Abstract This paper presents organic geochemical evidence pointing to the occurrence of wildfire events at Triassic–Jurassic boundary in Central Iran. The studied outcrop section (the Kamarmacheh Kuh section) is comprised Upper Triassic Nayband Formation which passes conformably into Lower Jurassic Ab-e-Haji with no sharp boundary. Organic petrographical studies reveal a higher concentration se...

The trace fossil assemblages from the Unit 2 of Deh-Sufiyan Formation are described for the first time from The Central Alborz Range of northern Iran,  improving the record of the assemblages in the Cambrian of the Middle East. Twenty-one ichnogenera have been identified in the Deh-Sufiyan Formation, namely Arenicolites, Bergaueria, Chondrites, Circulichnus, Cruziana, Diplichnites, Didymaulichnu...

sequence data of a recent coi barcoding study on fish from the nayband national park in the persian gulf showed relatively high sequence divergence among nominal gerres filamentosus specimens. the sequences grouped into two clusters, signaling the possible existence of cryptic species. the clustering pattern was corroborated by results of 16s rdna sequencing. we investigated the hypothesis that...

Parts of oil spills reach Iranian coastline along the Persian Gulf in the form of tar balls and scattered oilpatches. There are many published reports regarding oil spills reaching northern coasts of the Persian Gulf,but none report on the content of heavy metals associated with petroleum in sediments and plants ofcontaminated areas. This research was conducted to determine and map petroleum- r...

one section of the tarbur formation (462 m thickness) located about 5 km southwest of semirom was studied. it consists of carbonate and terrigenous rocks and contains abundant large benthic foraminifera assigned to the late maastrichtian. in the upper maastrichtian, loftusia is very abundant in carbonate sequence of the middle east tethyan realm. loftusia is an important genus for palaeontologi...

this paper proposes an extension of markov chain model to characterize of geological formations and to make conditioning on any number of well data possible. in this study, lithofacies cycles of the amiran formation at type and pirshamsedin sections are examined by markov method and entropy analysis as well as field observations, and depositional environment has interpreted by proposed ideal se...