Karst landforms on the eastern slopes of Davras Dagi (western Taurus): karren, sinkholes and uvalas.

A characteristic of the study area is the low frequency of gully and rill k arren. By length, width and depth they are not comparable with the same typ e of karren in the alpine karst, as they have attained only insignificant d imensions. This difference in size cannot primarily be attributed to differ ences of annual precipitation, but rather to the fact that they are only 2- 3000 years old. Their formation started with anthropogenic forest destructi on and concomitant soil stripping. As gully and rill karren depend on bare rock surfaces for their formation, they cannot have formed before that time . Joint-oriented and cavernous karren, in conrast, are widely spread in the s tudy area. As the formation of these two types of karren is related to the existence of joints, their frequency is explained by severe fracturing of t he limestone during recent tectonic movements. Although cavernous karren ma y also form on bare rock surfaces, Lest conditions for their development ex ist underneath a soil cover. As this no longer exists, the formation of cav ernous karren has become much reduced in the historical era. Sinkholes are frequent in the planation surfaces of Mid- to Upper Miocene age and are of Pliocene and Pleistocene age. The uvalas are also not very old, as many of them contain terra rossa.