Karaca Dağ

Karaca Dağ
Karaca Dağ

Şanlıurfa and Diyarbakir provinces, Turkey

Highest point
Elevation 1,957 m (6,421 ft)
Coordinates 37°40′12″N 39°49′48″E / 37.67000°N 39.83000°E / 37.67000; 39.83000Coordinates: 37°40′12″N 39°49′48″E / 37.67000°N 39.83000°E / 37.67000; 39.83000
Geography
Location Şanlıurfa and Diyarbakir provinces, Turkey
Geology
Mountain type Shield volcano
Last eruption Unknown

Karaca (Northern Kurdish: Qerejdax) is a shield volcano located in eastern Turkey.[1]

It was also known as 'Mount Masia'.[2] Which in turn was used to give the title of an Iris found on the mountain, as Iris masia.[3]

On 6 March 2006 Der Spiegel reported that the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne[4] had 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).[5] The results strongly suggest that slopes of Karaca Dağ provided the site for the first domestication of einkorn wheat approximately 9,000 years ago.

See also

References

  1. "Karaca Dag". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution.
  2. Phillips, Roger; Rix, Martyn (1991). Perennials Vol. 1. Pan Books Ltd. p. 216. ISBN 9780330327749.
  3. Pries, Bob (28 November 2013). "(SPEC) Iris masia Stapf ex Fos.". wiki.irises.org (American Iris Society). Retrieved 24 November 2014.
  4. Max Planck Institute for Breeding Research
  5. Heun, Manfred; et al. (November 1997). "Site of Einkorn Wheat Domestication Identified by DNA Fingerprinting" (PDF). Science 278: 1312–1314. Bibcode:1997Sci...278.1312H. doi:10.1126/science.278.5341.1312.
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