Wuchiapingian deposits in northwest and southwest of Iran and their susceptibility to Late Permian tectonic subsidence

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Assist. Prof., Dept., of Geology, Faculty of Sciences, Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Iran

Abstract

Wuchiapingian deposits in Julfa area, NW Iran, and Abadeh area, SW Iran, are composed mainly of shale and limestone. The distribution of microfacies in Ali Bashi and Zal sections and two studied sections in Hambast Valley is suggestive of open marine and deep environment in mid and outer ramp settings. In Julfa and Abadeh areas, faunal and microfacies changes between Lower and Upper Wuchiapingian deposits are obvious and triggered by depth increasing and sea level rising. Considering the faunal contents and microfacies type of the Wuchiapingian deposits in the study areas, the lower parts of the Wuchiapingian strata yield a mid ramp setting while their upper parts are characteristic of outer ramp setting. Based on previously obtained results from tectonic subsidence curves for Alborz and Abadeh, the Early Permian rifting event was followed by strong subsidence in Middle and Late Permian and was associated with an increasing subsidence from North (Alborz) toward South (Abadeh). The increasing tectonic subsidence was also caused the increased thickness of deposits in a N-S trend as the thickness of Wuchiapingian deposits in Abadeh area are more than four times than those of coeval deposits in Julfa area. Considering the tectonic status of the Abadeh-Hambast Block and its situation between normal faults and formation of graben in the Permian-Triassic interval, the influence of syn-depositional tectonic is evident. This thickness increasing in Abadeh area is more evident in the lower Wuchiapingian deposits and the upper Wuchiapingian strata, Unit 6 of the Hambast Formation, has the same thickness as Upper Julfa Beds in Julfa area. Furthermore, the increasing of tectonic subsidence was led to sea level rising and deepening and caused the reduced size and diversity among brachiopods and abundance of small-sized ostracods and sponge spicules in the Upper Julfa Beds as well as pelagic fauna such as conodont and ammonoids in the Unit 6 of the Hambast Formation.

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  • Receive Date: 25 January 2022
  • Revise Date: 31 May 2022
  • Accept Date: 07 June 2022

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