The Lower Triassic Sorkh Shale Formation of the Tabas Block, east central Iran: Succesion of a failed-rift basin at the Paleotethys margin

Carbonates and Evaporites

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 21-38

  Lasemi, Yaghoob ^a,e   Ghomashi, Mostafa ^b   Amin Rasouli, Hadi ^c   Kheradmand, Ali ^d  

^a KHARAZMI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SISTAN AND BALUCHESTAN   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KURDISTAN   (Iran)

^d SHAHID BAHONAR UNIVERSITY OF KERMAN   (Iran)

^e ILLINOIS STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE; EVAPORITE; FACIES ANALYSIS; LIMESTONE; MARINE SEDIMENT; PALEOCURRENT; PASSIVE MARGIN; SANDSTONE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SHALE; SUCCESSION; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; TRIASSIC; UNCONFORMITY;

ASIA; ELBURZ; EURASIA; IRAN; KHORASAN; MIDDLE EAST; TABAS;

EID: 46949101616     PISSN: 08912556     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03176249     Document Type: Article

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