Stratigraphy and Palaeontology
shahram navavajary; Iraj Maghfouri Moghaddam; Ali Reza Shahidi; Hamid Nazari
Abstract
Oligo-Miocene rocks are deposited between Pyrenean and Pasadenian orogenic phases. This rocks in central Iran back arc deposits are named Qom formation. There are well developed outcrops of Qom formation at the North of Central Iran zone. In order to study microbiostratigraphy of the formation, Three ...
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Oligo-Miocene rocks are deposited between Pyrenean and Pasadenian orogenic phases. This rocks in central Iran back arc deposits are named Qom formation. There are well developed outcrops of Qom formation at the North of Central Iran zone. In order to study microbiostratigraphy of the formation, Three sections, north west of Darjazin town , Bonak mount and Arvaneh were selected. In these sections Qom formation with discontinuity overlays the Lower Red formation and with the same quality under the Late Miocene Conglomerate with intercalations of Sandstone, which is equivalent to the Upper Red Formation is placed. The main lithological composition of the Qom Formation in the study area alternates between layers of limestone and Marl with intercalations of siliciclastic rocks. Members and submembers of the Qom formation type area are not visible in this area and can only based on the lithological characteristics divide to local units. Based on bentic foraminifera and other microbiostratigraphical data, Qom Formation age in north west-west of Semnan (Darjazin-After zone), which is located in the Central Alborz structural- sedimentary zone, is early Miocene epoch and Burdigalian stage, which is the equivalent of Borelis melo curdica-Borelis melo biozone.
M Mohammadi; H Amiri Bakhtiar; F Amraee
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This study aimed to compare Asmari Formation in two sections in Maleh-Kuh and Amiran anticlines based on benthonic foraminifera. In this study, 26 species and 16 genera of benthonic foraminifera from the Maleh-Kuh section yielded 2 biozones of Elphidiumsp. 14 – Peneroplis, farsenensisandBorelismelocurdica ...
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This study aimed to compare Asmari Formation in two sections in Maleh-Kuh and Amiran anticlines based on benthonic foraminifera. In this study, 26 species and 16 genera of benthonic foraminifera from the Maleh-Kuh section yielded 2 biozones of Elphidiumsp. 14 – Peneroplis, farsenensisandBorelismelocurdica – Borelismelomeloweresuggesting an age of Aquitanian – Burdigalian for the formation. In Amiran anticline based on 27 species and 20 genera only the biozone of Borelismelocurdica – Borelismelomelo (Burdigalian)was recorded.Based on this study, the Asmari sequence in Maleh-kuh Section (with a thicknessof 310m) deposited earlier In Aquitanian. But in Amiran section (with a thickness 162m) deposition started in Burdigalian and ended synchronously in both sections. In both sections the Asmari Formation overlain Shahbazan Formation disconformably and is in turn under lain by Ghachsaran Formation concordantly-transitionally in Maleh-Kuh and by a sharp contact in Amiran Section.