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`Karacadaĝ Volcano, Siverek District, Şanlıurfa Province, Turkeyi
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37° 42' North , 39° 34' East
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Up to 11 Ma
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PlacePopulationDistance
Siverek175,341 (2012)22.8km
Çermik20,975 (2015)49.6km


Largest Cenozoic shield volcano in the circum-Mediterannean area and reaches a height of 1957 m (Lustrino et al.2010).

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Woolley A.R. (2019) Alkaline Rocks and Carbonatites of the World. Part 4: Antarctica, Asia and Europe, p.224.
Ekici, T., Macpherson, C. G., & Otlu, N. (2012). Polybaric melting of a single mantle source during the Neogene Siverek phase of the Karacadağ Volcanic Complex, SE Turkey. Lithos, 146, 152-163.
Ekici, T., Macpherson, C. G., Otlu, N., & Fontignie, D. (2014). Foreland magmatism during the Arabia–Eurasia collision: Pliocene–Quaternary activity of the Karacadağ Volcanic Complex, SW Turkey. Journal of Petrology, 55(9), 1753-1777.
Le Maitre, R. W., Streckeisen, A., Zanettin, B., Le Bas, M. J., Bonin, B., Bateman, P., ... & Lamere, J. (2002). Igneous rocks: A classification and glossary of terms; Recommendations of the International Union of Geological Sciences. In Subcommission on the Systematics of Igneous rocks. Cambridge University Press.
Lustrino, M., Keskin, M., Mattioli, M., Lebedev, V. A., Chugaev, A., Sharkov, E., & Kavak, O. (2010). Early activity of the largest Cenozoic shield volcano in the circum-Mediterranean area: Mt. Karacadag, SE Turkey. European Journal of Mineralogy, 22(3), 343-362.
Lustrino, M., Keskin, M., Mattioli, M., & Kavak, O. (2012). Heterogeneous mantle sources feeding the volcanic activity of Mt. Karacadağ (SE Turkey). Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 46, 120-139.
Pearce, J. A., Bender, J. F., De Long, S. E., Kidd, W. S. F., Low, P. J., Güner, Y., ... & Mitchell, J. G. (1990). Genesis of collision volcanism in Eastern Anatolia, Turkey. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 44(1-2), 189-229.

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