There are widely depositing travertine masses around the Ihlara Valley in the Central Anatolia. This region is surrounded by volcanoes and their products which have erupted in Holocene. Active and inactive travertines are deposited by hotwaters which rise up through deep-penetrated fissures in volcanoclastics. Morphological classification of the Ihlara Valley travertines reveals that there are three types; fissureridge travertines, eroded-sheet travertines and terraced-mound travertines. Although fissure-ridge travertines exhibit common properties with the other masses which are previously studied in active fault-related regions, there is no field evidence for recent faulting in the study area. Analyses of both central fissures of ridges and joints in the underlying tuffs showed that they were developed in different and periodical stress fields. It is concluded that travertine deposition related joint systems in the study area is controlled by crustal deformation of young volcanism in the vicinity.
Subjects | Geological Sciences and Engineering (Other) |
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Journal Section | Research Articles |
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Publication Date | December 31, 2007 |
Acceptance Date | July 2, 2007 |
Published in Issue | Year 2007 Volume: 20 Issue: 2 |