ABSTRACT Behavior of sediment gravity flows can be influenced by seafloor topography associated with salt structures; this modify the depositional architecture deep-water sedimentary systems. Typically, salt-influenced successions are poorly imaged in seismic reflection data, and exhumed systems rare, hence detailed sedimentology stratigraphic these remains understood. The Triassic (Keuper) Bak...

The current study deals with microfacies and the depositional environment of Lower Cretaceous Sarmord Formation at selected sections in Sulaimani Erbil Governorates, northern Iraq. alternates rhythmically between yellowish grey marly limestones black marls. These lithologies are observed all studied Petrographic investigation this based on 240 thin demonstrated that carbonate constituents mainl...

Ornithischian dinosaurs have been discovered in Thailand, Laos, and Malaysia. These bird-hipped herbivores remain relatively rare by comparison with saurischian dinosaurs. In the Late Jurassic, stegosaurs basal neornithischians from Thailand showed similarities to Middle-Late Jurassic taxa China. Ornithischians appeared fossil record again during late Early Cretaceous (Aptian-Albian) of Laos. T...

a new species of cassiduloid echinoids, pygaulus baghinensis is reported for the first time from aptian sediments of baghin area, west of kerman, iran. the diagnostic features of the species are centrally positioned of the apical disc and approximately low profile of the test. variation in gonopore size in different individuals allows to conclude that p. baghinensis is sexually dimorphic. speci...

The Cretaceous Period is considered the archetypical greenhouse interval, yet there mounting evidence for intermittent cooler climatic phases throughout this geologic span. Few continental climate histories exist south of paleoequator, and fewer still Africa during time. Galula Formation one few exposed fossiliferous sedimentary successions from what now subequatorial that also contains paleoso...