The role of climate and tectonic in the formation of Kızılırmak river terraces,Avanos

This study aims in order to determine influence climate and tectonics on the formation of the Kızılırmak terraces that confined between Sarıhıdır and Çiftedam (Avanos). For that, the Kızılırmak terraces are assessed in accordance with the regional and metric distributions and their sedimentological stratigraphical characters. In addition to this the region age correlation of the terraces have been done using other study results. Finally in this area six terrace levels are determined as +94 m, +67 m, +60 m, +51 m, +29 m ve +12 m terraces. These terrace deposits indicate a lower braided-lower meandering river. According to possible age intervals, other than S1, whole terraces maybe belong to Middle and Late Pleistocene.