.JPG)
My primary research interest lies in the field of sedimentary basins analysis. I study all factors relating to the "production" of sediment using combination of different methods such as mineralogy, elemental and isotope geochemistry, and geochronology. Results can answer questions about what the Earth was like in the past. I am particularly interested in study of climate, tectonic, and environmental changes at the end of Precambrian to the early Phanerozoic, and their influence on sudden appearance of multi-cellular life on Earth.
My recent research focuses on: (1) studying Ediacaran-Cambrian sedimentary rocks of Iran including the Kahar, Bayandor, Soltanieh, and Barut formations to understand paleoenvironmental change across the PC-C boundary; (2) Investigating provenance and paleoenvironment of the Cenozoic sedimentary rocks in Central Iran basin to reconstruct tectonic evolution of Iran during continent-continent collision of Arabia-Eurasia.
2009-2014
Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
“PROVENANCE, DIAGENESIS AND SEDIMENTARY ENVIRONMENT OF KAHAR FORMATION IN SARBANDAN AND KAHAR MOUNTAIN SECTIONS (CENTRAL ALBORZ)”
2005-2008
“PETROGRAPHY AND SEDIMENTARY ENVIRONMENT OF LALUN FORMATION IN BAHMOO SECTION, ESFORDI, YAZD”
2001-2005
Shahid Beheshti University , Iran
- Sedimentary basin analysis
- Provenance analysis
- Sedimentation and tectonics research
- Precambrian sedimentary rocks and evidence of life that they contain
- Environmental and geochemical changes across the late Proterozoic to the early Phanerozoic and their influence on life
Since 2015
Etemad-Saeed, N., Knoll, A.H., Najafi, M., Bergmann, K.D., Haseley, N., Karimi., S., 2021. Carbon isotope chemostratigraphy of a Gondwanan Ediacaran–Cambrian transition, Soltanieh Mountains, northern Iran. Gondwana Research 99, 163-177.
Etemad-Saeed, N., Najafi, M., Vergés, J., 2020. Provenance evolution of Oligocene–Pliocene foreland deposits in the Dezful embayment to constrain Central Zagros exhumation history. Journal of the Geological Society 177, 799-817.
Qavim, N., Etemad-Saeed, N., Najafi, M., 2020. Tectonic provenance of the Upper Red Formation sandstones in the Hesar section, Mahneshan Basin (west Alborz). Geosciences 118, 37-46. (In Persian with English abstract)
Karimi, N., Etemad-Saeed, N., Bayetgoll, A., Zohdi, A., 2020. Classification of phosphatic sedimentary rocks of the Jeirud Formation in the Garmabdar section, Central Alborz. Applied Sedimentology 14, 122-128. (In Persian with English abstract)
Alimola, Z., Najafi, M., Etemad-Saeed, N., 2020. The style and timing of folding and faulting in the Mahneshan basin and Takab metamorphic complex. Tectonics Journal, University of Birjand 11, 59-70. (In Persian with English abstract)
Mousavi Taher, S.P., Bayet-Goll, A., Etemad-Saeed, N., Daraei, M., Zohdi, A., Rabbani, J., Mohammad-Zadeh, F., 2021. Biostratigraphy and Sequence stratigraphy of the Lower Carboniferous deposits in the Alborz zone based on benthic foraminifera and isotopic geochemistry. Researches in Earth Sciences (doi: 10.29252/ESRJ.2021.214437.0- In Persian with English abstract)
Bayet-Goll, A., Daraei, M., Mousavi Taher, S.P., Etemad-Saeed, N., de Carvalho, C.N., Zandkarimi, K., Monaco, P., Zohdi, A., Rabbani, J., Nasiri, Y., 2020. Variations of the trace fossil Zoophycos with respect to paleoenvironment and sequence stratigraphy in the Mississippian Mobarak Formation, northern Iran. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 551.
Etemad-Saeed, N., Najafi, M., 2019. Provenance and geochemical variations across the Ediacaran–Cambrian transition in the Soltanieh Formation, Alborz Mountains, Iran. Geological Magazine 156 (7), 1157-1174.
Hakimi, B., Masoumi, Z., Ghods, A., Etemad-Saeed, N., 2019. Microtremor HVSR Study of Site Effects in Zanjan City- Iran. Iranian Journal of Geophysics 12 (4), 115-139. (In Persian with English abstract)
Najafi, M., Vergés, J., Etemad-Saeed, N., Karimnejad, H., 2018. Folding, thrusting and diapirism: Competing mechanisms for shaping the structure of the north Dezful Embayment, Zagros, Iran. Basin Research 30 (6), 1200-1229.
Etemad-Saeed, N., Najafi, M., Zeinolabedin Qavim, N., Ghods, A.R., 2018. Facies analysis and paleo-environmental reconstruction of the Neogene sediments in the Northern Dezful Embayment, Zagros. Geosciences 108, 3-12. (In Persian with English abstract)
Taghavi, A., Najafi., M., Etemad-Saeed, N., Sedigh, M., 2018. Frontal Fars Paleo-High evolution history, SE Zagros fold-and-thrust belt. Geosciences 109, 273-284. (In Persian with English abstract)
Taghavi, A., Najafi., M., Etemad-Saeed, N., Sedigh, M., 2018. The style of folding in the Varavi, Lamerd, Tabnak, Gavbandi, Khayyam and Madar gas fields in coastal Fars. Journal of Advanced Applied Geology 27, 33-43. (In Persian with English abstract)
Etemad-Saeed, N., Hosseini-Barzi, M., 2017. Tectonic provenance of sandstones from the Bayandor Formation (late Neoproterozoic) in the Chopoghlu section, Northwest Iran. Journal of Earth Science Researches 30, 1-17. (In Persian with English abstract)
Honarmand, M., Li, X.-H., Nabatian, Gh., Rezaeian, M., Etemad-Saeed, N., 2016. Neoproterozoic–early Cambrian tectono-magmatic evolution of the Central Iranian terrane, northern margin of Gondwana: Constraints from detrital zircon U–Pb and Hf-O isotope studies. Gondwana Research 37, 285-300.
Etemad-Saeed, N., Hosseini-Barzi, M., Adabi, M.H., Miller, N.R., Sadeghi, A., Houshmandzadeh, A., Stockli, D.F., 2016. Evidence for ca. 560 Ma Ediacaran glaciation in the Kahar Formation, central Alborz Mountains, northern Iran. Gondwana Research 31, 164-183.
Etemad-Saeed, N., Hosseini-Barzi, M., Adabi, M.H., Sadeghi, A., Houshmandzadeh, A., 2015. Provenance of Neoproterozoic sedimentary basement of northern Iran, Kahar Formation. Journal of African Earth Sciences 111, 54-75.
Etemad-Saeed, N., Hosseini-Barzi, M., Adabi, M.H., Sadeghi, A., 2015. Mineralogy and geochemistry of the Neoproterozoic Kahar mudrocks in Kahar Mountain (NW of Tehran). Geosciences 94, 287-298. (In Persian with English abstract)
Etemad-Saeed, N., Hosseini-Barzi, M., Adabi, M.H., Sadeghi, A., 2013. Tectonic provenance of Kahar Formation (Late Neoproterozoic) using modal and heavy mineral analyses in sandstones, type locality, Kahar Mountain, Central Alborz. Geosciences 88, 3-12. (In Persian with English abstract)
Etemad-Saeed, N., Hosseini-Barzi, M., Armstrong-Altrin, J.S., 2011. Petrography and geochemistry of clastic sedimentary rocks as evidences for provenance of the Lower Cambrian Lalun Formation, Posht-e-badam block, Central Iran. Journal of African Earth Sciences 61, 142-159.
Hosseini-Barzi, M., Etemad-Saeed, N., 2010. Lithofacies, depositional environment and relative sea level changes in deposits attributed to Lalun Formation in Bahmoo section, Poshte badam block. Geosciences 76, 63-70. (In Persian with English abstract)
Hosseini-Barzi, M., Etemad-Saeed, N., 2010. Tectonic provenance of Lalun sandstones in Bahmoo section, Central Iran: Implications for the impact of diagenetic processes in sandstone composition. Earth Science Research 1, 97-117. (In Persian with English abstract)
Etemad-Saeed, N., Hosseini-Barzi, M., 2009. Geochemistry of Lalun sandstones in Bahmoo section, Central Iran: Implications for source rock, paleoweathering and tectonic setting. Iranian Journal of Geology 9, 53-65. (In Persian with English abstract)