Abstract:

The research area located in the southwestern Anadolu and the northwestern edge of the Teke area is within the administrative border of the Tavas district of Denizli province. Today’s morphology in the field has evolved over and within the carbonate tectonic units of the Likya napes. 44% of these carbonate units are full-carstic (holokarst), 3% transitional carst and 15% partial carstic (merokarst). In the work area located in a tektonically complex area, it is primarily influenced by fluvial and carstling processes. The most common shapes occurring by fluvial processes are swelling surfaces, paleo valleys, separation surfaces, unification throats and small canyons. The most notable of the forms formed by cartification are polyes, young and small uvals, soluble valleys, inner valleys, extended valleys, fluvio-cartic valleys and depressions, lapia and dude. These carstic forms are most intense on the surface of Miyosen (174), and less on the surface of Pliyosen and Alt Pleistosen (27). The intensity of this dull reaches the highest numbers above the old plato pieces, especially on the high mass of Bozdağ-Kırdağı. A total of 164 of the 200 squares identified in the field were formed in this mountain and platoluk mass. The formations of dulls here continue rapidly depending on the depth of the morphological and karst base level. The other elements that control the topography of the dull in the field are also litological and structural conditions. The presence of highly soluble carbonate shapes and the inconsistencies of the fields through intense tectonic activities have identified the possibility for these shapes to develop in different sizes and intensely. The greatest carstical shapes of the field are the polyels and uvals, which have developed under the control of the tectonic unity limits, the position and extent of the fates that make up the Likya spots. Thus, the main factors that control the polies and uvals have been: the benefits, the boundaries, the boundaries that exist with non-carstical litologies and, of course, the course of the processes of carstalization. Moreover, the majority of the uvals have evolved in the basins of the Paleo Valley. These are also young uvals that are still in the early stages of their development. All these macro-carstic forms in the field also characterize multiple periodicity as a work of the tectonic regimes experienced.