Özet:

Geyik Mountain is a high karstic plateau and the majority of plateau is composed of the Jurassic-Cretaceous and Permian carbonate rocks. The fact that well-developed glacial and karstic formations on the mountain, which is largely affected by the Pleistocene glaciations, are intertwined, providing favorable conditions for the development of glacial-karst polygenic (glaciokarstic) landscape. In this study, it is aimed to reveal the polygenic geomorphology on the mountain according to the relationship between glacial and karst landforms. The most important surface karstic landforms on the mass are karstic depressions (doline and uvalas) and the most important glacial forms are circuses and moraine deposits. According to the mapping study, carried out on 21 topographic maps with a scale of 1/25.000, a total of 25.599 dolines were detected on the mountain between 550-2800 meters. In the mountain where the maximum karstic depression density reaches 145 depression/km2, 80% of the depressions are found between 1600-2400 meters. Almost all of the circuses in the study area developed on the north, northeast and northwest slopes where the elevation is 2000 meters and above. Some of the karstic depressions in the high areas provide suitable environments for the settlement of the glaciers, while some of the depressions are covered by the moraines. Especially in the central and southern parts of the mountain, the karstic areas between 1750 and 2300 meters are covered with moraine deposits. This caused the solution dolines formed before the glacial to be covered with moraines. However, karstification in doline covered with moraine continued under the moraine cover and subsidence and cover collapse dolines developed. The second effect of glacial sediments in the research area is observed in the Çimi Polje in the southern part of the area. The coarse glacier sands filling the polje were carried by the wind and filled the dolines

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