Jeoloji Münendisliği Dergisi

Karst and karstification features of the surrounding area ofBoğsak karsı spring (Mersin-Taşucu)

ABSTRACT: The study area located in the Taurides Karst Belt and composed of almost all carbonate rocks. Limestones and dolomites identify as soluble rock units, whereas the sandstone-quartzite and claystone- siltstone identify unsoluble rock units. All these rocks contain various closed drainage areas in densely karstificated regions with numerically identified, linear and areal properties. The different pétrographie properties and chemical compositions of the dolomites, and the microsparitic- micritic-sparitic limestones, as found in the relative solubility experiments, which suggest that gives diagenesis took place in the different steps and relatively soluble scale. The primary porosities aqd permeabilities of these rocks do not practically exist. Under the light of al collected data, the effect of karstification parameteres on. the properties of types and dimensions of the karst landforms in the limestones and dolomites have been investigated in the study area, .and also, a karstification model is suggested, the explanation of development of the karstification in regional scale.