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Photographs of Cappadocia, including cave dwellings, cave cities, the village of Cavusin, and the Derrent Valley. In this close-up you get an idea of how the Fairy Chimneys are created by erosion.

The slightly denser rock above protects the more porous and weaker rock below -- forming a bit of a weather cap. You can imagine how it works from there.



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