Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Cave and Karst Science, cilt.30, sa.1, ss.9-14, 2003 (Scopus)
Çamlik Caves are an active and semi active cave system located in the Western Taurus in Çamlik town, south of Beyşhir Lake. The caves were enlarged when a palaeo river (a palaeo tributary of the Manavgat River), flowing on a Pliocene denudational surface in Late Pliocene to Early Pleistocene times met a northwest-southeast fault line, incised deeply and integrated into a pre-existing underground water system. During the Early Pleistocene the system, which now comprises Körükini and Suluin caves, was a single unit. A collapse doline formed where the Pliocene palaeo valley intersected an existing conduit, resulting in ceiling collapse, and the original cave was divided into the two parts. The system was unable to extend deeper because the limestones were not very thick and the base comprised insoluble formations. Because a sinking river developed the cave system it displays single conduit cave features and a sinuous passage. The cross-section of the cave is of elliptical, canyon type, reflecting the guidance of the fault line and the effects of hydraulic control.