Fairy chimneys
by Carolina Cavazos-Guerra, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
These unique sedimentary structures in Cappadocia near Goreme are the result of the eroded deposits from ancient volcano eruptions over thousands of years.
Categories
- Geodynamics (363)
- Interdisciplinary/Other (818)
- Seismology (210)
- Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Palaeontology (509)
- Tectonics and Structural Geology (569)
Location
- Asia (1061)
- Western Asia (301)
- Turkey (72)
- Exact location (34.8362 E, 38.6487 N)
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3072 × 2304 px;
image/jpeg; 4.0 MB
Camera:
Canon PowerShot A710 IS
Taken on 30
April
2011
Submitted on 13 March 2012
Licence
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)
Credit
Carolina Cavazos-Guerra (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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