![Cappadocia: Pyroclastic Layers Cappadocia: Pyroclastic Layers](icons-cappadocia/ja115.jpg) Strata of white, soft ignimbrite are heavily affected by erosion. | ![Cappadocia: Pyroclastic Layers Cappadocia: Pyroclastic Layers](icons-cappadocia/mf101.jpg) Erosion exposes layers of different composition and colour. | ![Cappadocia: Pyroclastic Layers Cappadocia: Pyroclastic Layers](icons-cappadocia/mf103.jpg) Sometimes the soft white strata covers harder, darker ones. | ![Cappadocia: Pyroclastic Layers Cappadocia: Pyroclastic Layers](icons-cappadocia/mf105.jpg) Soft layers on top of even softer ones: note the undulating roof. |
![Cappadocia: Pyroclastic Layers Cappadocia: Pyroclastic Layers](icons-cappadocia/mf037.jpg) Columns of soft white and yellow material no longer protected by hard, dark ones. | ![Cappadocia: Pyroclastic Layers Cappadocia: Pyroclastic Layers](icons-cappadocia/mf050.jpg) Erosion "paints" abstract art on thin, alternating strata of yellow and white ignimbrite. | ![Cappadocia: Pyroclastic Layers Cappadocia: Pyroclastic Layers](icons-cappadocia/mf095.jpg) Man-made doors in yellow ignimbrite contrasts white material in the background. | ![Cappadocia: Pyroclastic Layers Cappadocia: Pyroclastic Layers](icons-cappadocia/mf098.jpg) On the contrary, these arches are not man-made but sculptured by wind erosion. |
![Cappadocia: Pyroclastic Layers Cappadocia: Pyroclastic Layers](icons-cappadocia/mf174.jpg) Peribacalari Vadisi along the road from Urgup to Zelve. | ![Cappadocia: Pyroclastic Layers Cappadocia: Pyroclastic Layers](icons-cappadocia/mf181.jpg) Almost all "hats" of hard material have fallen off these columns. | ![Cappadocia: Pyroclastic Layers Cappadocia: Pyroclastic Layers](icons-cappadocia/mf258.jpg) Here two columns only still have their "hats". | ![Cappadocia: Pyroclastic Layers Cappadocia: Pyroclastic Layers](icons-cappadocia/mf260.jpg) Magical sunset in a mystic landscape. |