Stratigraphy and Palaeontology
Zeinab Manouchehri; Tayebeh Mohtat; Seyed Ali Aghanabati; Morteza Khalatbari Jafari; Fatemeh Vakil Baghmisheh
Abstract
The sediments are generally limestone and marl. The lower boundary with the loer red Formation is disconfomity and the upper boundary with the equivalent formatin of Bakhtiari Firmation is paraconformity. The total number of fossils found in this section is 69 species, 72 genera and 46 families. These ...
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The sediments are generally limestone and marl. The lower boundary with the loer red Formation is disconfomity and the upper boundary with the equivalent formatin of Bakhtiari Firmation is paraconformity. The total number of fossils found in this section is 69 species, 72 genera and 46 families. These sediments are formed in an open shelf and under the open sea and lagon environment. The variety and abundance of bentic foraminifer’s forms and the low presence of plagic forms testify to the shallow basin in this section, which is also confirmed by the study of other fossils. One of the Markable features of this section is the presence of Ammonia species, especially Ammonia parkinsonia. This section has a complete sequence of members of Qom Formation. This species are profe of shallow water and continental shelf for this carbonates. This section consist all of members of Qom Formation and based on identified foraminifera comparable to assemblage zone 1 & 2 introduced by Adams & Bourgeois (1967). These zones that inclod: 1-Borealis Melo Group- Meandropsin; 2- Miogypsinoides- Archaias- Valvulinid. Based on index foraminifer's species and their stratigraphic distribution the age of this section is Chatian- Burdigalian (Upper Oligocene-Lower Miocene)
T. Binazadeh; A. Binazadeh; T. Vafaei
Abstract
The Asmari Formation is a thick carbonate sequence in Zagros foreland basin (southwest of Iran). It was deposited during Oligocene – Early Miocene ages. The formation with a thickness of 233m cropped out in the Dashtroom section (15 km south of Yasuj). This formation was studied from microfacies, ...
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The Asmari Formation is a thick carbonate sequence in Zagros foreland basin (southwest of Iran). It was deposited during Oligocene – Early Miocene ages. The formation with a thickness of 233m cropped out in the Dashtroom section (15 km south of Yasuj). This formation was studied from microfacies, sedimentary environment and biostratigrarphy point of view. Study of benthic foraminifera led to recognition of 23 genera and 32 species. In general, three assemblage biozones were recognized in this formation, consisting of: 1. Lepidocyclina- Operculina- Ditrupa assemblage zone 2. Miogypsina– Elphidium sp., Peneroplis farsensis assemblage zone 3. Borelis melo curdica- Meandropsina iranica assemblage zone An age of Early Oligocene (Rupelian- Chattian)- Early Miocene (Burdigalian) is suggested for the formation at the study area. Based on laboratory studies, nine microfacies related to three subenvironments (lagoon, bar and open marine) were identified. This study revealed that, the Asmari Formation deposited on a homoclinal epicontinental carbonate ramp.
