Karacadağ
| Karacadağ | ||
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 View from the west of the Karacadağ Mountains |
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| height | 1957 m | |
| location | Sanliurfa Province , Turkey | |
| Coordinates | 37 ° 40 ′ 0 ″ N , 39 ° 50 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Type | Shield volcano | |
| rock | basalt | |
| Last eruption | unknown | |
The Karacadağ (or Karacalıdağ ) is a 1,957 m high shield volcano in the province of Şanlıurfa in southeast Turkey , 100 km north of the Syrian border. The mountain forms the western limit of the Tur Abdin . The highest point is called the Kolubaba Summit . The solidified lava masses reach the Tigris Depression.
The date of the last outbreak is unknown. While analyzes of the lava using potassium-argon dating have shown dating to the Middle Pleistocene , satellite images suggest that some lava flows, especially on the east side, are only a few thousand years old.
Biologists from the Max Planck Institute for Breeding Research in Cologne located the ancestor of einkorn , one of the first and most important cereal plants, on this volcano by comparing the genome of 68 modern einkorn varieties.
Viranşehir's industrial water is stored on the Karacadağ.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Manfred Heun u. a .: Site of Einkorn Wheat Domestication Identified by DNA Fingerprinting PDF-File ( Memento of the original from December 31, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Retrieved August 27, 2009.
Web links
- Karacadağ in the Global Volcanism Program of the Smithsonian Institution (English)