PRE-CONFERENCE FIELD TRIP – 6-9 JULY 2017

The field trip to central Anatolia, Turkey will be conducted between the towns of capital Ankara and the most touristic towns of Çorum, Kayseri and Nevşehir. The trip starts from Ankara Hilton Hotel and ends at Cappadocia. It is designed to show the thick Tertiary succession and the well known ancient Hittite, Hattusa civilization (Lion Gate, Temple, and Rock-Cut Reliefs) around the town of Boğazkale (Çorum). We will spend one full day in the town of Göreme and visit Churches, Fairy Chimneys, and underground cities, built by Romans and Byzantines. This area is also known as Cappadocia where the entire tourist enjoy hot-air balloon ride is very popular.

Day 1: 06 July 2017: Leaving Ankara Hilton Hotel at 8.30. After a short city tour in Ankara we will visit the “Museum of Anatolian Civilizations” and the Ankara Castle. After having lunch, we will travel eastward on the Ankara-Samsun highway through ophiolitic mélange complex, consisting of serpentinite, pillow basalts (Figure 2), radiolorite and huge limestone blocks. It is overlain by classical turbidite sequence (Figure 3). Continue to Anitta Hotel in Çorum.

Figure 1: Enjoy your hot-air ballooning in Cappadocia

Figure 3: Late Cretaceous turbidite sequenceFigure 2: Pillow basalts along the Ankara- Kars railway tract.

GeoLoGY anD ancient HistorY of centraL anatoLiaDR. MuHITTIN ŞENALP

(RETIRED SAuDI ARAMCO SR. GEOLOGICAL CONSuLTANT)

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Day 2: 07 July 2017: Leaving hotel at 8.30 and drive to see the thick turbidite sequence (with submarine canyons, Figure 4), continental red bed sandstones, inland sabkha type evaporfites (Figure 5) and salt domes. Drive to Anitta Hotel.

Day 3: 08 July 2017: Organized city tour in Çorum and drive to Boğazkale to visit the Hittite Civilization (1750-1200 BC). We will see the lion Gate, Temple and Yazılıkaya (Figure 6). After lunch we will travel to Cappadocia (Ürgüp and Göreme)

Day 4: 09 July 2017: We will visit various churches (Figure 7), Roman and Byzantine underground cities, Fairy Chimneys, and hot-air ballooning (Figure 1) in Cappadocia. We will fly to Istanbul in the evening from Nevşehir Airport.

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Figure 4: Intermediate turbidites cut by the thick submarine canyons.

Figure 5: Inland sabkha type evaporites (nodular anhydrite)

Figure 7: Inside view of the Karanlık Church, Göreme open air museumFigure 6: The God Sharruma and King Tudhaliya dated 1250-1220 BC.

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