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The Taurus Mountains were formed by the collision of the African and Eurasian tectonic plates. The predominant underlying rock is limestone . In the Aladaglar and Bolkar mountains, limestone has eroded to form karstic landscapes of waterfalls , underground rivers , and some of the largest caves of Asia .
The Cilician Gates or Gülek Pass is a pass through the Taurus Mountains connecting the low plains of Cilicia to the Anatolian Plateau, by way of the narrow gorge of the Gökoluk River. Its highest elevation is about 1000m. [2]
Cilo-Sat Mountains are the eastern extension of the Taurus Mountains and are in Hakkari province; Nur Mountains (South Anatolia) Pontic Mountains (in Turkish, Kuzey Anadolu Dağları, meaning North Anatolian Mountains) range along the southern coast of the Black Sea in northern Turkey Kaçkar Mountains form the eastern end of the Pontic Mountains
Physiographic world map with mountain ranges and highland areas in brown, pink, and gray. This is a list of mountain ranges on Earth and a few other astronomical bodies.First, the highest and longest mountain ranges on Earth are listed, followed by more comprehensive alphabetical lists organized by continent.
Mount Davraz (Turkish: Davraz Dağı), also sometimes cited as Mount Davras, is a mountain and a winter sports and ski resort in the Taurus Mountains in Isparta Province in southern Turkey. The nearest cities are the province seat of Isparta and its depending district of Eğirdir , both of which are at a roughly equal distance of 25 km (16 mi ...
Taurus Mountain is a 2,972-meter-elevation (9,751-foot) peak situated 12 kilometers (7.5 miles) southeast of The Bugaboos, in the Purcell Mountains which are a subrange of the Columbia Mountains. [1] Precipitation runoff from Taurus Mountain drains southwest into the headwaters of Howser Creek thence Duncan Lake ; and from the north slope into ...
The craggy massif Mount Cilo is 30 km (19 miles) long and builds the western part of the Hakkari Cilo-Sat Mountains National Park which was established in 2020. [3] The mountains are characterized by an extremely rugged topography with high, pointed summits, sharp and jagged ridges, very steep or even occasionally vertical rock (primarily limestone) cliffs/walls and deep gorges and a few ...
View of the summit of Tahtalı Mountain from Çıralı coast. Tahtalı Dağı lies on the east coast of the Teke Peninsula (Lycian Peninsula), dominating the landscape around Kemer. Located between Antalya and Finike and the dominant peak of the mountain range Bey Dağları (Turkish: Bey Mountains). From it, the start of the Taurus Mountains ...