Karaca DaÄŸ

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The Karacadağ (or Karacalıdağ ) is a 1,957 m high shield volcano in the province of Şanlıurfa in southeast Turkey, 100 km north of the Syrian border. The mountain forms the western boundary of the Tur Abdin. The highest point is called Kolubaba Summit. The solidified lava flows extend to the Tigris Valley.

The date of the last eruption is unknown. While analyzes of lava have shown with the potassium - argon dating a dating to the middle Pleistocene, suggest Satellite images show that some lava flows, especially on the east side, are only a few thousand years old.

On this volcano localized biologists at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, the ancestor of einkorn wheat, one of the first and most important cereal plants by comparing the genomes of 68 modern Einkornsorten.

Recycled water from Viranşehir is stored on the Karacadağ.