Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Cave and Karst Science, cilt.30, sa.3, ss.117-124, 2003 (Scopus)
Sariot Polje, in the north of the Taurus Mountain range in Turkey, was investigated to determine its formational history. The polje group to which it belongs was established on the basis of its geomorphological and hydrological features. This polje lies in a region that is highly complex structurally and tectonically, within the Taurus Karst Belt. The Sorgun Stream flows towards the northeast along the contact between karstic and non-karstic formations in a valley that formed in the Late Miocene and was affected by tectonic movements during the Late Miocene - Early Pliocene, becoming a blind valley drained by various swallow holes. During the Early Pliocene the blind valley was converted into a polje by lateral karstic corrosion of the Jurassic - Cretaceous limestones. If examined from a geomorphological and hydrological point of view, Sariot Polje, which initially formed at the contact of Eocene karstic and non-karstic rocks, is seen to be a border polje. © British Cave Research Association, 2003.