Dilek Peninsula-Büyük Menderes Delta National Park Aegean Region in general. The peninsula was shaped into its current form over several geological eras with the tectonic merging of Paleozoic schist formations, Mesozoic limestone and marble deposits, and finally the accretion of large clays and other sediments during the Neogene period. This is partly because of Turkey's unstable fault block terrain, and because of the close proximity of the Anatolian-Aegean plate boundary, which generates massifs of mountains all across western Turkey. This includes the peninsula and the mountains surrounding the Büyük Menderes River, known collectively as the Menderes Massif. The peninsula is highly mountainous, with most of its
Machynys Peninsula Golf Country Club Machynys Peninsula Golf Country Club Machynys Peninsula Golf Country Club (Welsh: "Clwb Golff Pentir Machynys") is a golf club based in Machynys, just outside Llanelli in Carmarthenshire, Wales. This Course is a links championship golf course open to Members and Visitors. The course was opened in 2005, designed by Gary Nicklaus and is 7121 yards. Their website claim that "Machynys is the youngest course ever to be awarded an R&A championship". At a cost of £3.5m the course layout included 25 acres of new lakes. In 2012 the club hosted the Seniors Open Amateur Championship, having previously hosted the "Boys