Facies analysis, depositional environment and sequence stratigraphy of the Permian Ruteh Formation in north of Mahabad (NW Iran)
Subject Areas :
Mineralogy
Youssef Mohammadi Moghaddas
1
,
Rahim Mahari
2
,
Rahim Shabanian
3
,
Adel Najafzadeh
4
1 - Department of Geology, Tabriz branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran
2 - Department of Geology, Tabriz branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran
3 - Department of Geology, Faculty of science, Payam-e-noor University, Tabriz, Iran
4 - Department of Geology, Tabriz branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran
Received: 2020-09-18
Accepted : 2021-03-01
Published : 2021-03-01
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