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Location
: Konya, Seydisehir District.
The Tinaztepe Cave System is at the Keçili Village locality
which is at 35 km. southwest of Seydisehir. The cave
is at 5 km west of Mortas Aluminum bed. The Seydisehir-Manavgat
highway passes close to the cave.
Properties : This cave
system has developed inside the Creates limestone and
is formed by three layers one on other.
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The upper layer
having 100 meters length is completely fossilized. The
intermediate layer has 1015 meters of total length and
is semi active. Water flows Inside this layer at precipitant
seasons and it ends with a siphon. The lower layer is
a branch developed on a big fault and is active displaying
sinkhole cave characteristics. In precipitant seasons,
the surface waters of a wide area flows here. These
waters flow inside the Susuz Güvercinlik Cave which
is at southeast and come out from the springs near Sugla
Lake. The explored length of this active cave until
now is 527 meters. But the total length of this cave
had not been completely determined. The deep but narrow
lakes and siphons inside this cave makes the explorations
difficult.
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