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Karsi

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Karsi
Type:
Cave
Altitude:
930 m
Depth:
+7.2 m
Length:
96 m
Region:
Black Sea
Province:
Gümüshane
District:
Kelkit
Village:
Gödül

     


It can be reached by a 1 hour walk from the Gödül Village. It is a spring type of fossil cave which was developed horizontally. It was formed over a pronounced fault line within the Malm-Lower Cretaceous limestones. With a characteristic of single-epoch development; the collapse and dripstones are the dominant structures. Bats were seen. It was explored by MTA in 1991.
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