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+20 m | |||
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Length: |
30 m | |||
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Region: |
Marmara | |||
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Province: |
Istanbul | |||
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District: |
Sile | |||
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Village: |
Merkez | |||
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| It lies to the south of the Sile Cape. The cave is accessible by walking northward to Sile Cape then a descending the stairs. The cave is known since the first ages. The cave is firstly mapped by Ertek and his team. It was formed within the Sile olistrostrome consisting of marl-sandstone-clay shales. On the walls; Upper Cretaceous limestone blocks comprising the Sile olistolithes to be observed in cave [Baykal-Önalan 1979]. Due to its loose material, cave has been abrased and its base has been covered with blocks seperated from marl-sandstone-clay shales by the destructive waves of sea. At present; the cave has no connection with the sea as to be suggested the evidence of young tectonic environs forcing the land to rise; and so it is a dry sea cave. Cave have seagulls and spiders in it. Cave is important to be a natural laboratory in term of geology of Sile and its environs [Yalçınlar, 1965; Baykal-Önalan, 1979]. |
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