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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…
Farshid Yousefimoghadam, Seyed Mahmood Hoseininezhad, Mohsen Allameh
Ab-deraz Formation is one of the Lithostratigraphic units of upper cretaceous (Middle Touronian-Santonian) in Kopet-Dagh sedimentary basin, located in northeastern Iran. The aims of this study are separating sequence units and determining sea level Fluctuatio…
Jie Yuan
The influence of metal cations on 13 C- 18 O bonds in carbonates is still under debate. This paper used ab initio method to investigate this kind of influence of Mg 2+ , Fe 2+ and Zn 2+ cations on 13 C- 18 O bonds in precipitated aragonite, calcite and dolomi…
Bin Yang, Weiqing Wang, Guochen Dong, Yang Guo, Zizheng Wang, Lin Hou
The Haizi diabase-granite porphyry composite rock mass is located in the Wuding-Yanjing taphrogenic trough within the Paleoproterozoic Kangdian fault-uplift zone. According to field observations, the diabase is divided into two types: central facies and margi…
Pouya Salari, Gholam Reza Lashkaripour, Mohammad Ghafoori
Presentation of empirical equations for estimating engineering properties of soils is a simple, low cost and widely-used method. One of the major concerns in using these equations is evaluating their accuracy in different conditions and regions which often le…
Batool Rivandi, Seyed Mohammad Ali Moosavizadeh
This study is the micropaleontological investigation of the Chehel-Kaman Formation of Paleocene age from Kopet-Dagh basin, NE of Iran. Thirty three species of diagnostic benthic foraminifers belonging to genera Miscellanea , Operculina , Lockhartia , Rotalia…
Elahe Javadi Mosavi, Mehran Arian, Manochehr Ghorshi, Mohammad Nazemi
In this research, Tabas area, which is located in central Iran, was selected as the study area and three geomorphic indices were calculated for its structural fronts. Through averaging these three indices, we obtained index of active tectonics (IAT). The valu…
Azar Khodabakhshnezhad, Mehran Arian, Mohsen Pourkemani
Asmari anticline is a NW-SE fold in the Dezful Embayment sub-basin of Zagros. Fars group (Late Moicene-Quaternary) is cropping out in the cores of anticlines in this area, but Pabdeh and Asmari formations (Oligocene-Early Miocene) have cropped out only in Asm…
Nazanin Jamalian Daryani, Mehran Arian, Nematllah Rashidnezhad Omran
The Ardestan-Kahang area is located in Urmieh-Dokhtar Magmatic Arc. This area is situated in Ardestan, Kouhpayeh, Kajan and Zefreh in 1:100,000 geological maps. In order to extract mineralization zones related to copper mineralization and accessories elements…
Mahdi Hoseinzadeh, Jahanbakhsh Daneshian, Seyed Ali Moallemi, Ali Solgi
The Asmari Formation is a thick carbonate sequence of the Oligocene-Miocene in the Zagros Basin, southwest of Iran. This formation is located in Bandar Abbas and Coastal Fars regions on the following two sections: Anguro anticline (west-northwest of Bandar Ab…
Salim Boulemia, Messaoud Hamimed, Salah Bouhlel, Jaloul Bejaoui
The sedimentary phosphate of marine origin mark the Paleo-Eocene period in the region of Tebessa, as elsewhere in northern Africa. The study sector of El Kouif is considered as a part of the eastern Saharan Atlas. The lithological description of the studied C…
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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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