Reef building and carbonate production modes in the west-central Tethys during the Cenozoic

L Pomar, JI Baceta, P Hallock, G Mateu-Vicens… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2017 - Elsevier
Changing components, rock textures, lithofacies, platform types and architecture throughout
time are unique characteristics of carbonate rocks. Characterizing these attributes has been …

Palaeocene to Miocene southern Tethyan carbonate factories: A meta‐analysis of the successions of South‐western and Western Central Asia

G Coletti, L Commissario, L Mariani… - The Depositional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
One hundred and forty‐four published successions of shallow‐water carbonates, deposited
between the Palaeocene and the Miocene, from the Levant to the Himalayas, have been re …

[HTML][HTML] The Tethyan Seaway during the early to middle Miocene–New data and a review

WE Piller, M Harzhauser, M Kranner, O Mandic… - Gondwana …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Tethyan Seaway was the connection between the Eastern and Western Tethys
which became restricted and finally closed during the Early and Middle Miocene. The …

Control of climate, sea-level fluctuations and tectonics on the pervasive dolomitization and porosity evolution of the Oligo-Miocene Asmari Formation (Dezful …

Y Noorian, R Moussavi-Harami, C Hollis… - Sedimentary …, 2022 - Elsevier
The Asmari reservoir properties in various hydrocarbon fields across the Dezful Embayment
(SW Iran) are modified by dolomitization. Petrographic and geochemical analyses of the …

Open fracture clustering: Integrating subsurface and outcrop analogues, Asmari Formation, SW Iran

A Afroogh, B Rahimi, R Moussavi-Harami… - Journal of Structural …, 2023 - Elsevier
Fracture networks play a significant role in controlling fluid flow in carbonate reservoirs. Here
we have utilized a modern and rigorous technique known as normalized correlation count …

The effects of diagenesis on the petrophysical and geochemical attributes of the Asmari Formation, Marun oil field, southwest Iran

J Jafari, A Mahboubi, R Moussavi-Harami… - Petroleum Science, 2020 - Springer
The distribution of good reservoir quality and its causes is the main challenges in carbonate
reservoir characterization. This study investigates the effects of diagenetic processes on the …

Oligo-Miocene carbonate platform evolution in the northern margin of the Asmari intra-shelf basin, SW Iran

MA Dill, H Vaziri-Moghaddam, A Seyrafian… - Marine and petroleum …, 2018 - Elsevier
This study is based on seven outcrops along a regional transect in the central subdivision of
the Zagros Foreland Basin. This NE-SW trending transect extends for 140 km and covers the …

Sedimentological and diagenetic impacts on porosity systems and reservoir heterogeneities of the Oligo-Miocene mixed siliciclastic and carbonate Asmari reservoir in …

E Khazaie, Y Noorian, M Kavianpour… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Asmari Formation is largely affected by some diagenetic processes such as
dolomitization, fracturing, and dissolution in the Mansuri oilfield. These features have …

Carbonate platform evolution of the Asmari Formation in the east of Dezful Embayment, Zagros Basin, SW Iran

A Khalili, H Vaziri-Moghaddam, M Arian… - Journal of African Earth …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this study, based on a multidisciplinary approach (biostratigraphy, cyclostratigraphy, and
facies analysis), the Asmari carbonate successions were evaluated across two platform-to …

Foraminiferal biofacies and depositional environments of the Burdigalian mixed carbonate and siliciclastic Dam Formation, Al-Lidam area, Eastern Province of Saudi …

SA Chan, MA Kaminski, K Al-Ramadan… - Palaeogeography …, 2017 - Elsevier
Four outcrops along a west to east transect in the Al Lidam escarpment of Saudi Arabia were
investigated to understand the vertical and lateral distribution of foraminiferal assemblages …