The Baºkale Ba sin is lo cated in the east ern most part of Türkiye, within a tec toni cally ac tive area, and lo cated at the in ter section of Eu rope, Asia and the Mid dle East. In this study, the Dereiçi travertines, one of the most im por tant prod ucts of neotectonism in the ba sin, were in ves ti gated sedimentologically, min er al og i cally and geochemically. To un der stand the neotectonic evo lu tion of the trav er tine suc ces sion, the se quence was stud ied from bot tom to top as re gards mor phol ogy, lithofacies and U/Th dates. Crys tal line crust, coated gas bub bles, shrub, pa per-thin raft and palaeosol lithofacies have been de tected in the Derei¸i travertines, which are mor pho log i cally of layer type, two ridge types and ter race type. The Dereiçi travertines com menced to pre cip i tate at the in ter sec tion of the IêÏklÏ and IlÏcak faults at 255.56 ±9.01 ka, and their de po si tion con tin ues to day. Trav er tine de po si tion paused twice be tween 198.31 ±18-143.07 ±1.5 ka and 96.73 ±8.34-61.59 ±5.4 ka, when palaeosol de vel op ment took place. Ac cord ing to field and lab o ra tory stud ies, the Dereiçi travertines de vel oped un der cli mate and tec tonic con trol. The IêÏklÏ and IlÏcak faults played ac tive roles in the de vel op ment of the travertines. As the traver tine ages are linked to move ment on both faults, the age of the IêÏklÏ Fault should be 255.56 ±9.01 ka or ear lier, and that of the IlÏcak Fault should be 143.07 ±1.5 ka or ear lier.