Neotectonics and Geothermal potential of the East Anatolian Tectonic Block: A case study in Diyadin (Ağrı) geothermal field, NE Turkiye

Yıl 2023, Cilt: 171 Sayı: 171, 33 - 68, 25.08.2023

Ali Koçyiğit

https://doi.org/10.19111/bulletinofmre.1248712

Öz

The study area is Diyadin, which is situated 71 km ESE of Ağrı very close to the Turkish-Iranian State border. It is one of several type localities of promising geothermal fields in the Eastern Anatolia. The neotectonic regime and related structures are dominated by a strike-slip tectonic regime governed by a stress field in the Eastern Anatolia where the greatest principal stress (σ1) is operating in NNW direction (N22°W) while the least principal stress (σ3) is N68°E. This stress field state was proved once more by the tensor solution of the 12 June 2022 Akçift (Muradiye-Van) earthquake of Mw = 5.1. The strike-slip neotectonic regime started at the time of latest Pliocene-early Quaternary and then triggered the first occurrence of the fissure eruption along the NNW trending Kaletepe open fracture. This event was followed by the development of both the two-peaked Tendürek strato-shild volcano and the Diyadin geothermal field (DGF). The geothermal potential of the DGF is high and its most common manifestations are the active tectonic regime and related faults (extensional horse tail strucure), active volcanoes (Tendürek and Ağrı volcanoes), fumeroles, numerous hot water springs to artesian wells, widespread iron-rich alteration zones, actively
growing fissure-ridge travertines and the probable presence of the unroofed hypabyssal felsic to intermediate intrusions of Quaternary age at the roots and their near environs of the isolated Quaternary volcanoes in the Eastern Anatolia. In addition, some significant similarities and contrasts are seen between the DGF and the IGF when they are compared.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Diyadin Geothermal Field, Thermogene Fissure-ridge Travertine, Active Volcano, Active Strike-slip Tectonic Regime.

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