The Meso-Tethys Ocean: The nature, extension and spatial-temporal evolution

JJ Fan, BC Zhang, JB Zhou, Y Niu, SL Sun, JP Lv… - Earth-Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
The nature, extension, and evolution of the Meso-Tethys still remain unclear to researchers,
and this has thereby hindered in-depth study of the Tethys tectonic domain. In this paper, we …

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 …

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 …

Evolution of the Zagros sector of Neo-Tethys: Tectonic and magmatic events that shaped its rifting, seafloor spreading and subduction history

A Jafari, S Ao, S Jamei, H Ghasemi - Earth-Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
The evolution of the Neo-Tethys realm had a significant impact on the Phanerozoic
paleogeography of the Iran Plateau. However, there remains significant debate regarding …

Geodynamic evolution of Upper Cretaceous Zagros ophiolites: formation of oceanic lithosphere above a nascent subduction zone

HS Moghadam, RJ Stern - Geological Magazine, 2011 - cambridge.org
The Zagros fold-and-thrust belt of SW Iran is a young continental convergence zone,
extending NW–SE from eastern Turkey through northern Iraq and the length of Iran to the …

Transient, synobduction exhumation of Zagros blueschists inferred from P‐T, deformation, time, and kinematic constraints: Implications for Neotethyan wedge …

P Agard, P Monié, W Gerber, J Omrani… - Journal of …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
We present the first P‐T, deformation time, and kinematic constraints on the only known
blueschist facies rocks (BS) present in the Zagros (Hajiabad area). The BS were …

[HTML][HTML] On the nature of the Cimmerian Continent

AMC Şengör, D Altıner, C Zabcı, G Sunal, N Lom… - Earth-Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Cimmerian Continent is the narrow continental strip that rifted from the
northeastern Gondwana-Land margin mostly during the Permian between the present-day …

The Cimmerian evolution of the Nakhlak–Anarak area, Central Iran, and its bearing for the reconstruction of the history of the Eurasian margin

A Zanchi, S Zanchetta, E Garzanti, M Balini, F Berra… - 2009 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
New structural, sedimentological, petrological and palaeomagnetic data collected in the
region of Nakhlak–Anarak provide important constraints on the Cimmerian evolution of …

[HTML][HTML] Significance of Nain-Baft ophiolitic belt (Iran): Short-lived, transtensional Cretaceous back-arc oceanic basins over the Tethyan subduction zone

HS Moghadam, H Whitechurch, M Rahgoshay… - Comptes Rendus …, 2009 - Elsevier
Four dismembered massifs belonging to the Nain-Baft ophiolitic belt (Central Iran) stretch in
a NW-SE direction parallel to the fossil active margin of the Iranian Continental Block …

Shattered veins elucidate brittle creep processes in the deep slow slip and tremor region

J Muñoz‐Montecinos, S Angiboust, A Garcia‐Casco… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Deep Slow Slip and Tremors (SSTs) are a combination of transient clusters of
tectonic tremors and slow slip associated with extremely elevated fluid pressures. SSTs are …