geochemicalmethods to investigate the hydrocarbon seepage samples in adiyaman a southeastern province of turkey

the southeastern part of turkey is quite rich, fertile and mature in terms of hydrocarbonseepages. while the use of the related sources meet the energy demand, it damages the environment and humanhealth. in this study, several geochemical methods were applied to analyze the hydrocarbon sepage samplesobtained from seven towns in the province of adiyaman where is very close to the oil production areas andlocated in the southeastern part of turkey. first of all, total organic carbon (toc), rock evil paralysis, gaschromatography (gc) and gas chromatography mass spectrometry analyses (gc – ms) were performedfor the samples in question. in the light of these results, oil/bitumen mechanisms, source rock correlations,formation and migration mechanisms of the related geological environments were found. then, inductivelycoupled plasma optical emission spectroscopy (icp-oes) analysis of fe, al, mn, mn, zn, b, pb, ni, cumetals were performed. chemical and mineralogical features of the samples were investigated by ir andcombined with esr spectra. the samples display typical esr spectra of mn+2 ions hyperfine sextet whoselast line was used to check the stones homogenity with respect to manganase content. in this study, heavymetal pollution and hydrocarbon compounds were determined to damage the environment and several suggestionswere made to overcome the pollution and to enhance the productivity