Sedimentology
Sh. Erfan; K. Rezaei; R. Lak; S. M. Ale Ali
Abstract
Lake Urmia is the greatest hayper salin Lake in the world. This Lake, located in Azerbaijan area, Northwest of Iran is an intra-continental sedimentary basin. Its area is about 6000 km2 with an average water depth of 6 meter. Evaluation of past climate change in Lake Urmia, according to Clay Minerals, ...
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Lake Urmia is the greatest hayper salin Lake in the world. This Lake, located in Azerbaijan area, Northwest of Iran is an intra-continental sedimentary basin. Its area is about 6000 km2 with an average water depth of 6 meter. Evaluation of past climate change in Lake Urmia, according to Clay Minerals, is the main subject for current study. For mineralogical and sedimentological investigations 18 sediment cores were collected from the east and west of Urmia lake. 96 samples from 18 sediment cores in transect to the center of lake were collected and studied by X-ray diffraction (XRD) technique. The clay minerals include Kaolinite, Illite and Montmorillonite. Kaolinite and Illite are the most important clay minerals in the Coastal plain of urmia lake. Origins of clay minerals in the Coastal plain of urmia lake are generally detrital, occurred by physical weathering and indicate composition of bed rock. The study of surface sediments indicates that amount of clay minerals from margin to center of the lake such as another detrital mineral (Quartz) is decreased. In addition, amount of them towards depth is increased. Therefore, it shows the presence of a high water level and cold - humid climate in the past (late Pleistocene).
L Abdi; H Rahimpour-Bonab
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The Meyghan Playa is an inland closed basin, which is located in center of the aquifer Arak plain. This playa is a seasonal lake and from hydrological point of view acts as erosional base level of region and is appropriate site for precipitation clastic and chemical deposits. For mineralogical and sedimentological ...
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The Meyghan Playa is an inland closed basin, which is located in center of the aquifer Arak plain. This playa is a seasonal lake and from hydrological point of view acts as erosional base level of region and is appropriate site for precipitation clastic and chemical deposits. For mineralogical and sedimentological investigations 94 sediment samples were collected from the playa. 19 samples from surface sediments in transect to the center of playa and 31 specimens from 7 cores were systematically collected and studied by X-ray diffraction (XRD) technique. The clay minerals include Illite, Chlorite, Kaolinite,Vermiculite and Smectite. Illite and Chlorite are the most important clay minerals in the playa. Origins of clay minerals in the Meyghan playa are generally detrital, occurred by physical weathering and indicate composition of bed rock. The study of surface sediments indicate that amount of clay minerals from margin to center of the playa such as another detrital mineral (Quartz) is decreased. In addition, amount of them towards depth is increased. Therefore it shows the presence of a high water level and cold - humid climate in the past (late Pleistocene).
Habib Alimohammadian; F Mahdipour Haskouei; J Sabouri
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The study area is situated at about 8 km away of Neka city, on the main road of Sari-Behshahr, in MazandaranProvince, north of Iran. It is bounded by Alborz fault in the south and Caspian Sea coast line in the north. We applied new environmental magnetism technique and methods including magnetic susceptibility, ...
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The study area is situated at about 8 km away of Neka city, on the main road of Sari-Behshahr, in MazandaranProvince, north of Iran. It is bounded by Alborz fault in the south and Caspian Sea coast line in the north. We applied new environmental magnetism technique and methods including magnetic susceptibility, magnetic mineralogy, IRM and S-IRM to reconstruct the past 50 ka climate conditions and also investigate relationship between climate change and magnetic variations. We also compared the geochemistry and magnetic analysis of the loess/palaeosol deposits and the results were used to correlate these variations with climate change in the study area. The pattern of variation of geochemical data shows similarity with those of magnetic one. The increase/decrease in magnetic susceptibility is coinciding with palaeosol/loess sequences. Plotting magnetic susceptibility variation versus lithological column of Kolet section enabled us to recognize short period of climatically cycles known as stadials/interstadials in loess/palaeosol sequences. We recognized 4 stadials for upper palaeosol, single stadial for lower palaeosol, 6 interstadials for upper loess and one interstadial for lower loess deposites.
