Harput (Elazığ) Buzluk Mağarası`nın Özellikleri, Jeolojisi Ve Oluşumu

Buzluk Cave of Harput is astonishing because ice presence during whole summer in it. The cave is situated among Maastrichtian limestone blocks. Densely fractured limestones were parted to blocks along fracture planes and blocks were subjected gravity movements. The space among the blocks forms Buzluk Cave. Dissolution did not efect to the formation. The total depth of the cave 30 m. and the temperature changes are in reverse order with depth increase. The ice of Buzluk Cave is the remmant of snow and ice of winter season. Melting of this ice body is prevented by the slow evaporation of the moisture on the surfaces of the blocks.