Cappadocia Natural Rock Formation
Cappadocia is the common name of the plains and mountainous region of eastern central Anatolia around the upper and middle reaches of the river Kizilirmak. It’s name is said to be derived from Hittite language, Katpatuka, which means land of the beautiful horses.
A beautiful natural rock formation in Cappodocia.
A view of Cappadocia rock formation.
This region's amazing landscape is largely underlain by sedimentary rock formed in lakes and streams, and ignimbrite deposits erupted from ancient volcanoes approximately 9 to 3 million years ago(late miocene to pliocene epochs). The volcanic deposits are soft rock that, for hundreds of years, the people of the Villages at the heart of the Cappodocia region carved out to form houses, churches, monasteries and underground cities. Forces of erosion have shaped the incredible and unique Cappodocian tuff-coned landscape. This natural man made structures makes eye attracttion.
Cappadocia is also famous for its fairy chimney, which is conical rock formation which consist of a cap of hard resting on a cone-shaped pinnacle of softer rock.
Fairy Chimneys in Cappadocia
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