Mehdi Reza Poursoltani
Department of Geology, Mashhad Branch, Islamic Azad University
Iran
Biography
Mehdi Reza Poursoltani graduated from University of Mashhad, Iran. He obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Islamic Azad University of Tehran, Iran, and his doctoral thesis was a study of Jurassic depositional environments and petrography, carried out with Dalhousie University in Canada. Much of his subsequent work has been on sedimentary environments and petrography, particularly of formations in Iran. His current interests include assessment of environments, provenance and diagenesis of Cambrian and Devonian rocks in Iran, in part during a sabbatical year at Dalhousie University.