The Arabia–Eurasia collision zone in Iran: tectonostratigraphic and structural synthesis

S Madanipour, M Najafi, R Nozaem… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The Arabia–Eurasia collision zone in the central part of the Alpine–Himalayan orogenic
system has had a complex deformation history since the Palaeozoic. In Iran, the collision …

Geologic history of the Sabzevar oceanic Basin, NE Iran: An overview from continental rifting to obduction in the NeoTethys oceanic system

A Jafari, H Ghasemi - Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2023 - Elsevier
The issue about the Sabzevar Oceanic Basin (SOB) lifetime and its paleogeographic
position, as a branch of the NeoTethyan oceanic system in Northeast Iran, has long been …

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 …

Tectonic setting and geochronology of the Cadomian (Ediacaran-Cambrian) magmatism in central Iran, Kuh-e-Sarhangi region (NW Lut Block)

F Rossetti, R Nozaem, F Lucci, G Vignaroli… - Journal of Asian Earth …, 2015 - Elsevier
The structure, age and petrogenesis of plutonic basement rocks from the Kuh-e-Sarhangi
region, located in the Kashmar-Kerman tectonic zone of Central Iran are described. These …

Slab folding and surface deformation of the Iran mobile belt

A Boutoux, A Briaud, C Faccenna, P Ballato… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Back‐arc regions are usually punctuated by pulses of tectonic deformation, lasting for few
tens of millions of years. Yet, the origin of those short‐lived deformation episodes is …

The Cimmerian accretionary wedge of Anarak, Central Iran

A Zanchi, N Malaspina, S Zanchetta, F Berra… - Journal of Asian Earth …, 2015 - Elsevier
The occurrence in Iran of several ophiolite belts dating between Late Palaeozoic to Triassic
poses several questions on the possible existence of various sutures marking the closure of …

Present stress map and deformation distribution in the NE Lut Block, eastern Iran: Insights from seismic and geodetic strain and moment rates

A Rashidi, H Kianimehr, F Yamini-Fard, M Tatar… - Pure and Applied …, 2022 - Springer
Geodetic and seismological data are crucial for examining the kinematics and active
tectonics in structural zones. The current tectonic stress field can be inferred from the focal …