Acıgöl
- Volcano type: Caldera
- Volcano number: 213004
- Latitude: 38.537°N
- Longitude: 34.621°E
- Elevation: 1683 m
- Distance to Ankara: ~220 km
- Closest city: Nevşehir~15 km
- Population within 5 km: 127,683
- Population within 10 km: 127,683
- Population within 30 km: 218,469
- Population within 100 km: 2,253,483
Acigöl is a caldera in central Anatolia, near the town of Nevşehir, and only ~70 km from Kayseri. The approximately 7x8 km Pleistocene caldera is part of a larger, older buried caldera. The caldera walls are largely indistinct, but the caldera contains maars, lava domes, lava flows and pyroclastic cones. The lava flows range from basaltic flows, to obsidian. The youngest obsidian lava domes are found in the west, dated to about 20,000 to 15,000 years old. Numerous scoria layers are identified, with 13 from about 11,000 to 4,300 years identified in the Eski-Acigöl maar.
Five Holocene-age eruptions are recorded, between 2080 BCE and 7810 BCE.
References
Atıcı, G., Schmitt, A.K., Friedrichs, B., Sparks, S., Danisik, M., Yurteri, E., Gündoğdu, E.A., Schindlbeck-Belo, J., Çobankaya, M., Wang, K.L., Lee, H.Y. 2019. ‘’Ages and glass compositions for paired large‑volume eruptions from the Acigöl volcanic complex, Cappadocia (Turkey)’’, Med. Geosc. Rev. (2019) 1: 167, https://doi.org/10.1007/s42990-019-00013-5.
Druitt, T. H., Brenchley, P.J., Gokten, Y.E., Francaviglia, V. 1995. ‘’Late Quaternary rhyolitic eruptions from Acigol Complex, central Turkey’’, J Geol Soc London, 152, 655-667
Global Volcanism Program, 2013. Acigol-Nevsehir (213004) in Volcanoes of the World, v. 4.7.7. Venzke, E (ed.). Smithsonian Institution. Downloaded 18 Apr 2019 (https://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=213004). https://doi.org/10.5479/si.GVP.VOTW4-2013
Mouralis, D., Pastre, JF., Kuzucuoğlu, C. Türkecan, A., Guillou, H. 2019. ‘’Tephrostratigraphy and chronology of the Quaternary Gölludağ and Acıgöl volcanic complexes (Central Anatolia, Turkey)’’, Med. Geosc. Rev., 1, 179. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42990-019-00010-8.