Barsuki Desert
It has two parts, the Greater Barsuki (Kazakh: Үлкен Борсық; Russian: Большие Барсуки) in the west and the Lesser Barsuki (Kazakh: Кіші Борсық; Russian: Малые Барсуки) in the east.They are elongated strips of sand desert parallel to each other and separated by a roughly 65 kilometers (40 mi) wide stretch of non-desert terrain.[1] The sands of the deserts are the result of the weathering of Paleogene rocks; only the northern section of the Greater Barsuki was formed from more recent alluvial deposits.[1][2] The vegetation of the flat areas consists mainly of xerophytic shrubs, including wormwood, saltwort and ephemeral plants.In the slopes of hills and ridges there are thickets of dzhuzgun, sand acacia, astragalus, kandym and chingil.