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Open Journal of Geology (OJG) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in geology. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of geology. All manuscrip…
Mohammad Ali Arian, Mohammad Hasan Bazoobandi, Reza Elmi
Area studied in this paper is located in the northwest of city of Alasht. The most important varieties of studied rocks are volcanic and semi-volcanic rocks of basic nature. These rocks, which form a distinguishable solid mass on 1:100,000 geological map, bel…
Nabi Nakhaei, Mohsen Jami, Homan Najafizade, Farhad Jahani Adimi, Seyed Hossein Mirzeinaly Yazdi, Mohsen Pourkermani, Nazanin Sarhadi
Effect of Explosion on underground structures where drilled on the stony materials can be affected by explosive strength and rock mass properties of tunnel. In this paper, it has been studied on effect of explosion of 10 tons TNT on the round tunnel (diameter…
Hadi Vaseghi, Zahra Maleki, Mehran Arian
The Gavbast anticline is located in the Coastal Fars area of the Zagros folded belt, with north-south trend. The study anticline is restricted to the Bavush and Paskhand anticlines from North, the Gezzeh and Dehnow anticlines from South, the Varavi anticline…
S. Y. Zolfegharifar, M. Bosak, 1 1
Among the natural hazards, destructive earthquakes are the most common cause of casualties and financial losses and human deaths several times more in developing countries than developed countries. By increasing urbanization and construction process, construc…
Abdolhosein Kangazian, Mohammad Pasandideh
The Oligocene-Miocene Asmari Formation is a thick sequence of shallow water carbonates of the Zagros Basin. Khaviz Anticline outcrop [near Behbahan city/Iran] was studied in this research in order to interpret the facies, depositional environment and sequence…
Shahram Habibi Mood, Mohsen Jami, Javad Shahraki, Nazanin Sarhaddi
Saravan Fault is the biggest fault in southeast of Iran. It is Right-Slip fault. It has been extended from northwest to southeast. It is important to evaluate tectonic activities along this fault because it is adjacent to the city and various villages. It’s f…
Katayoon Rezaeeparto, Hossein Rahimpour Bonab, Ali Kadkhodaie, Mehran Arian, Elham Hajikazemi
Dariyan (Shuaiba) Formation is one of the main reservoir units in the Persian Gulf and South Western Iran. The microfacies and depositional environment of this formation is been investigated in the current study and influencing factors in reservoir characteri…
Ahmad Farnin
The study area is located in the west of Iran and in the north of Asadabad. This is the range between Eastern lengths of 00', 48 ° to 15', 48 ° , and northern latitudes of 45', 34 ° to 00', 35 ° . This range is limited from north to the asphalt road of Hamada…
Maryam Aminipanah, Manouchehr Ghorashi, Mohsen Pourkermani, Abdolmajid Asadi, Katayoun Behzadafshar
The August 11, 2012 M w 6.4 earthquakes in northwestern Iran occurred as a result of oblique strike-slip faulting in the shallow crust of the Eurasia plate, approximately 300 kilometer east of the plate boundary between the Eurasia and Arabia plates. The seis…
Reneé González-Guzmán
This work gives an introduction to the R package NORRRM whose main purpose is to calculate the CIPW Norm. Although there are many softwares and spreadsheets available to estimate the standard mineral assemblages in igneous rocks, this package has the followin…
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Open Journal of Geology (OJG) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in geology. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of geology. All manuscrip… All articles are open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with authors retaining copyright.
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