Table 1 in Sokolowia Horizon Of The Ziarat Formation (Eastern Alborz, Iran): Biostratigraphic And Paleogeographic Implications

Table 1 Simplified lithostratigraphic description of the Kalateh section in the eastern Alborz basin from the Paleogene deposits correlated with the Kopet-Dagh-Alborz basins which are summarized from Dellenbach (1964), Stöcklin (1972), Afshar-Harb (1994) and Rezaeian (2008).
Kopet-Dagh basinAlborz Basinpresent study (eastern Alborz basin)AgeFormationLithologyAgeFormationLithologyAgeFormationLithologyearly Eocene-early OligoceneKhangiransandstone, silty marl and marl, bivalves (oysters)Middle EoceneKarajblack shale, green tuff with intercalation of tuffaceous shale, tuffaceous-sandstone, sand-stone, and calcareous shale, greyish-black calcareous and silty shalemiddle EoceneKarajsandstone, tuff, tuffaceous shale, gypsum shalemiddle Paleocene-early EoceneChehelkamansiliciclastic and limestone beds with evaporate interbeds, rich in molluscan assemblages specially oysters at the topearly Eocene-middle EoceneZiaratevaporates (gypsum), gray to greenish marl,marly limestone, and limestoneearly Eocene?- middle EoceneZiaratgray marl, limestone, silty marl, marl with shell beds (oyster)early Paleocene-middle PaleocenePestelighmarl, mudstone and siltstone red bedswith evaporate interbeds, sandstone, and conglomeratesearly Paleocene-early EoceneFajanconglomerate, red sandstones, and sandy marls---