Sultan Mountains

Sultan Mountains

The Sultan Mountains ( _tr. Sultandağ, also called Sultan Dagh range, Sultan Dag) is a short mountain range on the western edge of the Anatolian Plateau, Turkey, maximal elevation of 6,500 ft.

The town of Sultandağı is their namesake.

They are made up of metamorphic rocks of Lower Cambrian-Carboniferous era. [http://www.dsi.gov.tr/english/congress2007/chapter_1/24.pdf IMPORTANCE OF GEOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS AT DETERMINING BASIN CONSERVATION BORDERS: SAMPLE OF LAKE BEYŞEHİR (KONYA) BASIN] ]

West slopes of Sultan Mountains are part of the Lake Beyşehir drainage basin.

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