Facies, sedimentary environments and sequence stratigraphy of Cretaceous deposits in the northwest of Azerbaijan, Iran

Subject Areas : Mineralogy

Rahim Mahari ¹ , Rahim Shabanian ² , Farahnaz Reihani ³ , Hamideh Shetabifard ⁴ , Somaieh Sadigh Janbahan ⁵

1 - Department of Geology, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran.
2 - Department of Geology, Payam noor University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran.
3 - Department of Geology, Payam noor University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran.
4 - Department of Geology, Payam noor University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran.
5 - Department of Geology, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran.

Received: 2017-11-20 Accepted : 2018-05-30 Published : 2019-04-01

Keywords: microfacies, Azerbayjan, sequence stratigraphy, sedimentary environments, Cretaceous,

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