the study area is situated in the middle part of the tabas block. it contains outcrops of rocks that formed along longitudinal faults in early cimmerian orogenic phase. the basin subsided along these faults from the late triassic to early cretaceous, which include two sedimentary cycles. a sedimentary cycle, related to upper triassic to bajocian is known as shemshak group. another sedimentary c...

Razanandrongobe sakalavae Maganuco, Dal Sasso & Pasini, 2006 is a large predatory archosaur from the Middle Jurassic (Bathonian) of the Mahajanga Basin, NW Madagascar. It was diagnosed on the basis of teeth and a fragmentary maxilla, but its affinities were uncertain. Here we describe new cranial remains (above all, an almost complete right premaxilla and a caudally incomplete left dentary) tha...

The Neogene Rioni and Kura foreland basins in Georgia are located between the converging Greater Lesser Caucasus fold‐and‐thrust belts. Basin continues westward into Black Sea whereas extends eastward Azerbaijan Caspian Sea. “Pre‐” “post‐salt” petroleum systems distinguished separated by an Upper Jurassic evaporite succession of regional extent. pre‐salt system northern is still poorly understo...

Abstract Fe–Mn concretions and mineralizations, associated with condensed horizons hardground, are significant archives in ancient carbonate rocks. Their petro-chemical study allows an assessment of the palaeoenvironmental context which they were formed also connected to their biotic or abiotic origin. At western side Monte Inici (Fornazzo section, north-western Sicily) a well exposed outcrop p...