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Bigadic - Hisarkoy (Balikesir) Geothermal Area located in Inner West Anatolia and 57 km west of BalД±kesir. Kretase aged serpentines, diabases, limestones, mudstones, splits, ultrabases and radiolarites consist of ofiolits and these ofiolits formed basement rocks of investigation area. This formation covered by Tertiary aged Dedetepe formation (riodacite, dacite, tuff, agglomerate) and Quaternary aged alluvium and travertine. Investigation area was effected NS directional openings in Lower Miocene - Pliocene in We...

Upper Paleozoic aged metamorphic rocks, which consist of micaschist, phyllite, metasandstone, marbles, meta dolomitic limestones were located at the basement. Upper Cretaceous ultrabasics have been overturned upon the Paleozoic metamorphic rocks. The Late Upper Cretaceous plutonic rocks are unconformably overlain by the Late Miocene-Early Pliocene volcanics, volcanism composed mainly tuffs and minor amount of volcanic breccia, agglomerate, trachyte and trachyandesitic lava flows and lacustrine volcano-sedimentary ...