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Kabanbasi



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Type:
Horizontal Cave
Altitude:
1540 m
Diameter:
m- Direction:

Region:
Black Sea
Province:
Gümüshane
District:
Merkez
Village:
Kabanbasi


TAYEx:
-

Registration State:
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Location: It can be reached from Gümüshane by car passing through the quarters of Yuvanet-Sismanli-Arsa-Kabanbasi or by a 1 hour walking through the pathway leading to the Kabanbasi Quarter from the Eskibaglar Quarter.
Geography and Environment: It is a spring type of fossil cave; which was developed horizontally. It was formed within the highly fractured and jointed Malm Lower Cretaceous limestones. The walls of the cave; which becomes narrower onward; are partly adorned with dripstone decorations. The floor is covered sometimes by rocky blocks and sometimes by earth and guano. It is dry in all seasons
Destruction Details:


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