[HTML][HTML] Tectonic, magmatic, and metallogenic evolution of the Tethyan orogen: From subduction to collision

JP Richards - Ore Geology Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper reviews the tectonic, magmatic, and metallogenic history of the Tethyan orogen
from the Carpathians to Indochina. Focus is placed on the formation of porphyry Cu±Mo±Au …

The geodynamic evolution of Iran

RJ Stern, HS Moghadam, M Pirouz… - Annual Review of Earth …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Iran is a remarkable geoscientific laboratory where the full range of processes that form and
modify the continental crust can be studied. Iran's crustal nucleus formed as a magmatic arc …

The Neotethyan Sanandaj‐Sirjan zone of Iran as an archetype for passive margin‐arc transitions

J Hassanzadeh, BP Wernicke - Tectonics, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Sanandaj‐Sirjan zone of Iran is a northwest trending orogenic belt immediately
north of the Zagros suture, which represents the former position of the Neotethys Ocean. The …

Ophiolites of Iran: Keys to understanding the tectonic evolution of SW Asia:(II) Mesozoic ophiolites

HS Moghadam, RJ Stern - Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2015 - Elsevier
Iran is a mosaic of continental terranes of Cadomian (520–600 Ma) age, stitched together
along sutures decorated by Paleozoic and Mesozoic ophiolites. Here we present the current …

Timing of the Arabia-Eurasia continental collision—Evidence from detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology of the Red Bed Series strata of the northwest Zagros hinterland …

RI Koshnaw, DF Stockli, F Schlunegger - Geology, 2019 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
One of the major debated aspects of the Zagros orogenic system in the Middle East is the
timing of onset of continental collision between Arabia and Eurasia. The Zagros hinterland in …

Caucasus collisional history: Review of data from East Anatolia to West Iran

Y Rolland - Gondwana Research, 2017 - Elsevier
This article summarizes the geodynamic evolution of the Caucasus mountain belt from the
Paleozoic to Present based on a review of works from Eastern Anatolia, Greater and Lesser …

Relict basin closure and crustal shortening budgets during continental collision: An example from Caucasus sediment provenance

E Cowgill, AM Forte, N Niemi, B Avdeev, A Tye… - …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Comparison of plate convergence with the timing and magnitude of upper crustal
shortening in collisional orogens indicates both shortening deficits (200–1700 km) and …

Compositional and Geochemical Signatures of Oligocene volcanoclastic sandstones of Abbasabad-Kahak area, NE Iran: Implications for provenance relations and …

M Jafarzadeh, M Shoghani-Motlagh… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2022 - Elsevier
Petrography and geochemistry of sandstone for the lower Oligocene volcanic-related
sandstones of Abbasabad-Kahak area, NE Iran, are detected to decipher provenance …

Neogene shortening and exhumation of the Zagros fold-thrust belt and foreland basin in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq

RI Koshnaw, BK Horton, DF Stockli, DE Barber… - Tectonophysics, 2017 - Elsevier
The Zagros fold-thrust belt in the Kurdistan region of Iraq encroached southward toward a
rapidly subsiding Neogene foreland basin and was later partitioned by out-of-sequence …

Diachronous initiation of Arabia–Eurasia collision from eastern Anatolia to the southeastern Zagros Mountains since middle Eocene time

MH Darin, PJ Umhoefer - International Geology Review, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The persistent debate over the timing of initial Arabia–Eurasia collision has eluded
consensus for decades, with most estimates ranging widely from~ 50 to 10 Ma along both …