Building the Zagros collisional orogen: timing, strain distribution and the dynamics of Arabia/Eurasia plate convergence

F Mouthereau, O Lacombe, J Vergés - Tectonophysics, 2012 - Elsevier
The Zagros Mountains are the result of the Arabia/Eurasia collision initiated at~ 35Ma as the
rifted Arabian lithosphere was underthrusted beneath the Iranian plate due to its negative …

Comparisons of the kinematics and deep structures of the Zagros and Himalaya and of the Iranian and Tibetan plateaus and geodynamic implications

D Hatzfeld, P Molnar - Reviews of Geophysics, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
We compare the geologic histories, the deep structures, and the present‐day kinematics of
deformation of the Himalaya and the adjacent Tibetan Plateau with those of the Zagros and …

Structural evolution of the Kopeh Dagh fold-and-thrust belt (NE Iran) and interactions with the South Caspian Sea Basin and Amu Darya Basin

AMM Robert, J Letouzey, MA Kavoosi… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2014 - Elsevier
We present a detailed stratigraphic and structural study of the Kopeh Dagh fold-and-thrust
belt in NE Iran, which is an investigation of the complex polyphased tectonic history of this …

Major intracontinental strike-slip faults and contrasts in lithospheric strength

P Molnar, KE Dayem - Geosphere, 2010 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
A large fraction of major intracontinental strike-slip faults, defined here as those slip** at
rates of∼ 10 mm/yr or more, lie adjacent to relatively strong regions, such as oceanic …

Sources of in-situ 36Cl in basaltic rocks. Implications for calibration of production rates

I Schimmelpfennig, L Benedetti, R Finkel, R Pik… - Quaternary …, 2009 - Elsevier
In-situ cosmogenic 36Cl production rates from spallation of Ca and K determined in several
previously published calibration studies differ by up to 50%. In this study we compare whole …

[HTML][HTML] Defining paleoclimatic routes and opportunities for hominin dispersals across Iran

MJ Shoaee, PS Breeze, NA Drake, SM Hashemi… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Fossil and archaeological evidence indicates that hominin dispersals into Southwest Asia
occurred throughout the Pleistocene, including the expansion of Homo sapiens populations …

Present‐day kinematics and fault slip rates in eastern Iran, derived from 11 years of GPS data

A Walpersdorf, I Manighetti, Z Mousavi… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
We analyze new GPS data spanning 11 years at 92 stations in eastern Iran. We use these
data to analyze the present‐day kinematics and the slip rates on most seismogenic faults in …

Accelerated middle Miocene exhumation of the Talesh Mountains constrained by U‐Th/He thermochronometry: Evidence for the Arabia‐Eurasia collision in the NW …

S Madanipour, TA Ehlers, A Yassaghi… - Tectonics, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Talesh Mountains at the NW margin of the Iranian Plateau curve around the
southwestern corner of the South Caspian Block and developed in response to the collision …

The deep structure of the Iranian Plateau

K Motaghi, M Tatar, K Priestley, F Romanelli… - Gondwana …, 2015 - Elsevier
High resolution structures of the lithosphere–asthenosphere system beneath a seismic
profile in Iran are obtained by the simultaneous inversion of data from receiver functions and …

The Varzaghan–Ahar, Iran, Earthquake Doublet (Mw 6.4, 6.2): implications for the geodynamics of northwest Iran

A Ghods, E Shabanian, E Bergman… - Geophysical Journal …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
On 2012 August 11, a pair of large, damaging earthquakes struck the Varzaghan–Ahar
region in northwest Iran, in a region where there was no major mapped fault or any well …