Biostratigraphy of Devonian-Carboniferous boundary in Tuyeh-Darvar section, north of Iran
Subject Areas :
Mineralogy
Mohammad Taghi Najjarzadeh
1
,
Ali Reaza Ashouri
2
,
Mehdi Yazdi
3
,
Ali Bahrami
4
1 - Department of Geology, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
3 - Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran
4 - Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran
Received: 2019-08-16
Accepted : 2019-12-17
Published : 2020-04-01
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