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The Determination of Paleodepth Changes in the Sedimentary Basins, Using Gurpiʼs Formation Planktonic Foraminifers Morphotypes in the Bachun Stratigraphic Section (West Of Firuzabad, Iran)

Iman Bardestani Nejad1 and Mohammad Reza Esmaeilbeig1 *

1 Department of Geology, Islamic Azad University, Shiraz, Iran

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CWE.10.Special-Issue1.91

The determination of paleodepth and even its changes can have many applications in study the depositional environment and also the factors that depend on the water depth. Due to the abundance of foraminifers, especially planktonic foraminifera in the Gurpi Formation, one of the best ways to determine the changes in paleodepth is the investigation of planktonic foraminifera morphotypes abundance. By the investigation of the existing foraminifera morphotypes in the studied samples of the Gurpi Formation (Santonian - Maastrichtian) in the Bachun stratigraphic section (West of Firuzabad), an increase in the depth of water in Campanian and a decrease in depth of water in Maastrichtian is observed. 


Gurpi Formation; Paleodepth; Planktonic foraminifera morphotypes

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Bardestani-Nejad I, Esmaeilbeig M. R. The Determination of Paleodepth Changes in the Sedimentary Basins, Using Gurpiʼs Formation Planktonic Foraminifers Morphotypes in the Bachun Stratigraphic Section (West Of Firuzabad, Iran). Special Issue of Curr World Environ 2015;10(Special Issue May 2015). DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CWE.10.Special-Issue1.91

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Bardestani-Nejad I, Esmaeilbeig M. R. The Determination of Paleodepth Changes in the Sedimentary Basins, Using Gurpiʼs Formation Planktonic Foraminifers Morphotypes in the Bachun Stratigraphic Section (West Of Firuzabad, Iran). Special Issue of Curr World Environ 2015;10(Special Issue May 2015). Available from: http://www.cwejournal.org?p=678/