Natural Walls of Anatolia: formation and development of Diş Kayalıkları as a structural landform (Sivas, Türkiye)  

作　　者：UZUN Ali AYLAR Faruk ZEYBEK Halil Ibrahim GÜRGÖZE Serkan BAHADIR Muhammet ALEMDAĞ Selçuk 

机构地区：[1]Geography Department,Ondokuz Mayis University,Samsun 55100,Turkey [2]Geological Engineering Department,Gümüşhane University,Gümüşhane 29100,Turkey

出　　处：《Journal of Mountain Science》2023年第7期1807-1823,共17页山地科学学报（英文）

基　　金：supported by the Scientific Research Projects Coordination Unit of Ondokuz May?s University with the project number PYO.FEN.1902.21.001。

摘　　要：The Diş Kayalıkları is one of the largest and most striking examples of crests in the world and is located between Eskidere and Boğazören villages of the İmranlı district of the Sivas province in Turkey. The crests, which resemble castle walls when viewed from afar, have a real wall pattern due to the right-angled crack system of the bedrock when viewed closely. This study aims at investigating the geomorphological features of the Diş Kayalıkları and determining how the geological and geomorphological evolution of the Diş Kayalıkları took place and how the current formation mechanism continues. In the region, the mid-latitude continental climate prevails with cold humid winters and warm dry summers. The bedrock consists of Miocene bedded deposits of different resistance, folded by young tectonic movements. Diş Kayalıkları was formed by selective erosion of less resistant terrain around a pack of resistant rock on the steeper southern slope of an asymmetrical anticline. It has a length of 4750 m in the approximately northwest-southeast direction, a maximum height of 30 m, and a width varying between 5 and 8 m. In the present morphological appearance of the Diş Kayalıkları, it can be stated that the structure formed after the tectonic formation process was eroded under the control of the local climate and crest formation was realized. In the following process, the crest experienced a polycyclic process where different landforms were formed. There are smaller landforms such as karren, cave and rock window on Diş Kayalıkları, and macrofossil beds in some places. This highly attractive geomorphosite, unknown to wider public, should be investigated from various scientific aspects and should be brought to regional tourism by making the necessary infrastructure and promotion studies.

关 键 词：Structural landform CREST Geosite DişKayalıkları Sivas 

分 类 号：P931[天文地球—自然地理学]