The Biga Peninsula, located in northwestern Turkey, is a sector of the Tethyan Metallogenic Belt (TMB), which stretch out from Europe to Iran. The peninsula hosts numerous epithermal Au–Ag deposits including high-(HS), low-(LS), and intermediate-sulfidation (IS) styles, porphyry Au–Cu–Mo, and base-metal skarn systems. Cenozoic calc-alkaline magmatism, spanning 52 to 18 Ma, shaped the deposits, which are associated with collisional and post-collisional tectonic regimes. Our knowledge about the magmatic-hydrothermal history and ore formation of this region is still fragmentary, particularly district-scale characteristics. Although recent scientific studies and exploration activities of the mineral industry have revealed the ore-forming potential of the region on a large scale, not much detailed data are available on a district scale for a better understanding of the magmatic-hydrothermal evolution of the area. Moreover, these deposits cluster in a narrow area and show a spatial-temporal relationship.

This thesis focuses on the Kirazlı district, which exhibits, in many ways, the common spatial-temporal relationship and overprinting features of mineral deposits found throughout the peninsula. The Kirazlı district is located at the center of the Biga Peninsula and hosts HS epithermal Au-Ag deposit and porphyry Cu mineralization with unclear temporal relationships. The purpose of this thesis is to reconstruct the magmatic-hydrothermal evolution of the Kirazlı district on the basis of field studies and micro-/macro scale observations combined with new analytical data acquired during this study.