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Batman Üniversitesi, Mühendislik-Mimarlık Fakültesi, Petrol ve Doğalgaz Mühendisliği Bölümü, Batman
Abstract
The study area is located 30 km northwest of Adıyaman province in Southeast Anatolia region of Türkiye. In the region, from the Cretaceous to the Neogene, geological units formed in different periods. Karababa and Karaboğaz Formations belong to the Cretaceous aged Mardin Group and Adıyaman Group respectively and represent our work examples. Analyzes were conducted to determine organic content and element contents on 30 samples collected from these formations. Total organic carbon content was determined to be between 1.04-7.09% for Karaboğaz Formation, 0.1-3.22% for Karababa Formation, and to have an immature-early mature and good oil resource rock potential according to the adhering pyrolysis analysis. The relationships between the Corg-S-Fe of the studied samples were generally found to be compatible with each other. This indicates that it provides the appropriate conditions for the preservation of organic matter in the depositional environment and that the environment is oxic-dysoxics. It was concluded that the samples examined with parameters such as C-S-Fe, Ni/Co, V/Cr and V/(V+Ni), U/Th, V/Sc, Th/ have depositional environment effects with variable redox conditions.
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