Red Mediterranean soils in some karstic regions of taurus mountains, Turkey

Paleosols, red sediments, and the Old Stone Age in Greece

“…Red Quaternary river terrace deposits and paleosols have been described also for Italy (Brunnacker, 1974(Brunnacker, , 1979, Spain (Torrent, 1976;Brosche, 1977;Bech et al, 1997;García Marcos and Santos Frances, 1997), southern France (Brosche, 1977), Greece (KoutsouveliNomikou, 1980), Turkey (Atalay, 1997), and Cyprus (Gomez, 1987).…”

“…They are usually regarded as remnants of a late Miocene or Pliocene weathering blanket and labeled with the old term "terra rossa," which means a residue of limestone weathering in a subtropical climate (Kubien a, 1953). I shall use the term in this sense (Foucault and Raoult, 1980), but many other interpretations exist (Atalay, 1997;Bronger and Bruhn-Lobin, 1997). Thorough studies of "classic" terra rossa have been rare, however, because it tends to be intractable in terms of genesis, stratigraphy and geochronology (Schneider, 1977;MacLeod, 1980;Yaalon, 1997).…”

The status and distribution of freshwater biodiversity in the Eastern Mediterranean

“…The middle and western parts of the range, for example Teke Peninsula, Lakes Region, and Taseli Plateau, contain significant areas of complex karstic systems (Atalay 1997). However the fauna of Turkish karst systems is poorly known.…”

Natural and anthropogenic hazards in karst areas of Albania

“…Using karst landforms (mostly dolines) to extract materials, on one hand, and to waste disposals, on the other, is a quite frequent practice (Atalay, 1997;. Dolines filled with terre rosse and bauxites are often object of excavations, and the resulting deep depressions are successively filled with solid wastes of various types, as in the case of the Polis e Dajt Mountains, and in the region of Mali i Gjere, near Gjirokaster, or at the villages of Progonat and Golem in the Kurvelesh Mountains.…”