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Boynuzcu |
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Cave | |||
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Altitude: |
1800 m | |||
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Depth: |
41.5 m | |||
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Length: |
304 m | |||
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Region: |
Central Anatolia | |||
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Province: |
Konya | |||
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District: |
Seydisehir | |||
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Village: |
Tarasçi | |||
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| Structural Properties and formation : Environs of cave laying in the band of Middle Taurus consists of rocks belongs to Geyikdagi Unit constituting the base of tectonic units of Middle Taurus [Özgül, 1976]. The base of this unit to be positioned as autochthonous and to be surveyed in detail by Monor consists of the aged limestones and dolomite limestones belonging to Cambrian period. Aged shale of Ordovician develops over these rocks called as "Formation of Cal Hill" by Monor. The pieces of schistosity covering a wide range of survey area give a karstic base of an underground water and karstification of region. Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous formations belonging to carbonated platform of Mesozoic comes over these shale. Pieces consisting of aged conglomerate of Lower Triassic, sandstone and schistose stone constitutes the rocks characterizing the Taurus Karst. Above rocks there lies Eocene limestones and Eocene rod on a tectonic contact of Mid-Triassic limestones, Upper Triassic rod, Jurassic limestones, dolomite limestones, autochthonous Geyikdagi Unity and allochthonous Beysehir-Hoyran Nappe. After starting to form in Pleistocene, Boynuzcu Cave formed in an aged limestones in Mid-Triassic so convenient for karstification, pended as fossil cave because of indissoluble Triassic pieces below limestones. Cave has a mouth 700 m above the plain formed in such intersecting fault system that in directions of NS and WE. The entrance of the cave with a 11 m of depth has emerged at a conjunction point of faults and layer directed in NW-SE. Cave branches in that doline-like entrance with the size of 13x8 m. The main entrance of cave elongates along direction of WE. This part of the cave 100 m in length and 8-15 m in width includes with two interrelated halls having a high ceiling varying between 3 and 13 m. While the end part of the main gallery where stalactites, stalagmites, dipstone pool, wall and cover lies is in 4 m of depth, the mid-point is in 24m of depth. The base of the main gallery as firstly formed part of the cave is covered with thick rubble and soil layer. The other gallery elongating along NS was formed later. This gallery is the most deepest part of the cave with 90 m of length. The gallery in 20 m of depth reaches to the depth of 41,5 in mid-point. With a ceiling varying between 4 m and 25 m, Boynuzcu Cave is one of the cave with a high ceiling. The young part has so poor attributes in the sense of dipstone formations. The affects of youthening in the course of the motion of Pleistocene epirogeny common in region has been limited due to the existence and the position of the impervious units. |
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