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Subject:        Re: geologic feature in Turkey
Date:   Thu, 6 Jun 2013 12:55:10 +1000
From:   Judith Scurfield <[log in to unmask]>
To:     Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship
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Forwarded from University of Melbourne geologist Bernie Joyce:

Looked at the area both on Google Earth and Bing, and there is a dark
rocky area in the centre of the city - but can't find any geological
reference (including checking Wikipedia).

So a possible maybe, as much of Turkey has had past volcanic activity.

And nearby Göbekli tepe is an interesting and now famous archeological site!



Karaca Dag is a volcano in the area:

*Karaca Dag (also known as Karacalidag) is a broad, 1957-m-high basaltic
shield volcano in SE Turkey about 100 km north of the Syrian border. The
volcano lies on the Arabian foreland about 150 km SW of the boundary
with the Anatolian Plate and has been active since the Pliocene along a
N-S-trending set of fissures and craters associated with the nearby
Akcakale graben. Potassium-Argon dates of mid-Pleistocene age have been
obtained from Karaca Dag lava flows, but Landsat imagery suggests that
some lava flows, particularly those on the east flank, may perhaps be
only a few thousand years old (Pearce et al., 1990).*

See:

_http://www.volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=21301_
<http://www.volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=213011>



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