Lecture Notes 2: Regarding Doline Formation in Increasing Numbers in Recent Years Around Konya Plains
Akademik / 1 Mart 2018

Particularly in local newspapers and frequently in the national press it is being announced in recent years that new landslides are being experienced around Konya Plains. It is being reported that after most of the said incidents, geographical formations are established named as “doline” having a circular shape and in the center of which it takes place a lake. The issue of dolines is a subject being followed-up closely by the Turkish geographical community since a long time and about which almost everybody has some knowledge more or less. The term doline 2 is being used conceptually in a misnaming way in Turkey as the common name of all the karstic collapse formations. In fact, the name was derived from the pure Turkish verb of “opmak”, meaning of which covers all the geographical formations established as result of a collapse. However, in our day, karstic collapse structures consist of many different types, thus, named under various titles in the international community. By its meaning used in Turkey doline, can be defined as, “circular shapes formed when it collapses some time later and it is eliminated the vacancy established when the underground waters present in lands where decomposable rockmasses take place…