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How Fairy Chimneys Formed?
TIME A LITTLE TIME
It's quite difficult to understand the time range in
Cappadocia
. If we think that, all extended life of a human being is approximately 70 years, 13,5 million years is hard to imagine. Therefore please try to think timing like, it's own time range.
That's why when we think about these formations' progress, it is so obvious that they can't become to these forms in few years. It takes centuries or in better words thousands of years.
Definitely it depends on how much rain, snow, erosion and wind the area would face. As we do talk about global warming in these days, the forms of these magical formations shaping are not as fast as it was in the past.
So how these
Fairy Chimneys Formed
themselves?
In most of the cases people think that they are formed from the ground magically. However there is something I have to tell. They are already inside of those valleys. If you take a look to the
Photo 1 - A
you can easily see that a new valley is being formed. Also as you can notice
Fairy Chimneys
are already trying to grow up.
Basically when corrosion starts with rain, erosion takes place afterwards. Slowly they create a valley and finally you can start to see the
Fairy Chimneys
will appear. But as I mentioned before it will take thousands of years to complete the work.
(Photo 1 - A)
Biblography
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İŞÇEN, Olcaytu & Yavuz
, Destination Cappadocia, Peribacası Kapadokya Tanıtım ve Kültür Dergisi
Ankara, 2008
Kapadokya Kafası
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