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Landscapes and Landforms of Turkey pp 551–563Cite as

Quaternary Volcanic Landscapes and Prehistoric Sites in Southern Cappadocia: Göllüdağ, Acıgöl and Hasandağ

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Abstract

The southern Cappadocia shows a large variety of Quaternary volcanic landscapes, offering the opportunity to observe beautiful and generally fresh morphologies. These landscapes include two rhyolitic complexes (Göllüdağ and Acıgöl), a huge composite volcano (Hasandağ) and numerous monogenic vents, with scoria cones, domes and maars. Natural and anthropogenic sections show a large variety of lava flows and tephra layers. The precise study of this volcanic material allows reconstructing the volcanic and geomorphologic evolution of this area during the Quaternary, including modes of emplacements, chronology of the volcanic successions, morphological impacts on the landscapes. In addition, archaeological excavations in southern Cappadocia testify for the presence of ancient populations since the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic. During the Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods, the southern Cappadocia has been intensively occupied with permanent sites (Aşıklı Höyük, Musular, Tepecik Çiftlik, Köşk Höyük, etc.) as well as non-permanent sites devoted to mining and chopping of obsidian associated with some of the volcanoes.

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  1. Rouen-Normandie University & CNRS, Laboratoire I.D.E.E.S, UMR 6266, Rouen, France

    Damase Mouralis

  2. Laboratory of Physical Geography (LGP, UMR 8591), CNRS, Universities of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and Paris 12 U-Pec, Paris, France

    Damase Mouralis & Catherine Kuzucuoğlu

  3. Department of Geological Engineering, Hacettepe University, 06800 Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey

    Erkan Aydar

  4. General Directorate of Mineral Research & Exploration, MTA, Ankara, Turkey

    Ahmet Türkecan

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Mouralis, D., Aydar, E., Türkecan, A., Kuzucuoğlu, C. (2019). Quaternary Volcanic Landscapes and Prehistoric Sites in Southern Cappadocia: Göllüdağ, Acıgöl and Hasandağ. In: Kuzucuoğlu, C., Çiner, A., Kazancı, N. (eds) Landscapes and Landforms of Turkey. World Geomorphological Landscapes. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03515-0_32

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