Doğubayazıt Reeds () is a

wetland A wetland is a distinct semi-aquatic ecosystem whose groundcovers are flooded or saturated in water, either permanently, for years or decades, or only seasonally. Flooding results in oxygen-poor ( anoxic) processes taking place, especially ...

in northeastern

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. It is located on the western slopes of

Mount Ararat Mount Ararat, also known as Masis or Mount Ağrı, is a snow-capped and dormant compound volcano in Eastern Turkey, easternmost Turkey. It consists of two major volcanic cones: Greater Ararat and Little Ararat. Greater Ararat is the highest p ...

Geology and geomorphology

The wetland lies between

Mount Zor Mount Zor (), is a mountain in northeastern Turkey. It is located in the west of Mount Ararat. Geology and geomorphology Mount Zor forms the eastern extensions of the Aras Mountains Aras Mountains (), is a mountain range in northeastern Turk ...

(3196 m), a branch of the Karasu Aras Mountains, on the north-northwest, Mount Akyayla (2543 m) and Tendürek Mountain on the south, and

on the northeast. The basin is separated from the Doğubayazıt-Gürbulak groove in the southeast by a threshold of volcanic materials. It consists of large and small freshwater springs located in a depression basin, with vegetation consisting of large

reed Reed or Reeds may refer to: Science, technology, biology, and medicine * Reed bird (disambiguation) * Reed pen, writing implement in use since ancient times * Reed (plant), one of several tall, grass-like wetland plants of the order Poales * Re ...

s. Saz Lake near Karabulak is one of its largest waterbodies.

References

Landforms of Ağrı Province {{EAnatolia-geo-stub