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    HOW CAPPADOCIA FORMED?

    There are numbers of ideas about how Cappadocia formed itself. Some of the authorities support most common thought there are three main volcanoes of region Erciyes, Hasandag and Gollu Mountains formed Cappadocia. This is kind of true but not exactly. I am going to prove this.



    If you want to determine the age of soil, you have to dig the soil and get a sample. After you have the sample than you can do C - 14 (Carbonate 14) experiment to understand the age of it. When you do this experiment to the soil in Cappadocia soil is almost 8 to 7 million years of age. However when you do the same experiment to the Mount Erciyes you can see the age is only(!) 0.9 million years. So basically when Cappadocia formed, Mount Erciyes was yet creating itself. Also when you look at the dates, the periodically explosions of the Mount Erciyes is in between 597,000 - 83,000.

    So how Cappadocia formed itself?

    Kapadokya'nın Oluşumu

    Basaltic Flow

    MOUNTAINS

    When you first arrive Cappadocia you are going to feel like you are inside of a soup bowl. The reason of this feeling is because of the mountains which surrounds the region. According to Geologists, the range of mountains starts from Konya Meke Mountain to Mount Erciyes in Kayseri. There are 42 of them named and they are all Stratovolcanoes1. In between these mountains there used to be either one or number of seas were located.




    1 Type of volcano which is conical shaped and erupts periodically. Also when the eruption happens Stratovolcanoes the lava flow doesn't go far from the mountain.

    Now I want you to think 42 Stratovolcanoes erupting all of their lava slowly but constantly into those water supplies since 13,5 million years to 190.000. As a result of these eruptions there was thick lava and ash layer formed. At this point we have to talk about, everytime an eruption happened, the sky covered with ash for minimum 25 - 30 years.



    For example at this point we have to talk about Pompei. Why those people in Pompei turned into statues?
    In 79 A.D. when Vesuvius exploded pyroclastic flow passed inside of people 200 km per hour with 600 ℃
    Basically people didn't die because of lava flow they died because of ashes turned them into statues. If it was lava itself, even their teeth would burn and we wouldn't find any remainings.

    Pompei

    It assumed to be these eruptions kept going until 190.000. As we all know sooner or later these eruptions had to end at one point. So it ended. The lava straight loses it strength and instead of full eruptions those 42 volcanoes started to spurt. After those spurtings weren't strong enough, the mouth of the mountaing covered with lava and ash. So that's why you don't see 42 Mega Volcanoes only see 3. The rest of the volcanoes looks more like hills instead of mountains.



    P.S.: When you come to tour we would be able to see some of them from a distance. If you want to check those 42 volcanoes you can click this     link.

    NATURE & FORMATIONS

    If you want to learn more about the formations and so on please click How Fairy Chimneys Formed?

    CAPPADOCIA & KULADOCIA & VANADOCIA

    Kuladokya

    Kuladocia (Manisa - Kula)

    One of the most asked question; Is Cappadocia only place in the world with these formations?

    Answer is No.

    Wherever you find stratovolcanoes, water and nature you might have this type of formations. What makes Cappadocia unique is not the formations, it is history of humanity. Otherwise you can find these formations even in different parts of Turkey.



    You can take a look for these pictures that I shared.

    Vanadokya

    Vanadocia (Van - Başkale)

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