The sampled Upper
Devonian to lower Carboniferous succession, here referred to as the Ghoznavi section (Figs 1, 2), is a natural outcrop located in the eastern Alborz Mountains northeast of Shahrud, on the west side of the road connecting Shahrud and Azadshahr, between the Ghoznavi Bridge and the Tilabad village.
Only one
Devonian tetrapod jaw came from Gondwana - the supercontinent which incorporated present day Africa, South America, Australia, Antarctica and India.
Nostolepis striata has been reported from upper Silurian to Lower
Devonian deposits almost worldwide, but it seems likely that at least some of these records are from one of the other morphologically similar species.
The residual bitumen stored in the famous Middle
Devonian paleoreservoir of Dachang reef is estimated to be tens of millions of tons.
Apart from finds in Jordan, a
Devonian light oil discovery made in the 1980s in southern Turkey is said to be sourced by these shales.
In the
Devonian period, Waters explained, the world was experiencing super greenhouse climate conditions.
Palaeoscorpius devonicus Lehmann, 1944 from the Lower
Devonian Hunsruck Slate Lagerstatte in Germany has also been re-investigated (Kuhl et al.
These places represent Australia through pre-Rodinian and Proterozoic plate tectonic processes,
Devonian periods and mass extinction events.
This scenario comes from the late
Devonian, about 390 million years ago to roughly 360 million years ago.
The company reiterated its plan to reach a plateau of 46,000 bpd (2.3 mln tons per annum) from the field's principal
Devonian reservoir.
After a long period of emergence, movement along the Beagle Bay-Pinnacle and Fenton Faults systems during the
Devonian initiated the Fitzroy Trough and separated the Lennard Shelf.