The Effect of Sandstone Composition on Distribution of Tafoni Landforms in the Aghajari Sandstone, Northwest of Masjed Soleyman, Iran

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Microscopic images of Aghajari sandstone under polarized light. (a) Illustrating quartz (Q), carbonate lithic (Lc) fossil fragments (F), peloid (P), and calcite cement shown by arrow. (b) Abundant calcite (C) and dolomite (D) cements with floating grains of feldspar (F) and quartz in them; arrows show remaining particles of cement in porosity (P). (c) Development of carbonate matrix (M) among the particles especially peloid (P), iron oxide (horizontal arrow), and calcite (vertical arrow).

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