Writers : Christian, Louis
Refference : Geosciences Scientific Quarterly Journal,No.:20,P.:70
Publishing Year : 1375

Abstract :

Present day isopach and lithofacles distributions as well as palinspastic reconstructions for strata of Cambro- Ordovician, Silurlan, Devonian, and Carboniferous ages are mapped for an area in the Middle East extending approximately 20 of latitude from S. E. Turkey to N. Yemen and about 20 ° of longitude from Jerusalem to Hormuz.
The primary purpose of this study is to document the regional extent of Paleozoic petroleum source rocks, which in the Lower Silurian are known to contain richly organic black graptolitic shales, and Paleozoic sandstone reservoir rocks, which are often good to excellent in the Carboniferous and Devonian, and fair to relatively poor in the Cambro- Ordovician.
A second objective is to reconstruct as much as possible older Paleozoic regional stratigraphic patterns across the Main Zagros Fault, undeterred by strike slip offsets of several kinds and ages, and in spite of metamorphic and intrusive igneous episodes in Central Iran which tend to mask what would otherwise have been fairly obvious regional sedimentary patterns.

Subject List : Isopach map