Abstract
The formation of caves is the special environment of our earth. Caves with dim natural light and lighted hypogean environments, have been found various organism. The Kaklik Cave located tectonic lines and has a very different way of formation when compare with many other same karstic formation caves. The Kaklik Cave is located in the area of Kaklik town in Honaz area and in Denizli province. The cave is one of the 54 cave opened to tourism in Turkey and endanger. In this study the cave climate, hydrol?ogy and biology were studied. The cave has specific species due to this formation, the entrance is wide and open to the sky, that makes the sunlight could go through a very wide area and cause of it is very rich about hydrology, these effects; provide a very high biodiversity to the cave. The cave has very important touristic potential because of the continuously growing travertine, geographical position, availability of access and natural beauties. The wrong artificial lightning badly changes the natural structure of the cave. This artificial lightning causes the biofilm layer and changing on the color of the travertine.
Highlights
As known, Turkey has approximately 40,000 different caves and the geology of most of them has not been studied yet
When compare the numbers of the caves with the studies about them, it’s become obvious the studies are very less for this amount of caves in Turkey
The Kaklik Cave is located in the area of Kaklik town in Honaz area and in Denizli province and the coordinates of the cave as follow; 37 ̊51'20.86"N; 29 ̊23'08.50" E. (Figure 1)
Summary
Turkey has approximately 40,000 different caves and the geology of most of them has not been studied yet. The researchers has been studied, investigated and marked around 2510 caves in Turkey till today [1,2,3,4]. When compare the numbers of the caves with the studies about them, it’s become obvious the studies are very less for this amount of caves in Turkey. In all these studies, the basic ones has been studied and completed by the General Directorate of Mineral Research and Exploration Institute (GDMRE). The 15th of these caves restored by the same institute and open for public use and touristic actions and there are 80 scientific papers have been published about these caves. The geomorphological and biological features of these caves are studied in those papers [2,3,5,6,7,8,9]
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