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SPELUNKING IN TURKEY
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The meaning of spelunking is the recreational sport of exploring
caves. It is an activity small groups or the entire family can
enjoy. Turkey just so happens to be well known for its wondrous and
majestic underground spelunk-able paradises.
With vast underground lakes, churches and cisterns, stalactites and
stalagmites, these caves are an entirely different world just
waiting for you and your family to explore! Some caves and caverns
carry dangers of spelunking, which require special training and
equipment to explore. Rest assured, the caves that are for
professionals are clearly marked and the others will have you
exploring with tour guides that are specially trained for spelunking
for beginners.
Carbonate rocks underlie approximately one third of Turkey. The
intense karstification (from the root word karst, which is irregular
limestone in which erosion has produced underground streams and
caverns) is spread almost all over Turkey (but particularly found in
the regions of the Taurus Mountain Range, in Northwest Anatolia, in
Southeastern Anatolia, and in Konya closed basin) - both high and
low altitude areas. There are approximately 40,000 known caves and
caverns with some of the largest and extensive in the world.
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The Taurus region is the largest karst region in Turkey, starting
close to the Aegean coast, going through the northeast of the
Mediterranean sea to the western border of Iran and over eastern
Anatolia. The width of these carbonate units can stretch over 120
miles long with peaks of the limestone ridges as high as 9800 feet.
Central Anatolian region, located in the north of Taurus belt, is a
closed basin bounded together with towering mountains over 3900 feet
in elevation. Recrystallized hard limestone, which bounded the basin
on the south and west, are the extension of Taurus.
The northwest Anatolia and Thrace limestone blocks covers limited
areas when compared with other regions with Eocene limestone.
As one, a group, or an entire family, come and get lost in the world
of spelunking here in the ideal country of Turkey.
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