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Dip‐view photograph of the Lower Eocene platform‐to‐basin transition showing clinoformal prograding geometries, stratal relationships, and depositional cycles.

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Excellent cliff exposures in the Khush‐Ab and Chenareh anticlines (Zagros Foreland Basin, SW Iran) offer a good opportunity to document stratal geometries, paleofacies heterogeneity, depositional architecture and depositional cycles of the Lower Eocene sedimentary basin system. These unique outcrops containing six logged sections have been studied across a large‐scale transect, covering ca. 10 km of continental (Kashkan Formation), carbonate‐dominated platforms (Taleh‐Zang Formation) and submarine fan to basin‐floor settings (Amiran and Pabdeh formations). Field observations of the bedding geometries revealed a set of NE–SW oriented carbonate ramp clinoforms (clinoformal units 1–4) with sigmoidal cross‐sectional shapes and an internal fore‐stepping architecture. Based on detailed facies analysis, six facies associations (FA) were identified (FA.I to FA.VI), which are interpreted to have been deposited laterally in the continental, proximal to distal and deep‐water settings of a distally steepened carbonate ramp. According to the stratal stacking pattern, bounding surface, facies architecture and internal makeup of carbonate clinoforms, four H‐F‐cycles (cycle I–IV) corresponding to a lower hierarchical rank (fourth‐order cycle) were recognized and nested within the regressive stacking pattern (HST) of a higher hierarchical rank (third‐order sequence). These H‐F‐cycles are arranged in three segments (bottomset, foreset and topset) of each clinoformal unit. Higher rank transgressive blocks (TST) discriminated each clinoformal unit by up‐deepening sets of the H‐F‐cycle V. In total, five third‐order depositional sequences were identified. The sequence, stratigraphic framework and internal makeup of this carbonate platform indicate that these carbonate sloping successions are the type of accretionary carbonate ramp clinoforms that display an ascending ramp‐slope break trajectory. Evolutionary episodes of biogenic communities, climatic change, local tectonic movements, physical processes (e.g. waves and storms) and water depth gradient are major forcing parameters that controlled the carbonate factory and depositional geometry of this Lower Eocene succession; however, carbonate‐producing organisms and eustatic sea‐level fluctuations played the first role, and local tectonic movements in response to tectonic activities of the Zagros Foreland Basin played the second role. As a result, Taleh‐Zang carbonate platforms are rich in diverse assemblages of LBFs without fragments of coral and red algae, which appear to be a consequence of a hothouse state that diminishes the global thermal gradient, weakens pycnoclines and thereby limits the turbulence.

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Lower Eocene carbonate ramp clinoforms of the southern Tethys; Zagros Foreland Basin, SW Iran: Sequence stratigraphy architecture, basin physiography and carbonate factory controlling parameters
Basin Research 35, 2049 (2023); https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12790
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Keyword(s): carbonate clinoform; distally steepened ramp; Lower Eocene; sequence stratigraphy; Zagros Basin

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