Abstract: The East Anatolian fault system (EAFS) of left lateral strike-slip is the second most important neotectonicstructure of Turkey. The travertine occurrence is located on the Sivrice fault zone, which is one thesignificant zone of the EAFS and precipitated on a S to SW-facing slope, 20 km SW of the Sivrice town(Elazığ) in accordance with the slope topography.The Maden Group of Middle Eocene age, on which the travertine occurrence took place, composed mostlyof mudstones with volcanic intercalations, andesite, basalt and diabase dykes that cut them. The PütürgeMetamorfics that play role as a basement rock are represented by calcschist and marble around theirSivrice exposures. Lithology of the Pütürge Metamorfics and the fractured structure of the left lateralstrike-slip Sivrice Fault Zone play an important role on the travertine formation. As the travertineexposures has been precipitated under appropriate conditions that formed by faults and bedrock in frontof a fault along the left lateral strike-slip fault zone with normal component, they have been evaluated as‘fault-front travertines’ depending on the morphological classification.The most abundant element concentrations of the travertine samples are: Ca: 378216-385220 ppm, Mg:5428-8021 ppm, Sr: 2133-6046 ppm. The δ13C values range from +3,5 to +6,7 (‰ PDB), while the δ18Ovalues are between -8.1 and -9.6 (‰ PDB). These geochemical signatures indicate that the travertinesstudied are of thermogene origin. Travertine precipitation began at least 30.86 ± 0.49 ka ago with respectto today in the field based on the U-Th age data.