Karabil

the hilly uplands in the foothills of the Paropamisus Mountains, between the Murgab and Amu Darya rivers in southern Turkmen SSR.

The Karabil’ reaches an altitude of 980 m. The hills are composed of alluvial and proluvial fine-grained, loesslike Neocene and early Anthropogenic sandstones. The terrain slopes from the south to the north and is covered with ephemeral desert and semidesert and ephemeral subtropical steppe.