Pipe Creek Sinkhole have also been found there. Pipe Creek Sinkhole preserves an ancient wetland. It was created by the collapse of a limestone cave in a Silurian reef formation. That left a steep-sided depression about long, wide and deep. When water collected in the depression, it became the habitat of the plants and animals whose remains were preserved there when the sinkhole was buried by glacial outwash and till during the Pleistocene Epoch, two million to 11,000 years ago. While the ecology of the Pliocene in North America is well-known from fossil discoveries in other places, notably coastal sites, the Pleistocene glaciers
Akhayat sinkhole site presently there is no touristic activity. But Silifke governor said that the site will be opened to tourism. Akhayat sinkhole Akhayat (also known as Aşağı Dünya Obruğu) is a sinkhole in Mersin Province, Turkey. The Akhayat Sinkhole is located in a rural area of the Silifke district, to the north of Atayurt town. Its visitors (if there are any) are often from Mersin, and to get to the sinkhole site they follow the Turkish state highway . As for tourism nowadays, it isn't a particularly popular sight, as there is hardly any touristic activity apart from people driving past