Introduction to foraminifera of Kish Island coastal substrate up to 30 centimeter

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Masoomeh Sohrabi-Mollayousefy ¹ , Seiyd-Hamid Vaziri ² , Maryam Sahba ³ , Sara Eskandary ⁴ , Somaye Rahimi-fard ⁵

1 - استادیار گروه زمین شناسی دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد اسلامشهر
2 - استاد گروه زمین شناسی دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد تهران شمال
3 - مدرس گروه زمین شناسی دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد اسلامشهر
4 - کارشناس ارشد رشته زمین شناسی دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد تهران شمال
5 - کارشناس ارشد رشته زمین شناسی دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد تهران شمال

Received: 2016-09-07 Accepted : 2016-09-07 Published : 2011-03-21

Keywords: Persian Gulf, coral deposits, core, Khark limes tones,

Abstract :

Kish coralline Island is the most important ones in Persian Gulf and form of carbonate biochemical deposits.Kish Island is located 18 km of Iranian main land and part of folded Zagross. Island’s rocks made fromPleistocene Khark limestone. In this research introduce of foraminifera have done in 2 parts: surface and coresamples. In surface studies of Foraminifera, 7 genera and 33 species were identified that most abundance of themis Ammonia beccarii. But in core samples studies of Foraminifera, 5 genera and 2 species were identified.According to core samples studies any foraminifera with agglutinate test didn’t identify