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 …

[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 …

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 …

Paleo-Tethys subduction induced slab-drag opening the Neo-Tethys: Evidence from an Iranian segment of Gondwana

B Wan, Y Chu, L Chen, X Liang, Z Zhang, S Ao… - Earth-Science …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
The Iranian plateau has a more straightforward relationship between the Paleo-Tethys and
Neo-Tethys, than other regions in the Tethyan realm and is an ideal place to test the genetic …

Cenozoic porphyry and other hydrothermal ore deposits along the South Caucasus-West Iranian tectono-magmatic belt: A critical reappraisal of the controlling factors

A Rabiee, F Rossetti, F Lucci, M Lustrino - Lithos, 2022‏ - Elsevier
In this contribution, we investigate the space and time distribution of the Cenozoic
magmatism and the associated porphyry Cu-Mo±Au and other hydrothermal (mostly …

Geochemistry, zircon U-Pb and Hf isotope for granitoids, NW Sanandaj-Sirjan zone, Iran: Implications for Mesozoic-Cenozoic episodic magmatism during Neo …

Z Zhang, W **ao, W Ji, MR Majidifard, M Rezaeian… - Gondwana …, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Abstract The Sanandaj-Sirjan zone (SSZ) of Iran comprises sedimentary and metamorphic
basement rocks, which are generally regarded as having been derived from the southern …

Temporal changes in subduction-to collision-related magmatism in the Neotethyan orogen: the Southeast Iran example

HS Moghadam, QL Li, WL Griffin, RJ Stern… - Earth-Science …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Continental-arc igneous rock compositions change in response to the transition from
subduction to collision and these changes can reveal how the crust, lithosphere and magma …

Neotethyan subduction ignited the Iran arc and backarc differently

H Shafaii Moghadam, QL Li, XH Li… - Journal of …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Most arcs show systematic temporal and spatial variations in magmatism with clear shifts in
igneous rock compositions between those of the magmatic front (MF) and those in the …

Early Carboniferous back‐arc rifting‐related magmatism in southern Tibet: Implications for the history of the Lhasa terrane separation from Gondwana

X Wang, X Lang, J Tang, Y Deng, Q He, F **e, L Li… - …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
The Lhasa terrane is widely regarded as an integral unit that separated from Gondwana in
the Carboniferous or late Triassic, but this terrane may more reasonably consist of two …

Long-lived, Eocene-Miocene stationary magmatism in NW Iran along a transform plate boundary

A Rabiee, F Rossetti, Y Asahara, H Azizi, F Lucci… - Gondwana …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Abstract The Eocene-Miocene Mianeh-Hashtroud igneous district in NW Iran is part of the
Turkish–Caucasus–Iranian collision zone, a key region to decipher the assembly and …