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-13 m | |||
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138 m | |||
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Marmara | |||
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Province: |
Kirklareli | |||
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District: |
Demirköy | |||
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Village: |
Avcilar | |||
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| Tirfez Cave is near the Bulgarian border to the north of Avcılar Village in Igneada. The two entrances to the cave are extremely difficult to find inside the limestone formations in the forest. Tirfez is a small horizontal cave having a total length of 138 m. It is formed from Mesozoic marble remaining inside the north-western edge of the Paleozoic granites and metamorphic rocks of Strandja Massif. The ceiling is usually not more than 2 m high and the cave ends with a very narrow passage that is covered with mud and guano. Archaeological findings were documented in the cave. A total of 10 faunal species were found in the cave, five of which are bats. There is a small nursery colony of some 50 Miniopterus schreibersii individuals during the summer period. Furthermore, Rhinolophus ferrumequinum, Rhinolophus hipposideros and Myotis capaccinii were found to be using this cave as a hibernation roost. The newly described pseudo-scorpion species, Neobisium (O.) hazalae sp. n., was found in the guano sampled from this cave. |
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