Sedimentology and origin of Meyghan lake/playa deposits in Sanandaj-Sirjan zone, Iran

Carbonates and Evaporites

Volumn 27, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 375-393

  Rahimpour Bonab, Hossain ^a   Abdi, Leila ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Iran; Lake playa; Late Pleistocene Holocene sediments; Meyghan; Sedimentology

Indexed keywords

CLASTIC ROCK; CLAY MINERAL; CLIMATE VARIATION; EVAPORITE; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; GYPSUM; HALITE; IONIC COMPOSITION; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLAYA; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

IRAN; SANANDAJ-SIRJAN BELT;

EID: 84871484276     PISSN: 08912556     EISSN: 18785212     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13146-012-0119-0     Document Type: Article

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