Sedimentology
B. Mirzapour; R. Lak; M. Aleali; M. Djamali; R. Shahbazi
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Lake Urmia is one of the largest salt supersaturated lakes in the world that is located in northwestern Iran. Many wetlands are located around of Lake Urmia, especially in the southern part of the lake. Wetlands are important as a platform for recording environmental and climatic events. The ...
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Lake Urmia is one of the largest salt supersaturated lakes in the world that is located in northwestern Iran. Many wetlands are located around of Lake Urmia, especially in the southern part of the lake. Wetlands are important as a platform for recording environmental and climatic events. The subject of this research is studying sedimentology and statistical parameters of sedimentology in the analysis of different sedimentary environments in the sediments of southern wetlands around Lake Urmia, including Kani Barazan and Solduz wetlands. The purpose of this study is reconstructing the fluctuations of the water table of Lake Urmia and its effect on wetland areas in the Holocene period. For this purpose, sedimentary cores with maximum depth of 12 meters and total depth of about 200 meters using a handi auger and 8 hole cores by a vibra corer were collected and examined. Sedimentary facies were identified and separated based on texture and sediment structure, composition of destructive sediments and organic matter, color, presence of plant remnant and shell residues and other macroscopic components. Sampling was performed based on changes in the type of sediments and sedimentary facies. 150 sediment samples were separated for grain size analysis. The samples were analyzed using two methods, wet sieving and particles smaller than sand (silt and clay) by laser device (Laser particle Sizer Analysette). Statistical parameters of sedimentology were calculated using Sedilizer software and were analyzed by SPSS software. Two samples of plant remnant were dated by C14-AMS isotope method. The results indicate that there are 8 facies, belonging to 3 sedimentary environments of lake, wetland and alluvial. The dating results show the average sedimentation rate in the southern part of Lake Urmia is about 0.5 mm per year. However, sedimentation rates vary in different sediment depths. According to the analysis of different cores, the reconstruction of the paleogeography of the south of Lake Urmia and it`s extention had been done in the last 20,000 years. This study shows that in the late quaternary Lake Urmia has expanded to the beginning of the current Siminehrud. At the late Pleistocene and the early Holocene, the coastline regression in the southern part and the alluvial sediments of the Zarrinehrood and Siminehrood rivers occurred in the south of the region. The late Holocene was associated with decreasing water table, slightly dry conditions (around 4000 years ago) and the expansion of marginal playa. The situation in the region has been permanent for about 2000 years.
Sedimentology
Sh. Erfan; K. Rezaei; R. Lak; S. M. Ale Ali
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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, ...
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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).
K Nezhadafzali; S Shayn; R Lak; M Yamani; M Ghorashi
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Mud volcano is a natural and attractive phenomenonwhich is generally found as a dome-like feature and basin-shaped in some cases. Mud volcanoes comprise mixtures of water, mud and gas. They are found in most parts of the world particularly in the Alps and Himalaya belts. In Iran, most of the mud volcanoes ...
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Mud volcano is a natural and attractive phenomenonwhich is generally found as a dome-like feature and basin-shaped in some cases. Mud volcanoes comprise mixtures of water, mud and gas. They are found in most parts of the world particularly in the Alps and Himalaya belts. In Iran, most of the mud volcanoes appear in the coastal plains of the Caspian and Oman seas. Mud volcanoes are commonly considered as indicating presence of oil and gas reserves, and are used to predict subsurface hydrocarbon fields. One or two mud volcanoes were formerly found between Minab and Jask in the Hormozgan Province. Remote sensing study followed by a field work of 30 days in this research led, for the first time, to the identification of 15 mud volcanoes in the Hormozgan Province using clustering analysis. During the field study, a sediment sample was taken from each mud volcano, which was then geochemically analyzed by ICP-OES. In the meantime, grain size was also determinedfor each sample. The SPSS software was used to process the data.After determining correlation coefficients, clustering analysis,and relationship between different factors obtained from Scuter plot, it turned out that AL, Fe, Ni, V, Sc, Ti, Cr, Zn, CU, Mn, Na, K, Li and Be in the mud volcanoes aregeogenic/continentalin origin, while the source of Ca,Mn and S is marine/intra-basinal and biogenic.
j Darvishi Khatouni; R Lak; A Mohammadi
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The Lake Urmia is the greatest hyper saline 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 meters. Hydrochemistry of the water resources of the basin showed mainly chloridic ...
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The Lake Urmia is the greatest hyper saline 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 meters. Hydrochemistry of the water resources of the basin showed mainly chloridic and sulfidic composition due to the geology of the surrounding areas and its variable lithology and Inlet water are supplied from the permanent and seasonal rivers. The hydrochemical investigations were carried out over a time period from 2007 to 2012 using previously published data together with newly collected water samples. 120 samples were collected during 6 years. The analaysis results showed Na-Mg-Cl type of the brinefrom 2007 to 2010, which is comparable with the Great Salt Lake in the USA. The chemical composition of lake in 2007 showed the percentage of sodium is higher than Magnesium. In 2011 and 2012 water composition is HCO3<<Ca+Mg. That is, the path of brine composition on the Eugster and Hardie flow diagram has changed from row III2b (Na-Mg-Cl) to (Mg-Na-Cl) in 2011 and 2012 after halite crystallization and may finally result in Mg-Cl-SO4 brine type in the future. The Sodium to Magnesium ratio is 5.12 in 2007. However, this amount in 2011 is 0.68 and 0.56 in 2012. In future, with Increasing ofevaporation, the Magnesium to sodium ratio increases and chemical compositions of the brine in the north and south of the Shahid Kalantari Highway experience more difference.
R Lak; M Taghizadeh
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The Persian Gulf has an area about 240000 km2, considered as the northern part of the counterclockwise movement of Arabian Plate and as a recent example of Holocene carbonated sedimentary environment in dry (arid) climate. The basin volume, regarding to its average depth (36m), is estimated about 87,000km3. ...
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The Persian Gulf has an area about 240000 km2, considered as the northern part of the counterclockwise movement of Arabian Plate and as a recent example of Holocene carbonated sedimentary environment in dry (arid) climate. The basin volume, regarding to its average depth (36m), is estimated about 87,000km3. The present study was done in order to examine the sea level changes and determine the rate of sedimentation of Holocene deposits in the northeast of Persian Gulf. A complete and undisturbed core from the Holocene deposits (1070 cm length) located in the south of Rajaee port in theHormozgan province was prepared. Following the exact description of this core, based on the objective observations, 52 samples were taken according to the facies divisions and they were sedimentologically and geochemically tested. The granulometric analysis, mineralogy by XRD method, abundance percentage of elements by ICP-OEC device and polarograph, percentage of organic matter by the Rock Eval device, percentage determination of carbonates by automatic calcimeter device were done for all samples and 10 samples were dated by 14C AMS method. The granulometric results indicated that most of the deposits are mud containing sand and gravel. The gravels are mainly related to shell fragments. The amount of carbonates varies from 17 to 84 percent. The silisiclastic deposits include quartz, feldspar, muscovite, pyroxene and clay minerals such as kaolinite, chlorite, montmoryonite, illite and paligorskite. The chemical and biochemical sediments are mainly calcite, dolomite and aragonite. The percentage of organic matter contained in the sediments varies from 0.02 to 0.13. The variation curve of calcium and strontium, which indicates intrabasinal sediments, is correlated to sea level changes in combination with objective evidences such as grain size, sediment type, and amount of organic matter, texture and structure of sediments. The abundance of most elements especially Al, Mg, Mn, Cr, Ba with continental origin, revealed a reversed relation with the sea level variations. In addition, two significant phases of rapid transgression have occurred from 6800 to 3700 and from 9300 to 7900 years ago. The dating results showed that the average rate of sedimentation in the study area is about 1mmper year(966mm/ka).
R Behbahani; R Lak; N Chanani; G Hosseinyar
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In order to study of organic geochemistry of bed sediments in Khowr-e-Mussa and its adjacent marine areas, 61 surface sediment samples were collected. Based on granulometric analysis of the sediments, 4 major sedimentary types comprising mud, sandy mud, muddy sand, and slightly gravelly muddy sand were ...
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In order to study of organic geochemistry of bed sediments in Khowr-e-Mussa and its adjacent marine areas, 61 surface sediment samples were collected. Based on granulometric analysis of the sediments, 4 major sedimentary types comprising mud, sandy mud, muddy sand, and slightly gravelly muddy sand were determined. The bed sediments are mainly composed of terrigenous (quartz, feldespar, rock fragments, carbonate lithics and clay minerals) and chemical – biochemical (bivalve, gastropod, foraminifera, ostracod and bryozoa) particles. Based on the organic geochemistry studies, the total organic carbon (TOC) varies from 0.11 to 0.70 %wt, which increases in the muddy sediments. The studied kerogens (based on S2/TOC diagram) indicate that the kerogen types III (%33) and mixture of III-II (%55) are the most abundant. In addition, the hydrogen index versus Tmax diagram, revealed the similar results. The studied kerogens indicated that this part of the Persian Gulf affected by the transportation of terrestrial (fluvial, III type) rather than the marine organic matter (II type).
