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Article: TURKEY - Turkey's Geology.
- Article from:
- APS Review Gas Market Trends
- Article date:
- April 21, 2008
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With an area of 780,580 sq km, Turkey has many tectonic features. It has a narrow continental shelf along the Black Sea to the north, prospects for gas in the Marmara Sea and for oil and gas in shallow waters of the disputed Aegean Sea to the west, and onshore oil basins in the south and south-east. In its Mediterranean territorial waters, Turkey is hoping to prospect some promising areas - as in the case territorial waters of Syria, Cyprus, Lebanon, Israel, the Gaza Strip (Palestine) and Egypt (see following pages).
Tectonic features, together with hydrocarbon prospectivity, relate to pre-Mesozoic eras and a later phase of continental movements which affected ...