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AAPG Bulletin, V.
Petroleum
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Sequence stratigraphy and sea level history of the upper Paleocene strata
in the Kopet-Dagh basin, northeastern Iran
IranA. Mahboubi,1 R. Moussavi-Harami,2 Y. Lasemi,3 R. L. Brenner4
1Department of Geology, Faculty of Sciences, Mashhad
University, Mashhad 91384, Iran; email: [email protected]
2Department of Geology, Faculty of Sciences, Mashhad University, Mashhad 91384,
Iran; email: [email protected]
3Department of Geology, Faculty of Sciences, Tarbiat-Moallem University,
Tehran, Iran
4Department of Geoscience, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, 52242-1379;
email: [email protected]
AUTHORS
Asadollah Mahboubi is a member of the geology faculty at Mashhad
University, Iran. He received his B.S. degree in geology from Mashhad University, Iran, in
1984 and his M.S. degree in geology from Tarbiat-Moallem University in Tehran, Iran, in
1991. He is currently completing his Ph.D. at Tarbiat-Moallem University. Mahboubi was
previously a lab instructor at Mashhad University and a researcher at Research Center of
National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) in Tehran.
Reza Moussavi-Harami is a professor and chairman of the Geology
Department at Mashhad University, Iran, and adjunct professor at the University of Iowa.
He received his B.S. degree in geology from Mashhad University in Iran in 1972, his M.S.
degree in geology from the University of Oklahoma in 1977, and his Ph.D. from the
University of Iowa in 1980. Since 1999 he has been serving as the president of the
Geological Society of Iran.
Y. Lasemi received his B.S. degree from the Teacher Training
College in Tehran, Iran, in 1972 and his M.S. degree and Ph.D. in geology from the
University of Illinois in 1975 and 1980. He served as a consultant to the petroleum
industry in the Illinois basin between 1981 and 1986. From 1987 to the present, he has
been assistant and associate professor at the Tarbiat-Moallem University, Tehran, Iran.
His main research interests include carbonate petrology and sequence stratigraphy.
Robert L. Brenner has been on the faculty of the Department of Geoscience at the University of Iowa since 1977. Prior to that, he worked for Conoco and Marathon Oil Company. He received his B.S. degree in geology from the City College of New York in 1963, an M.S. degree in geology from the University of Montana (Missoula) in 1964, and a Ph.D. in geology from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1973.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This project was aided by an AAPG 1998 Grants-in-Aid that was awarded to
Asadollah Mahboubi to support his analytical work. We thank the Geology Department at
Mashhad University for their support of fieldwork and thin-section preparation. Thanks
also go to the Geological Survey of Iran northeastern branch for the their logistical
support during the course of this study. The Department of Geology at Tarbiat-Moallem
University of Iran also supplied financial support, and we acknowledge their support. The
Department of Geoscience at the University of Iowa provided computer support. The
constructive comments and suggestions provided by the AAPG reviewers J. Fred Read and Bob
Luocks greatly enhanced this article, and we thank them for their time and efforts.
ABSTRACT
The intracontinental Kopet-Dagh basin formed after the Middle
Triassic orogeny in northeastern Iran and southwestern Turkmenistan. This underexplored
basin could provide significant petroleum
reserves in the 21st century. The upper
Paleocene Chehel-Kaman Formation is exposed along northwest-southeast-trending folds and
is composed of carbonate strata and minor amounts of siliciclastic and evaporite beds. Six
stratigraphic sections in the central and eastern parts of the basin have been used to
divide the upper Paleocene (Thanetian) carbonate supersequence into four major carbonate
lithofacies, each having multiple subfacies. These lithofacies represent open-marine,
shoal, semirestricted lagoon, upper intertidal, and tidal-flat subenvironments that formed
on a shallow carbonate ramp. In addition, there are two siliciclastic lithofacies
consisting of calcareous shale (marl) and calcite-cemented sandstone.
The upper Paleocene interval consists of three depositional sequences (DS1, DS2, and DS3), bounded by type 2 (within the top of the underlying Pestehleigh Formation), type 2, and type 1 sequence boundaries, respectively. Sea level changes during the Thanetian in the Kopet-Dagh basin are similar to global changes proposed by Haq et al. (1988), with differences related to local and regional geological events. Upper Paleocene strata were deposited in about 4 m.y., within the range of second-order cycles. Each depositional sequence was developed as a third-order cycle composed of several shallowing-upward parasequences (fourth- to fifth-order cycles). We estimate that sea level fluctuations in the study area were between 5 and 11 m during development of parasequences.
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