From Early Jurassic intracontinental subduction to Early-Middle Jurassic slab break-off magmatism during the Cimmerian orogeny in the Sanandaj-Sirjan Zone, Iran

N Shabanian, F Neubauer - Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2024 - Elsevier
This study aims to review the Jurassic to Cretaceous tectonic setting of the Sanandaj-Sirjan
Zone (SaSZ), the inner part of the Zagros orogen. For many years, the SaSZ was interpreted …

Age, geochemistry, and emplacement of the~ 40-Ma Baneh granite–appinite complex in a transpressional tectonic regime, Zagros suture zone, northwest Iran

H Azizi, S Hadad, RJ Stern… - International Geology …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The Baneh plutonic complex is situated in the Zagros suture zone of northwest Iran between
the Arabian and Eurasian plates. This complex is divided into granite and appinite groups …

Overview of the tectonic evolution of the Iraqi Zagros thrust zone: Sixty million years of Neotethyan ocean subduction

SA Ali, AP Nutman, KJ Aswad, BG Jones - Journal of Geodynamics, 2019 - Elsevier
The world's largest ongoing collisional orogeny is the Europe Alps–Himalayan–SE Asian
belt and is a natural laboratory to understand many processes that have shaped the …

The Van microplate: a new microcontinent at the junction of Iran, Turkey, and Armenia

H Azizi, M Tsuboi - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2021 - frontiersin.org
In northwestern Iran, magmatic activity occurred during three main intervals: The
Cretaceous, Eocene, and Miocene-Quaternary. The first two phases of magmatic activity are …

The tectonic evolution of the Dras arc complex along the Indus Suture Zone, western Himalaya: Implications for the Neo-Tethys Ocean geodynamics

IM Bhat, T Ahmad, DVS Rao - Journal of Geodynamics, 2019 - Elsevier
In this study we present new whole-rock geochemical data on the Dras arc complex
exposed along the Dras–Kargil National Highway, western Ladakh. This complex forms a …

Zircon U–Pb ages and geochemistry of Devonian A-type granites in the Iraqi Zagros Suture Zone (Damamna area): New evidence for magmatic activity related to the …

IK Abdulzahra, A Hadi, Y Asahara, H Azizi… - Lithos, 2016 - Elsevier
The Damamna granite (DG) is located in the Shalair Valley area in northeast Iraq within the
Sanandaj Sirjan Zone (SSZ). The zircon U–Pb ages for the DG rocks are 364–372 Ma …

A unique period of bimodal volcanism at 130–110 Ma in the northern Sanandaj-Sirjan Zone: Evidence for an extensional setting

B Rahimzadeh, S Mahmoudi, F Corfu, V Ahadnejad… - Lithos, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Sanandaj-Sirjan metamorphic-magmatic Zone (SaSZ) represents the Mesozoic
active continental margin of the Neotethys Ocean between the Arabian plate and the Iranian …

Mid-Cretaceous extensional magmatism in the Alborz Mountains, north Iran; geochemistry and geochronology of Gasht-Masuleh gabbros

L Rezaei, MJ Timmerman, M Moazzen… - Swiss Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract In the Gasht-Masuleh area in the Alborz Mountains, gabbroic magma intruded
Palaeozoic metasediments and Mesozoic sediments and crystallised as isotropic and …

[PDF][PDF] Petrography and diagenesis of the middle to upper Jurassic succession from Sargelu section, northeastern Iraq

RH Rasool, SA Ali, AI Al-Juboury - Al-Kitab Journal for Pure Sciences, 2023 - iasj.net
Petrographic and diagenetic analysis of the Middle-Upper Jurassic successions (Sargelu,
Naokelekan, and Barsarin) formations and boundaries between them in the Sargelu area …

Generation and exhumation of granitoid intrusions in the Penjween ophiolite complex, NW Zagros of the Kurdistan region of Iraq: Implications for the geodynamic …

SA Ismail, RI Koshnaw, DE Barber, H Al Humadi… - Lithos, 2020 - Elsevier
The Penjween ophiolite complex represents a remnant of the Neotethys oceanic crust that
was preserved in the Zagros Suture Zone of NE Iraq. The complex is composed of dunite …