Magnetotelluric investigation in Thrace Basin, Northwestern Turkey

6254 Magnetotelluric investigation in Thrace Basin Northwestern Turkey A.T. Basokur* (Ankara University) & C. Kaya (Cumhuriyet University) SUMMARY 5 th Congress of Balkan Geophysical Society — Belgrade Serbia 10 – 16 May 2009Introduction The Thrace basin is one of the most important hydrocarbons (especially natural gas) producing areas of Turkey. The existing drill holes do usually not reach the basement and the depth of investigation of seismic reflection profiles doesn’t provide information about the basement depth. The magnetotelluric method was preferred for the estimation of the sediment thickness in the Thrace basin by reason of its costeffective implementation along lengthy