers, glacier degradation, glaciation, correlation, glacier exposure, morphological types of glaciers.