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Körkuyu 1

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Körkuyu 1
Type:
Vertical Cave
Altitude:
1740 m
Depth:
-130 m
Length:
80 m
Region:
Central Anatolia
Province:
Kayseri
District:
Yahyali
Village:
Ceviz

     


Location: The Ceviz Plateau has been surrounded by hills to the northwest and southeast; elongating in the southwest-northeast direction and it has an altitude of 1740 m.
Structural Properties and formation : It has short descents up to -44 m; and continues with an inclined gallery; followed by two descents; one 17 m and the other 40 m. The gallery which continued horizontally at the bottom gets narrower and hard to pass through.
Research History: First found by MAD in 1993; it was explored in May 1994; and mapped to the BCRA 3c standard.
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