Paul Smit  Mick Palarczyk | Features, Photos and TextTwo faces, one philosophy |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
by region |
touristical subjects |
general subjects |
flowers & gardens |
FEATURE (Category: Asia | Europe | Turkey | all seasons | spring | cultural-historical | deserts | mountains)
Central Anatolia, Turkey's volcanic heart
Central Anatolia, Turkey's volcanic heart
South of Turkey's capital Ankara you can find some of the most astonishing landscapes of the planet. Here, in Cappadocia, soft volcanic tuff has been sculpted into fantastic shapes by millennia of erosion: huge pillars and mushrooms, valleys of "folded paper" and tuff cones in which early Christians carved their vibrantly painted churches. A stark contrast is provided by the barren salt flats of Tuz Gülö and the austere capital of the ancient Hittites: Hattusha.
[TURKEY.CENTRAL 26878
'Church of the Cross-2.'
An ensemble of tuff cones with rose base and grey-yellow top, at the head of the Cappadocian Güllüdere Valley, contains the Byzantine Church of the Cross (Hacli Kilise). The colour differences in the tuff (consolidated volcanic ash) are due to variations in temperature and mineral composition of the lava from which the ash was derived during its eruption. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
'Church of the Cross-2.'
An ensemble of tuff cones with rose base and grey-yellow top, at the head of the Cappadocian Güllüdere Valley, contains the Byzantine Church of the Cross (Hacli Kilise). The colour differences in the tuff (consolidated volcanic ash) are due to variations in temperature and mineral composition of the lava from which the ash was derived during its eruption. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
[TURKEY.CENTRAL 26878
'Church of the Cross-2.'
An ensemble of tuff cones with rose base and grey-yellow top, at the head of the Cappadocian Güllüdere Valley, contains the Byzantine Church of the Cross (Hacli Kilise). The colour differences in the tuff (consolidated volcanic ash) are due to variations in temperature and mineral composition of the lava from which the ash was derived during its eruption. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
'Church of the Cross-2.'
An ensemble of tuff cones with rose base and grey-yellow top, at the head of the Cappadocian Güllüdere Valley, contains the Byzantine Church of the Cross (Hacli Kilise). The colour differences in the tuff (consolidated volcanic ash) are due to variations in temperature and mineral composition of the lava from which the ash was derived during its eruption. Photo Mick Palarczyk.
filename: turkey-26878 |
All rights reserved. No permission for reproduction, including copying or saving of digital image files or text, is granted without prior written authorisation from the author.
