he objective of this study is to understand the calcareous nannoplankton response to past environmental

changes in the Strait of Hormuz during the Holocene. Calcareous nannoplankton is well abundant in the

living phytoplankton...

Gephyrocapsa oceanica, Emiliania

huxleyi, Helicosphaera carteri and Calcidiscus leptoporus. The presence of these taxa indicated the

Holocene sediments in the study area were deposited in the warm water and the Persian Gulf was a...

Iran) as a transition zone between the monsoon summer precipitation zone of south Asia and the Mediterranean winter precipitation zone of the Iranian plateau during the Holocene. Data revealed that during the late glacial - early Holocene, lake and its...