caa a22 4500 467933898 CHVBK 20180406152951.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10347-005-0018-0 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10347-005-0018-0 Depositional environment and sequence stratigraphy of the Oligo-Miocene Asmari Formation in SW Iran [Elektronische Daten] [Hossein Vaziri-Moghaddam, Masoud Kimiagari, Azizolah Taheri] The Asmari Formation, a thick carbonate succession of the Oligo-Miocene in Zagros Mountains (southwest Iran), has been studied to determine its microfacies, paleoenvironments and sedimentary sequences. Detailed petrographic analysis of the deposits led to the recognition of 10 microfacies types. In addition, five major depositional environments were identified in the Asmari Formation. These include tidal flat, shelf lagoon, shoal, slope and basin environmental settings and are interpreted as a carbonate platform developed in an open shelf situation but without effective barriers separating the platform from the open ocean. The Asmari carbonate succession consists of four, thick shallowing-upward sequences (third-order cycles). No major hiatuses were recognized between these cycles. Therefore, the contacts are interpreted as SB2 sequence boundary types. The Pabdeh Formation, the deeper marine facies equivalent of the Asmari Limestone is interpreted to be deposited in an outer slope-basin environment. The microfacies of the Pabdeh Formation shows similarities to the Asmari Formation. Springer-Verlag, 2005 Asmari Formation nationallicence Larger foraminifera nationallicence Microfacies nationallicence Sequence stratigraphy nationallicence Oligo-Miocene nationallicence Vaziri-Moghaddam Hossein Geology Department, Faculty of Science, Esfahan University, Esfahan, Iran aut Kimiagari Masoud Geology Department, Faculty of Science, Esfahan University, Esfahan, Iran aut Taheri Azizolah Geology Department, Faculty of Earth Science, Shahrood Technology University, Shahrood, Iran aut Facies Springer-Verlag 52/1(2006-03-01), 41-51 0172-9179 52:1<41 2006 52 10347 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10347-005-0018-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10347-005-0018-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Vaziri-Moghaddam Hossein Geology Department, Faculty of Science, Esfahan University, Esfahan, Iran aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kimiagari Masoud Geology Department, Faculty of Science, Esfahan University, Esfahan, Iran aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Taheri Azizolah Geology Department, Faculty of Earth Science, Shahrood Technology University, Shahrood, Iran aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Facies Springer-Verlag 52/1(2006-03-01), 41-51 0172-9179 52:1<41 2006 52 10347 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer