GTurkiye

Category: Spelunking

  • The Purposes for Usage of the Caves in Turkey

    The formation and development properties and the climatic condition of a cave determines the purpose of usage of that particular cave. The common usage fields of the caves are as follows:

    – Tourism
    – Natural deep freeze deputing
    – Preservation and maturation of animal based products (Water pipe cheese, butter, etc. )
    – Cultural mushroom growth
    – Respiratory system diseases
    – Storage of liquidified gas, natural gas and fuel oil
    – Shelter and refuge for military purposes
    – Guano production
    – Placer mineral inference
    – Determination of underground water basins and taking these water to surface
    – Determination of the pollution focuses of spring waters and preservation methods
    – Determination of regional geological, geomorphologic, hydrological, hydro geological, anthropological and paleo ecological properties.