Temporal changes in subduction-to collision-related magmatism in the Neotethyan orogen: The Southeast Iran example

HS Moghadam, QL Li, WL Griffin, RJ Stern… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Continental-arc igneous rock compositions change in response to the transition from
subduction to collision and these changes can reveal how the crust, lithosphere and magma …

[HTML][HTML] Gondwana's interlinked peripheral orogens

PA Cawood, EL Martin, JB Murphy… - Earth and Planetary …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract After its Ediacaran-Early Cambrian assembly, Gondwana was flanked by a system
of peripheral orogens, Terra Australis, Avalonian-Cadomian and newly defined North Indo …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Widespread Cadomian–Pan-African Ediacaran magmatism across the Moroccan Meseta: Implication for the geodynamic evolution of the NW Gondwana …

M Ouabid, CJ Garrido - Precambrian Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Moroccan Meseta constitutes a key peri-Gondwanan and Variscan terranes
linking the branches between the SW European Cadomian and the north West African …

Neoproterozoic to early Paleozoic crustal growth, recycling, and the changing geodynamics of North Gondwana

HS Moghadam, QL Li, WL Griffin, XH Li, O Karsli… - Gondwana …, 2024 - Elsevier
Understanding crustal growth, reworking, and geodynamics of the northern continental
margin of Gondwana during Ediacaran to Silurian times plays an important role in …

Subduction initiation causes broad upper plate extension: The Late Cretaceous Iran example

HS Moghadam, RJ Stern - Lithos, 2021 - Elsevier
Subduction initiation (SI) requires the sinking of one plate beneath another and this exerts
extensional stress on the overlying plate. How broad a region is affected by SI-related …

[HTML][HTML] Early Paleozoic extensional tectonics along Gondwana's northern margin: Insights from Iran

Y Zoleikhaei, JA Mulder, PA Cawood - Gondwana Research, 2024 - Elsevier
The Paleozoic tectonic evolution of the northern margin of Gondwana is inferred to comprise
several episodes of continental breakup and ocean opening. However, the timing and …

Tectonic transition from Ediacaran continental arc to early Cambrian rift in the NE Ardakan region, central Iran: Constraints from geochronology and geochemistry of …

F Nouri, AR Davoudian, N Shabanian, MB Allen… - Journal of Asian Earth …, 2022 - Elsevier
Ediacaran-early Cambrian magmatic rocks from the Ardakan region of central Iran include
deformed granites from deformed granitic plutons and dolerites from doleritic sills. The …

Zircon U–Pb–Hf and whole‐rock Sr–Nd isotopic insights on the Silurian syenite–monzonite shoshonitic magmatism of Central Iran

N Nayebi, D Raeisi, S Babazadeh, XP Xia… - Geological …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The Palaeozoic magmatic history of Central Iran is related to the subduction of the Proto‐
Tethys Ocean and the amalgamation of Gondwana continental fragments. This study …

A Jurassic volcanic passive margin in Iran and Turkey

H Azizi, RJ Stern, R Kandemir, O Karsli - Terra Nova, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Broadly similar Early to Middle Jurassic stratigraphic sequences including bimodal
igneous rocks of the Sanandaj–Sirjan Zone of Iran and the Sakarya Zone of Turkey suggest …