Göllüdağ Volkanik Kompleksi İçerisinde Kültürel ve Jeolojik Miras Öğeleri

Erturaç, M. Korhan; Okur, Hilal; Ersoy, Batuhan

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“…The paleo-fair y chimney and paleo-pediment geomorphosite carries significant potential as a geoheritage property in northern Cappadocia. The region has a great number of potential geoheritage sites and some geopark areas (e.g., Erturaç et al 2017). However, Turkey has only one international geopark, that of Kula Volcanic Geopark, which was included in the UNESCO Geopark Network in 2013 and is situated in Manisa province in Western Anatolia (Gümüs and Zouros 2014).…”

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“…Furthermore, Cappadocia has important geopark potential as a result of other rich geological-geomorphological formations it possesses. These include volcanic formations and features (Pasquarè et al 1988;Toprak 1998;Türkecan et al 2004;Aydar et al 2012;Erturaç et al 2017), sedimentary formations, faults, fault springs, travertine ridges, inverted synclinal structures (Koçyiğit and Doğan 2016), mammalian fauna and fossil locations (Başoğlu 2016), salt diapirs (domes) and mining, ignimbrite plateaus, mesas, buttes, badlands topography, gullies, paleo-pediments, river terraces, canyons, incised meandering and braided river channels, an inverted valley (Doğan 2010(Doğan , 2011Çiner et al 2015a), fairy chimneys (Topal 1995;Topal and Doyuran 1998;Sayın 2008;Sarıkaya et al 2015), and Paleolithic and younger archeological sites (Slimak et al 2008;Kuhn et al 2015).…”

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“…Although many geological, geomorphological, and geoheritage studies have been carried out in the Cappadocia region (e.g., Pasquarè 1968;Innocenti et al 1975;Pasquarè et al 1988;Temel et al 1998;Le Pennec et al 1994;Mues-Schumacher and Schumacher 1996;Türkecan et al 2004;Le Pennec et al 2005;Viereck-Götte et al 2010;Kadir et al 2013;Piper et al 2013;Kazancı and Gürbüz 2014;Lepetit et al 2014;Sarıkaya et al 2015;Erturaç et al 2017), no paleo-fairy chimney occurrences were reported. Nevertheless, a recent study (Sarıkaya et al 2015) carried out on the long-term bedrock erosion rates of the plateaus (pre-chimney surface) and fairy chimneys of Cappadocia using an in situ cosmogenic 36Cl isotope revealed their existence.…”

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First Paleo-Fairy Chimney Findings in the Cappadocia Region, Turkey: a Possible Geomorphosite

2018

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Fairy chimneys are conical, columnar, and mushroom-like erosional landforms sometimes exceeding 10 m in height and width that developed on ignimbrite layers in the Cappadocia region of Central Anatolia Volcanic Province. These fairy chimneys, and troglodytes carved into the ignimbrites during the Roman, Seljuk, and Ottoman eras, have turned Cappadocia into a worldrenowned site. While there are at least 10 different thick ignimbrite members in Cappadocia, fairy chimneys developed extensively on the Kavak, Zelve, and Cemilköy ignimbrites. Nevertheless, no paleo-fairy chimney development has been reported in this region so far. The aim of this study is to introduce the first buried paleo-fairy chimney findings that were detected within the Zelve ignimbrite and to explain their formation, geomorphologic evolution processes, and conditions of preservation today. This paper also assesses the establishment of a geomorphosite for the paleo-fairy chimneys in Cappadocia, where geomorphological and historical features represent the main touristic attractions. The buried paleo-fairy chimneys were determined to the northwest of Ürgüp in the Damsa valley and on the eastern slope of Mt. Akdağ. The fairy chimneys formed inside gullies that cut a paleopediment. According to geological and geomorphological observations, we suggest that the perched paleo-pediment and the buried paleo-fairy chimneys were formed at the end of the early Pleistocene. The fairy chimneys might constitute an important geormorphosite location in the northern Cappadocia region.

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First Paleo-Fairy Chimney Findings in the Cappadocia Region, Turkey: a Possible Geomorphosite

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“…The Göllüdağ massif is about 1600 m in height and is made of rhyolitic domes. Nenezi Dağ is another rhyolitic dome located to the west of the Kayırlı Corridor, west of the Göllüdağ massif (Erturaç, Okur and Ersoy 2017).…”

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A New Aceramic Neolithic Site Nearby the Obsidian Sources: Preliminary Insights from Sırçalıtepe

Balcı¹,

Algül²,

Mouralis³

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This paper is a general assessment of the studies conducted in 2019 and 2020 at the site of Sırçalıtepe. The settlement, which is dated to the 8th mill BCE, is located in the Volcanic Cappadocia region, within the borders of the Kayırlı village in the province of Niğde. With its location, it can be characterised as the nearest site to the Göllüdağ and Nenezi Dağ obsidian sources in the region. The excavations at Sırçalıtepe were carried out in two different areas of the mound. One trench is the slope trench with documented architectural remains and finds related to daily life, and the other trench is from the top of the mound where obsidian knapping debris is present in proportions commonly seen in workshop areas. The architectural remains discovered in the slope trench involve mudbrick walls, lime plastered floors, and large ovens. However, the investigated area from the top trench with abundant cores and knapping debris reveals the difference between Sırçalıtepe and other contemporaneous sites in the region. Thus, it can be argued that Sırçalıtepe, especially with its obsidian artefacts, has the potential for revealing the relationship between the workshop and the site. Portable XRF analyses performed on a group of obsidian artefacts showed that the settlement inhabitants used Göllüdağ, Nenezi Dağ, and Acıgöl obsidian sources.

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“…On the other hand, there are numerous archaeological sites since the Neolithic in the region (Fig. 5d) indicating its long cultural and environmental history during the Holocene, and their interactions through geoarchaeological studies (e.g., Woldring 2001;England et al 2008;Slimak et al 2008;Roberts et al 2011;Asouti and Kabukçu 2014;Berger et al 2016;Allcock 2017;Erturaç et al 2017;Matessi et al 2018). As a result of this, almost all data related to the Quaternary history of the region are derived from the Holocene records obtained mainly from lacustrine deposits reached through coring in lakes of different origins (tectonic and/or volcanic) and marshes (e.g., Roberts et al 2001Roberts et al , 2011Şenkul et al 2018a, b, c;Tuncer et al 2019, this issue).…”

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Paleoenvironments of the Cappadocia region during the Neogene and Quaternary, central Turkey

Gürbüz

Saraç

Yavuz³

2019

Med. Geosc. Rev.

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The Cappadocia region located in the centre of Anatolia is mainly known because of its Neogene and Quaternary volcanism and related geomorphology showing spectacular erosional landscapes. However, in contrast to its relatively well-studied volcanic and geomorphic history, studies on its sedimentary deposits together with its environmental and climatic history are still few. In this study, we outline the paleoenvironments of the Cappadocia region through sedimentological and paleontological data. We interpreted five Neogene and Quaternary depositional environments based on 29 lithofacies described in this study, and mammal and pollen fossil contents described by previous studies in the study area. Three terrestrial packages in these periods mainly represented by fluvial and lacustrine environments were elaborated through facies descriptions. Lithofacies variations in each of these successions indicate deposition in highly dynamic environments. The middle Miocene succession is mostly represented by braided river deposits expressing deposition in a relatively high energetic environment, whereas the late Miocene-Pliocene units similarly indicate a braided river system, but was dominated by lacustrine and floodplain facies intercalated with large amount of volcanic products. Quaternary sediments in the region deposited in similar environments mainly filling the large sedimentary basins bounded by active faults and around the recent riverbeds. As pointed out by palynological data, the northern part of the Cappadocia region was dominated by arboreal taxa during the middle Miocene relative to following periods, and there is a general trend of increase in steppic herbs since the early late Miocene consistent with paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic data collected from the entire Eastern Mediterranean region. Mammal fossil content of the sedimentary and volcanoclastic units in the study area, which are correlative with stratigraphic levels where palynological studies were carried out, also indicates an herb-dominated relatively arid ecosystem since the late Miocene. Faunal data in this time coincide with a dramatic diversification in Anatolia caused by regional tectonics driven by continental collision between the Eurasian and Arabian plates in the east. While the neotectonics and climatic conditions shaped the current landscape of Anatolia mainly during the early-middle Pleistocene, insufficient mammal and pollen data from this time interval still make the early Quaternary evolution of the Cappadocia region a debate. On the other hand, detailed and robustly dated palynological data from the late Pleistocene-Holocene of the region establish a gradual increase of arboreal taxa during the early Holocene, while it is characterized by an increase in steppic herbs in the late Holocene. In addition, as a result of its very rich cultural history, anthropogenic factors should have influenced this environmental change during this period, as evidenced in several locations throughout Anatolia.

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Göllüdağ Volkanik Kompleksi İçerisinde Kültürel ve Jeolojik Miras Öğeleri

Cited by 5 publications

References 19 publications

First Paleo-Fairy Chimney Findings in the Cappadocia Region, Turkey: a Possible Geomorphosite

First Paleo-Fairy Chimney Findings in the Cappadocia Region, Turkey: a Possible Geomorphosite

A New Aceramic Neolithic Site Nearby the Obsidian Sources: Preliminary Insights from Sırçalıtepe

Paleoenvironments of the Cappadocia region during the Neogene and Quaternary, central Turkey

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