Abstract The Garedu Red Bed Formation (GRBF) of the northern Tabas Block (Central-East Iranian Microcontinent, CEIM) is a lithologically variable, up to 500-m-thick, predominantly continental unit. It rests gradually or unconformably on marine limestones Esfandiar Subgroup (Callovian–Oxfordian) and assigned Kimmeridgian–Tithonian. In lower part, it consists pebble- boulder-sized conglomerates/b...