Ramsar Sites of Turkey - Ramsar Convention on Wetlands

sulfate, chloride, sodium and magnesium ions. Some manufactories continue discharging
their wastes into the lake, although they have waste treatment facilities. Inorganic
the lake are loaded into Lake Burdur via Adalar stream and decrease the pH level <strong>of</strong> the
water, where the stream empties into the lake. The manufactory, however, was closed in
1994. Other polluters are the irrigation waters drained from agriculture lands and wastes
<strong>of</strong> Burdur province. While Lake Burdur has not shown much <strong>of</strong> a difference concerning
the general water quality parameters in the past 20 years, heavy metal concentrations
increase in line with the decrease in water level. However, the concentrations are
expected to increase more depending on the decrease <strong>of</strong> the water volume in the lake;;
the amount is thought to remain limited due to ground water inflows and meteorological
factors.
During the 27-year <strong>of</strong> measurements in Lake Burdur reveal that the lake surface
decreased by almost 10 meters and lake volume by 27 percent.
GEOLOGICAL ASPECTS
There are geological formations dating back to II. III. and IV. periods in Lake Burdur
Basin. The bedrock is generally <strong>of</strong> calcareous structure.
Situated between Taurus kink system and Saruhan-
Basin geologically elongates in the direction <strong>of</strong> Northwest-Southwest. Lake Burdur
situated within this basin elongates in the same direction. Vast plains <strong>of</strong> 860-1000 m lie
in the south. Heights surrounding the basin were fragmentized by fluvial and
-1700 m are located in the west
2000 m, that mount next to the Neocene formations, with erosion surfaces over, with an
altitude <strong>of</strong> 1250-
,
mountainous areas with an altitude <strong>of</strong> 1500 m surround its north. The northeastern part
an altitude <strong>of</strong> 965 m.
Post-Alpine tectonic movements and climate changes that occurred during quaternary
lead to fragmentations, which had played a remarkable role for the basin to take its
current nature. Paleocene (Eocene-Oligocene) formations occurred in Burdur Basin that
had a synclinal character at the beginning <strong>of</strong> tertiary. These and older formations had
become dislocated and deformed during Alpine orogenesis. In early Miocene the area
where Burdur Basin is located had got depressed. The sediments carried from the
elevations was loaded in this basin and sedimentary layers, named as Burdur lake
deformation consisted <strong>of</strong> clayey, marly limestone occurred. Volcanic material emanating
in the immediate environment during this era also diffused through the basin in patches.
BIOLOGICAL ASPECTS
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