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Expansion and sea-level change of paleocanyon Seymareh Member (Lopha limestone), Zagros, and Iran

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This study is made clear expansion, depositional architecture, and sea-level change of the Seymareh Member. The Campanian carbonate sequence (Seymareh Member) of the Lurestan Zone, contains a rich macrofauna. Amid the bivalves, oysters (Lopha sp.) and echnoids are abundant and are mostly well conserved, in some beds dominating the fauna. Rich fossiliferous strata of Seymareh Member are 10–300 m and widespread in the south Lurestan Zone. A submarine canyon in the shelf is suggested for the depositional environment of the Seymareh Member which deepens to the east (Anaran and Surgah, Emam-Hasan anticline) and thins in west locations (Pasan, Soltan and Kabir-Kuh anticline). This present study is novel because few papers provide a complete overview of the frequency Seymareh canyons and out into deep water basins. The paleocanyon deposits conserved south Lurestan Zone provide an occasion for extending sequence stratigraphic ideas and thought associated with submarine canyons and deep-sea deposits. The Seymareh Member were deposited at a more toward the sea situated continental slope or outer belt region of the Late Cretaceous upwelling system and 4th order cyclic sequences in the Seymareh Member are recognised. Below these lowstand conditions, oyster shells were poured off the bioherms and deposited as large cross-bedded units on the flanks of the basins. At the same time, antecedent glauconite and phosphatic deposits were reworked and winnowed to form high-grade phosphorite.

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We gratefully appreciate the laboratory support supplied by the Department of Geology, Shahid Beheshti University, Shiraz University and Ferdowsi Mashhad University. We thank are Dr Ali hashmie and Saeid Afsarifard for insightful comments on earlier and final drafts of this manuscript and especially during field and laboratory work.

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Hashmie, A., Ghotbi, N., Sharyari, S. et al. Expansion and sea-level change of paleocanyon Seymareh Member (Lopha limestone), Zagros, and Iran. Carbonates Evaporites 36, 74 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13146-021-00724-7

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