The Zagros core: Deformation of the continental lithospheric mantle

K Priestley, D McKenzie, J Barron… - Geochemistry …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The Zagros of Iran form one of the youngest collisional orogenic belts on Earth. At shallow
depths, shortening across the Zagros is accommodated by folding in the sediments, high …

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 …

Lateral structural variation of the lithosphere‐asthenosphere system in the northeastern to eastern Iranian plateau and its tectonic implications

Z Wu, L Chen, M Talebian, X Wang… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The Iranian plateau is a natural laboratory for deciphering the lithospheric deformation and
deep dynamics in response to the Neo‐Tethyan subduction and subsequent Arabia‐Eurasia …

[HTML][HTML] Petrogenesis of OIB-like basaltic volcanic rocks in a continental collision zone: Late Cenozoic magmatism of Eastern Iran

M Kheirkhah, I Neill, MB Allen - Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2015 - Elsevier
Hundreds of compositionally diverse volcanoes have erupted on the Turkish–Iranian
Plateau in the last 15 Myr, attributed to one or more of the processes of Middle Miocene …

Mantle-flow diversion beneath the Iranian plateau induced by Zagros' lithospheric keel

A Kaviani, M Mahmoodabadi, G Rümpker, S Pilia… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Previous investigation of seismic anisotropy indicates the presence of a simple mantle flow
regime beneath the Turkish-Anatolian Plateau and Arabian Plate. Numerical modeling …

The south Zagros suture zone in teleseismic images

K Motaghi, E Shabanian, M Tatar, M Cuffaro… - Tectonophysics, 2017 - Elsevier
The geometry of intra-continental lithosphere boundaries along the Zagros orogenic belt in
the Arabia-Eurasia collision is investigated by means of teleseismic data. The data are …

Deep velocity image of the north Zagros collision zone (Iran) from regional and teleseismic tomography

M Rahmani, K Motaghi, A Ghods… - Geophysical Journal …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We inverted 3555 regional and teleseismic P-wave relative time residuals to resolve deep
velocity structure beneath the NW part of the Zagros collision zone. The data were gathered …

3-D crustal structure of the Iran plateau using phase velocity ambient noise tomography

R Movaghari, GJ Doloei - Geophysical Journal International, 2020 - academic.oup.com
More accurate crustal structure models will help us to better understand the tectonic
convergence between Arabian and Eurasian plates in the Iran plateau. In this study, the …

Upper mantle structure under the Zagros collision zone; insights from 3D teleseismic P-wave tomography

M Veisi, F Sobouti, S Chevrot, M Abbasi, E Shabanian - Tectonophysics, 2021 - Elsevier
We map the lateral variations of P-wave velocity beneath the Zagros collision zone in Iran
down to 800 km depth by regional travel time tomography. We invert 32,293 relative travel …

Lithospheric structure beneath NW Iran using regional and teleseismic travel-time tomography

K Bavali, K Motaghi, F Sobouti, A Ghods… - Physics of the Earth and …, 2016 - Elsevier
We compute a 2-D tomogram using the P wave arrival time readings from a temporary
seismic experiment to study the seismic structure of the crust and upper mantle in NW Iran …