The geodynamic evolution of Iran

RJ Stern, HS Moghadam, M Pirouz… - Annual Review of Earth …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Iran is a remarkable geoscientific laboratory where the full range of processes that form and
modify the continental crust can be studied. Iran's crustal nucleus formed as a magmatic arc …

Evolution of the Zagros sector of Neo-Tethys: Tectonic and magmatic events that shaped its rifting, seafloor spreading and subduction history

A Jafari, S Ao, S Jamei, H Ghasemi - Earth-Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
The evolution of the Neo-Tethys realm had a significant impact on the Phanerozoic
paleogeography of the Iran Plateau. However, there remains significant debate regarding …

Early Neogene foreland of the Zagros, implications for the initial closure of the Neo-Tethys and kinematics of crustal shortening

M Pirouz, JP Avouac, J Hassanzadeh… - Earth and Planetary …, 2017 - Elsevier
We study the transition from passive margin to foreland basin sedimentation now exposed in
the High Zagros belt to provide chronological constraints on the initial stage of Arabia …

Orogenic plateau growth: Expansion of the Turkish‐Iranian Plateau across the Zagros fold‐and‐thrust belt

MB Allen, C Saville, EJP Blanc, M Talebian… - Tectonics, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
This paper shows how the Turkish‐Iranian Plateau grows laterally by incrementally
incorporating adjacent parts of the Zagros fold‐and‐thrust belt. The limit of significant …

Cenozoic exhumation and foreland basin evolution of the Zagros orogen during the Arabia‐Eurasia collision, western Iran

DE Barber, DF Stockli, BK Horton, RI Koshnaw - Tectonics, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Cenozoic exhumation patterns in the internal and external Zagros reveal a long‐term
deformation record associated with geodynamic restructuring of Arabia‐Eurasia collisional …

Modeling the flexural evolution of the Amiran and Mesopotamian foreland basins of NW Zagros (Iran‐Iraq)

E Saura, D Garcia‐Castellanos, E Casciello… - …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The evolution of the Amiran and Mesopotamian flexural basins of the Zagros belt is
approached by coupled 2‐D forward modeling of orogenic wedge formation, lithospheric …

Salt tectonics and tear faulting in the central part of the Zagros Fold-Thrust Belt, Iran

S Jahani, J Hassanpour, S Mohammadi-Firouz… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2017 - Elsevier
The central part of the Zagros Fold-Thrust Belt is characterized by a series of right-lateral
and left-lateral transverse tear fault systems, some of them being ornamented by salt diapirs …

Opposite shear senses: Geneses, global occurrences, numerical simulations and a case study from the Indian western Himalaya

D Dutta, S Mukherjee - Journal of Structural Geology, 2019 - Elsevier
Opposite shear sense (OSS) is manifested by the presence of conflicting shear sense
indicators in a portion of a rock body, a shear/fault zone or across several parallel shear/fault …

Pliocene growth of the Dowlatabad syncline in Frontal Fars arc: Folding propagation across the Zagros Fold Belt, Iran

M Najafi, E Beamud, J Ruh, F Mouthereau… - …, 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The integration of biostratigraphy, strontium isotope stratigraphy, and magnetostratigraphy
allowed for the precise dating of the> 3.0-km-thick marine to non-marine foreland …

A new method of seismic site classification using HVSR curves: A case study of the 12 November 2017 Mw 7.3 Ezgeleh earthquake in Iran

S Yaghmaei-Sabegh, R Rupakhety - Engineering Geology, 2020 - Elsevier
On the 12th of November 2017, a strong earthquake with a moment magnitude of 7.3 struck
the west of Iran, causing massive damage in SarpoleZahab and surrounding areas. In this …