Depositional environments and sequence stratigraphy of the Bahram Formation (middle–late Devonian) in north of Kerman, south-central Iran

Abstract Background Happiness has multiple levels and determinants in different communities, cultures, and social groups. The current study aimed to investigate happiness and its main determinants in slums in south central Iran. Methods This community-based, cross-sectional study was conducted with the participation of adults at least 18 years of age living in the biggest slum area in Shiraz, south central Iran. To determine levels of happiness, participants were asked to complete the Persian version of the GHQ28 questionnaire and a checklist based on the 2017 World Happiness Report. Data was analyzed using SPSS software version 19. A p-value less than 0.05 was considered significant. Results The mean age of the participants was 42.06 ± 16.34 years. Overall, 542 participants (45 %) were females, 257 (21.3 %) were illiterate, 678 (56.3 %) were married, and 495 (41.1 %) were unemployed and lived with their household. The happiness score, according to the Cantril ladder score, was 6.41 ± 2 (out of a total score of 10). Happiness was not correlated with gender (p = 0.37) or immigration (p = 0.06). Lower levels of happiness were seen in older adults (r=− 0.12, p < 0.001), illiterates (p = 0.03), the unemployed (p < 0.001), and people separated from their spouses (p < 0.001). Job satisfaction (p < 0.001, r = 0.47), total general health (p < 0.001, r=-0.36) and hope (p < 0.001, r = 0.41) were significantly correlated with happiness. Social support (< 0.001) and sufficient income and satisfaction (p < 0.001) were related with a higher score of happiness. Conclusions Marital status, smoking, employment and job satisfaction, social support and trust, feelings of insecurity in the neighborhood, hope for the future, facing violence, and income satisfaction were the main determinants of happiness in the Sang Siah slum area.

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Depositional Environments and Sequence Stratigraphy of the Aptian/Albian-Lower Campanian Platform to Basin Domain in the Sarkan and Malehkuh Fields in Lurestan, Southwest of Iran

10.3997/2214-4609-pdb.248.276 ◽

2010 ◽

Author(s):

Forooz Keyvani

Keyword(s):

Sequence Stratigraphy ◽

Depositional Environments ◽

Southwest Of Iran ◽

Lower Campanian

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Sedimentary facies and depositional environments of the Oligocene–early Miocene marine Qom Formation, Central Iran Back-Arc Basin, Iran (northeastern margin of the Tethyan Seaway)

Carbonates and Evaporites ◽

10.1007/s13146-020-00553-0 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 35 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Ebrahim Mohammadi

Keyword(s):

Sedimentary Facies ◽

Depositional Environments ◽

Central Iran ◽

Early Miocene ◽

Qom Formation ◽

Tethyan Seaway ◽

Back Arc

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IMPACT RESILIENCE: ECOLOGICAL RECOVERY OF A CARBONATE FACTORY IN THE WAKE OF THE LATE DEVONIAN IMPACT EVENT

Palaios ◽

10.2110/palo.2019.001 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 35 (1) ◽

pp. 12-21

Author(s):

BENJAMIN E. RENDALL ◽

LEIF TAPANILA

Keyword(s):

Marine Invertebrate ◽

Depositional Environments ◽

Ecological Resilience ◽

Late Devonian ◽

Impact Event ◽

Geographic Ranges ◽

Marine Communities ◽

Before And After ◽

The Alamo ◽

The Impact

ABSTRACT Conformable limestone deposits bracketing the Alamo breccia (Late Devonian, Nevada) provide a robust dataset for comparisons of depositional environments and marine communities before and after a significant meteor impact. Rank abundances of more than 3000 faunal identifications from 158 sampling localities cluster in three major faunal groups that are arranged in an onshore-offshore lithofacies gradient. Comparison of faunal clusters before and after the impact show little to no dissimilarity. The recovery of marine invertebrate communities following the Alamo impact event was geologically instantaneous. Broad geographic ranges of the fauna may have contributed to ecological resilience. From a geologic perspective, marine communities appear to rebound quickly and fully following meteor impacts, leaving impact-related extinctions as outliers that correspond only to the largest impacts.

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ECOLOGICAL AND TAPHONOMIC FIDELITY IN FOSSIL CRINOID ACCUMULATIONS

Palaios ◽

10.2110/palo.2019.032 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 34 (11) ◽

pp. 575-583 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

DAVID L. MEYER ◽

WILLIAM I. AUSICH

Keyword(s):

Depositional Environments ◽

Biological Processes ◽

Post Mortem ◽

Eastern Flank ◽

South Central ◽

Middle Mississippian ◽

Symmetrical Distribution ◽

Close Proximity ◽

Marine Facies ◽

Taphonomic Analysis

ABSTRACT Among fossiliferous marine facies, deposits rich in stalked echinoderms, particularly encrinites, have long been suspected to be susceptible to taphonomic biases because intact calyxes are under-represented or masked by disarticulated skeletal debris. In the middle Mississippian Fort Payne Formation of south-central Kentucky, penecontemporaneous crinoid-rich facies are exposed in close proximity along the shores of Lake Cumberland. Crinoidal packstone buildups preserve a broad preservational spectrum, with articulated crinoid calyxes with arms and columns attached, intact calyxes, holdfasts, and long articulated columns, in a matrix of entirely disarticulated crinoidal fragments. Along a 250 m transect across the flanks and crest of this buildup, identification of 563 specimens of crinoids and blastoids revealed a symmetrical distribution of taxa in which the crest was dominated by disparid and camerate crinoids and the flanks were dominated by camerates. Taphonomic analysis of the same transect showed that intact crinoid calyxes with or without attached arms and column occurred across the entire buildup, but nearly complete specimens with attached arms and column were most common on the western flank and less common on the crest and eastern flank. Taxonomic and taphonomic distributions demonstrate a primary ecologic zonation across the buildup with only localized post-mortem dispersal of crinoids. This is the first demonstration of primary ecologic zonation of a crinoid community preserved within a single lithofacies. Depending on depositional and taphonomic circumstances, crinoids are preserved intact close to their living site; understanding these physical and biological processes provides a significant feedback in reconstructing these ancient depositional environments.

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