Granitic record of the assembly of the Asian continent

T Wang, Y Tong, H Huang, H Zhang, L Guo, Z Li… - Earth-Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
The Asian continent consists of many continental blocks that assembled during the
Phanerozoic, accompanied by widespread granitoids. By compiling a series of digital maps …

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 …

A comprehensive evaluation of OPTICS, GMM and K-means clustering methodologies for geochemical anomaly detection connected with sample catchment basins

M Hajihosseinlou, A Maghsoudi, R Ghezelbash - Geochemistry, 2024 - Elsevier
The process of data-driven clustering to uncover geochemical anomalies linked to sample
catchment basins (SCBs) includes a comprehensive framework to discern areas exhibiting …

[HTML][HTML] Geology of the onshore Makran accretionary wedge: Synthesis and tectonic interpretation

JP Burg - Earth-Science Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
This contribution is a synthesis of studies carried out since 2004 in the Makran accretionary
wedge exposed in SE Iran. These studies were intended to improve our understanding of …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluating StackingC and ensemble models for enhanced lithological classification in geological map**

S Farhadi, S Tatullo, MB Konari, P Afzal - Journal of Geochemical …, 2024 - Elsevier
Lithological classification is a crucial aspect of mineral exploration, providing insights into
rock and mineral types in a given area. Conventional methods for lithological classification …

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 …

Pre-Eocene Arabia-Eurasia collision: New constraints from the Zagros Mountains (Amiran Basin, Iran)

G Sun, X Hu, E Garzanti, MK BouDagher-Fadel… - …, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The timing of continental collision between Arabia and Eurasia is a highly controversial
issue, on which new constraints are here provided from the Amiran Basin (Zagros …

40Ar/39Ar mineral ages of eclogites from North Shahrekord in the Sanandaj–Sirjan Zone, Iran: implications for the tectonic evolution of Zagros orogen

AR Davoudian, J Genser, F Neubauer… - Gondwana Research, 2016 - Elsevier
Eclogites are high-pressure/low-temperature metamorphic rocks and are regularly
considered as an indicator of ancient subduction zones. Eclogites have recently been found …

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 …

The Sanandaj–Sirjan Zone in the Neo-Tethyan suture, western Iran: Zircon U–Pb evidence of late Palaeozoic rifting of northern Gondwana and mid-Jurassic …

CL Fergusson, AP Nutman, M Mohajjel, VC Bennett - Gondwana Research, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The Zagros Orogen, marking the closure of the Neo-Tethyan Ocean, formed by
continental collision beginning in the late Eocene to early Miocene. Collision was preceded …