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There is no stream in Karaca, water percolating through fissures in the roof of the cave being responsible for the formation of the dripstones. Such water as persists within the cave is in the form of various ponds and pools. The ponds at the entrance of the third and fourth caverns contain a
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The cave system is disposed more or less in a level plane and consists of four interconnected caverns. Two of these caverns are further subdivided by 'walls' composed of dripstone, and it could thus be argued that Karaca comprises not four but six chambers.
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Karaca Cave is surrounded by the borders of the village Cebeli in Torul. It is 17 km (11 mi) far away from the city center at an elevation of 1,550 m (5,090 ft) high above sea level. The cave attracts the most tourists in
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increases from around 65% at the entrance to up to 75% in the cave's interior. The air inside the cave is cooler than that outside it in summertime and warmer in winter. Because of this, it is considered to have a
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The height of the cave entrance is about 1.8 m (5.9 ft) - the height of an average man - but, as one moves deeper into the interior increases steadily, the cave opening out into a
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and certain other types of sedimentary rock. The Karaca Cave formed in one of these layers of highly fissured, massive limestone sandwiched between volcanics.
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Some of the dripstone pools are very large - particularly those in the inner parts of the cave, which range up to 1 m (3.3 ft) in depth.
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Although the cave was known to the people living in that region, it became open to tourism as a result of the scientific research conducted by
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570:Tınaztepe Cave System
90:40.54417°N 39.40278°E
814:Show caves in Turkey
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409:Karaca Cave, Aydın
144:Gümüşhane Province
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719:Kocain Cave
714:Karain Cave
709:Kanlıdivane
704:İnsuyu Cave
626:Yenesu Cave
588:Buzluk Cave
492:İnaltı Cave
487:İnağzı Cave
482:Ilıksu Cave
467:Gökgöl Cave
404:İnkaya Cave
379:, by region
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69:Coordinates
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808:Categories
616:Oylat Cave
462:Erçek Cave
299:References
285:atmosphere
245:cave roses
151:Sukru Eroz
146:, Turkey.
81:39°24′10″E
78:40°32′39″N
424:Black Sea
259:magnesium
226:limestone
207:andesitic
180:Gumushane
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447:Çal Cave
335:Pictures
314:Archived
281:humidity
211:basaltic
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58:Location
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386:Aegean
270:funnel
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