The Role of Heavy Minerals in Understanding the Provenance of Sandstone: An Example from the Upper Cretaceous Tanjero Formation, Surdash Region, Northeastern Iraq
The Tanjero Formation is the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian) crops out in northeastern Iraq at the High-Folded and Imbricate Zones.To study heavy minerals, twenty sandstone samples were obtained from selected sites of the Tanjero Formation exposed at sophie allport bee curtains the southwestern limb of the Surdash anticline in the northe