Lake Tuz Natural Gas Storage Lake Tuz Natural Gas Storage Lake Tuz Natural Gas Storage () is an underground natural gas storage facility under construction in Aksaray Province, central Turkey. It was developed artificially in a salt formation. The storage facility is situated near Sultanhanı town in Aksaray Province south of LakeTuz at a depth of . It was established by creating salt caverns. The twelve man-made salt caverns with a total volume of can hold natural gas. Daily delivery from the storage can be up to when needed. The geological structure of the area is suitable for large underground natural gas storage facilities. The
Wildlife of Turkey winters. Salt steppes and lakes are found here, as well salt-free grassland areas, marshes and freshwater systems. Immediately around the large Lake Tuz and other saline areas, saltmarsh plants grow, and beyond this is a sharp divide, with the flora being dominated by members of the families Chenopodiaceae and Plumbaginaceae. The mountainous eastern half of the country is separated floristically from the rest of the country by the Anatolian diagonal, a floral break that crosses the country from the eastern end of the Black Sea to the northeastern corner of the Mediterranean Sea. Many species found to the east of