Karaca Dağ

Karaca Dağ
Karaca Dağ
Şanlıurfa and Diyarbakir provinces, Turkey
Elevation 1,957 m (6,421 ft)
Location
Geology
Type Shield volcano
Last eruption Unknown

Karaca is a shield volcano located in eastern Turkey.[1] According to Der Spiegel[2] of either 6 March or 3 June 2006, the Max Planck Institute for Breeding Research in Cologne[3] has discovered that the genetically common ancestor of 68 contemporary types of cereal still grows as a wild plant on the slopes of Mount Karaca (Karacadag)[4].

See also

References

  1. ^ "Karaca Dag". Global Volcanism Program, Smithsonian Institution. http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=0103-011. 
  2. ^ Der Spiegel
  3. ^ Max Planck Institute for Breeding Research
  4. ^ Manfred Heun et al.: Site of Einkorn Wheat Domestication Identified by DNA Fingerprinting, Science, 278, 1997 (pdf)