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International Geographical Union (IGU), Commisiion on the Mediterrranean Basin (COMB), 2016 Annual IGU Conference, Antalya, Turkey, vol.1, no.1, pp.40, (Summary Text)
Beachrocks are formed in tropical and subtropical regions coasts, and partly more limited in the temperate regions coasts. These are a loose materials (bottle fragments, pottery shards and pieces of bricks, amphorae, jugs, bricks and roof tiles, crown cap and etc.) to be connected with a lime cement, as a result of the beach formations are occurring in sandstones and conglomerates characters. They incline 6-8° towards to the sea (and lakes). They show stratification. Main materials are sand and gravel which can be 5-30 cm. They needed 20°C sea water (or lake water).
The beachrocks are found in Turkey’s Mediterranean, Aegean, Marmara and Black Sea coasts. For this reason, beachrocks has extented some cut off from the Şile and Kıyıköy coasts to the İskenderun Bay. Especially, they have wide distribution in Antalya-Alanya-Gazipaşa coasts. The coastal beaches materials; (1) with the cementing of carbonate in seawater, (2) with the cementing of carbonate in the groundwater, and (3) that both processes together with cementing, (4) are formed in another process.
Naturally occurring environment of beachrocks may be different. They occur in ocean coasts which tides came roughly tidal zone; secondly find in Mediterranean coasts the ebb-like insignificant (30-40 cm) mean sea level on the coast that occur or slightly higher can cut also access the waves for both cases. This zone is the part of the coast is covered with sea water from time to time, so are the offshore zones and backshore zones of coastal areas increased. The width of this zone from one hand to the coastal profile, on the other hand is due to play at sea level change can occur and vary from coast to another coast.
In this study, relationship between changes attempted to present a comparative basis in Hasır Island beachrocks in the south of Marmara Sea, Şile-Doğancılı beachrocks in the Black Sea, Gökçeada beachrocks in the Aegean Sea, Side and Alanya beachrocks in the Mediterranean Sea. The first one was found entirely below the sea level; the latter three are located on the sea level and above. Instead of playing them in the general sea level change, the role of local tectonics and said that the land would have collapsed. When you looked up the Turkish beachrocks, we couldn’t say sea level changes yet, and in particular also the increased sea level.
Key words: Coasts of Turkey, Turkish coasts beachrocks, sea level changes, Mediterranean Sea