Natural site· Kızılcahamam, Ankara
Kızılcahamam-Soğuksu Fosil Ağaçları
Kızılcahamam-Soğuksu Fosil Ağaçları is a natural site in Kızılcahamam, Ankara; Within Soguksu National Park, at the Kuzcapinar locality, an area roughly 1,000 square meters in size holds the trunks of trees that once stood in a lakeside region and have since turned to stone, becoming fossils.
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- 40.4406°N · 32.6090°E
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Within Soguksu National Park, at the Kuzcapinar locality, an area roughly 1,000 square meters in size holds the trunks of trees that once stood in a lakeside region and have since turned to stone, becoming fossils. It is the park's finest geosite, the product of pine and oak forest trees silicifying during the Miocene epoch. The region's bedrock consists of tuff, agglomerate, lava, claystone, and marl, which together with the silicified layers form a typical volcano-sedimentary sequence. The silicified tree fossils lie within a siliceous layer running east to west, roughly 180 meters long and 1 to 4 meters thick.
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