Sultandağları ile Akşehir ve Eber gölleri havzalarının strüktüral, jeomorfolojik ve toprak erozyonu etüdü

Abstract

STRUCTURAL GEOMORPHOLOGICAL AND SOIL EROSION INVESTI- GA TIONS OF SULTAN MO UNTAINS, AKŞEHİR AND EBER LAKE BASINS SUMMARY Study area is situated in SW part of Central Anatolia Basins. Sultan Moun tains are an orographic branch of Taurus Mountains extending toward Central Anatolia in the NW-SE direction. There are numerous summits on this chain over 2000 m high, among them Gelincikana Mount reaches 2610 m. above sea le vel. Mean elevation of the mountains is about 1800-1900 meters. Tectonic origin of Akşehir, Eber and Karamuk Lake basins extend between Sultan and Emir mountains. GEOLOGY Sultan Mountains are one of the Paleozoic massives of Turkey, formed by epimetamorphic schistes such as phyllite, cholorite-sericite-schist, sericite- schist, sandstone, quartzite, quartzite schist and bematite-albitesencite7 chloride schist which contain quartzite and crystalized limestone lenses. Ordovicien and Silurian formations are found, in the schist with Graptolite, Tribollte and Distinct fossils, which are located in between Koçbeyli-Karamuk villages, in west of Mountains by I. Yalçınlar. Carboniferous: The existence of Carboniferous formations in Sultan Mo untains is for the first time discovered by I. Yalçınlar. The discoverer has encoun tered Asterophyllites equisetiformis fossils and continental Carboniferous forma tions in the blackish schistes at 2 km away from the south of Akşehir. Devonian formations occur in SW part of Tekke valley. In this area Dis- phyllum foldfussi GENINITZ fossils were found by Ş. Abdüsselamoğlu. Permian: Fusulinidae fossils relevant to permian are found among the limes tone layers, 1 km south of Çay Township by Chaput. Our Studies at the Kap- lahyarığı location, 5 km SE of Çay township, revelaed the existence of Upper and Lower Permian layers and Staffella sp., Eoverbeekina sp., Globivalvulina sp. fossils. Permian limestones lie concordantly on the ephimetamorphic series in N and NE ridges of the Mountains and its thickness changes from the fewer up to 1000 meters. 235