celadon as one of the oldest potteries originated at china during the shang period (3500 b.c (in zhejiang province. from the han dynasty (206-221 a.d), true celadon ware started to appear and these advances would be followed by various kilns in northern and southern china until 17th century. the main aims of this study include: determining the date of first arrival of celadon pottery to iran an...

The Wisconsin glaciation was started a approximately 125,000 years ago and reached its lowest extend between 20,000 to 21,000 years ago during which the sea level fell 120 to 130 meter. At the end of the ice age, about 18,000 years ago, the sea level increased and reached its present level about 5,000 years ago. The Persian Gulf was exposed in the last glacial moment (LGM). After this moment, t...

There are about 200 salt plugs in the southern part of the Zagros Mountain Ranges and the Persian Gulf in Iran (Kent, 1970). The salt comes from the Hormuz salt Formation at the base of the Phanerozoic zone. It moves upward due to the buoyancy, the latteral pressure resulting from the opening of the Red Sea to the southwest, and the weight of several thousand meters of overlying sediments. It m...

an analytical model for a coastal boundary current was used to investigate heat and salt budget of exchange flows in the persian gulf as a marginal sea. coastal boundary currents exchange heat and freshwater with the mosphere and the offshore waters. as heat and salinity fluxes caused by air-sea interaction and eddy activities, different temperature and salinity associated with boundary current...

the most enigmatic problems with the nearly 200 salt domes pierced in the persian gulf and in the zagros mountain ranges (zmr) in southern iran, a unique morphology in the world, have been the matter of this study, which is based on a combination of field work, enhancement of satellite and aerial photographs etc. in the zmr, structural anomalies are frequently associated with similar facies dis...

Total organic carbon has a major influence on both the chemical and biological processesthat take place in sediments. Algal bloom is one of the organic carbon levels in aquatic ecosystems. In 2009 algal bloom occurred in the Hormozgan province and prolonged for months, which finally setteled down in 2010. In this study the variations of total organic carbon (TOC), organic matter (TOM) and tot...

Total marine fisheries catches by Oman were estimated from 1950 to 2010, including large-scale and smallscale commercial catches, subsistence, and recreational catches, as well as major discards. Reconstructed total catches increased from around 53,600 t∙year-1 in the 1950s to almost 200,000 t·year-1 in the 2000s. This estimated catch is 1.3 times the landings reported by the FAO on behalf of O...

the nw-se trending zagros fold and thrust belt extends for about 1,800 km from a location some 300 km se of the east anatolian fault in ne turkey to the strait of hormuz where the north-south trending zendan-minab-palami fault system (zmp) separates the zagros belt from the makran accretionary prism. the ne limit of the zagros belt is marked by the main zagros reverse fault which is rotated abo...