Abstract The Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and its surrounding areas have a long and complex
tectonic evolutionary history. Cratons and blocks, such as northern India, Lhasa, Qiangtang …

A variety of both small and large biologically intriguing compounds can be found abundantly
in the marine environment. Researchers are particularly interested in marine bacteria …

Recent reconnaissance geological mapping, identification of unconformities and
chronostratigraphic dating of Miaolingian to Ordovician strata in the eastern Alborz …

To date, microbialites include five groups: stromatolites, thrombolites, leiolites, and
dendrolites. All these microbialites occur in carbonate or silica lithologies. However …

An implicit assumption of most sedimentary provenance analyses is a direct link between
source and sink. However, recycling of sedimentary detritus from pre‐existing strata …

The middle‐upper Jurassic successions (Sargelu, Najmah, and Gotnia formations) of the
NW sector of the Zagros Mountain belt are studied to generate a sequence stratigraphic …

The stratigraphic architecture, changes of depositional systems in lateral and vertical extent,
and 3D-stacking pattern of second-and third-order sequences of the Cambrian successions …

Recent work has focused on erecting new Seilacherian ichnofacies for depositional
environments subject to recurring temporal and spatial variations in physico-chemical stress …

This study documents the distribution of matgrounds in a wide variety of environments
recorded in the Ordovician Lashkerak and Ghelli Formations in the Alborz Mountains of …

The trace fossil Rosselia with its dominant species Rosselia socialis is found with various
densities in both open-marine and delta systems of the Lower Ordovician Lashkerak …