REWORKED MESOZOIC RADIOLARIANS IN MIOCENE-PLIOCENE FORELAND SEDIMENTS IN THE ZAGROS BELT, IRAN
Journal: RIVISTA ITALIANA DI PALEONTOLOGIA E STRATIGRAFIA
Year: 2024

Micropaleontology can give important insights into the provenance and paleoenvironmental conditions in terrestrial sedimentary archives. For the current study, 84 samples representing a 2.6 km thick sedimentary profile from the SimplyFolded Zagros Mountain Belt were investigated. They span ca. 10.2 my from the late Middle Miocene (Serravallian) to the earliest Pleistocene (Gelasian), and comprised floodplain sediments and saline mudstones with an aeolian contribution. The mudstones revealed a un