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Cave | |||
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Altitude: |
1100 m | |||
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Depth: |
-22 m | |||
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Length: |
165 m | |||
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Region: |
Mediterranean | |||
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Province: |
Adana | |||
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District: |
Saimbeyli | |||
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Village: |
Himmetli | |||
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| Structural Properties and formation : Cave is formed in fault directing on NS in aged limestones belonging to the periods of Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous. The mouth laying above the karstic base (Goksu River in 600 m) has a width of 10 m and a height of 2,5 m. There are column formations formed by the affect of dripping/flowing; and there are flowstone wall of travertines after 10 m of length where treasure hunters have often digged. 40 m of length from this point comprises blocks in different sizes, columns and wall of dipstones. The proper intensity of flowstone and dipstone formation starting after these parts of 50 m in length is named as main hall, laying 2 m above the mouth. This first hall with 10 m of height involves columns, wall of flowstones, stalactites and stalagmites in it. After 30 degrees of ascending base covered with flowstone formations, the hall covered with cave deposits gives way to the last and the highest part of the cave elongating to the direction of NW-SE in reverse of the general direction of cave to NE. This part lies in 3 m above the mouth and has a height of 8m and a width of 4 m. The last part of the cave ends with the deposits of travertines closing any passage. There is also a chimney-passage to be formed in such two levels at 3 m and 10 m of depths descending towards the lowest gallery under the last part of the main branch written above. The lowest gallery laying 22 m below the mouth lies in the direction of NS. The base width and the height of the deepest gallery somewhere exceeding 10 m of distance has a wall of dipstones, stalactites, stalagmites and columns not much more the main hall. Development Processes of Cave: It was suggested, in terms of the morphology of surface, that cave is formed in a fault directing in NS since the end of Pliocene period, to be also effective in the old polje formation of Meydancik Plateau Mevkii cut by NW and SE valleys. Sea level changing with reference to the ice activities of quaternary period (Pleistocene) have had a deep impact on drainage systems in land. In the crisis of upper Miocene fully desiccated Akdeniz, there has appeared a rapid clavanue of valley deeply effecting the development of cave, and disrupting karstic systems depending on the youth clavanue. The stream systems, thus, deepening their bed has caused old stream systems to be hung on. Cave, in early periods formed as a part of karstic systems and in later periods related to the change of level of underground water swinging in Z-formed, have rapidly become vadose and fossil due to new valley formations. Cave formations have simultaneously started to develop in this period. Thus, it was suggested that cave has developed between the end of Pliocene and the beginning of Pleistocene. |
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