[HTML][HTML] Orogenic architecture of the Mediterranean region and kinematic reconstruction of its tectonic evolution since the Triassic

DJJ Van Hinsbergen, TH Torsvik, SM Schmid… - Gondwana …, 2020 - Elsevier
The basins and orogens of the Mediterranean region ultimately result from the opening of
oceans during the early break-up of Pangea since the Triassic, and their subsequent …

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 …

Zagros orogeny: a subduction-dominated process

P Agard, J Omrani, L Jolivet, H Whitechurch… - Geological …, 2011 - cambridge.org
This paper presents a synthetic view of the geodynamic evolution of the Zagros orogen
within the frame of the Arabia–Eurasia collision. The Zagros orogen and the Iranian plateau …

Zircon U–Pb age constraints from Iran on the magmatic evolution related to Neotethyan subduction and Zagros orogeny

HY Chiu, SL Chung, MH Zarrinkoub, SS Mohammadi… - Lithos, 2013 - Elsevier
This study reports zircon LA-ICPMS U–Pb ages of 50 igneous rock samples from the
Urumieh–Dokhtar magmatic arc (UDMA) and Sanandaj–Sirjan structural zone (SSZ) in Iran …

A Paleogene extensional arc flare‐up in Iran

C Verdel, BP Wernicke, J Hassanzadeh, B Guest - Tectonics, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Arc volcanism across Iran is dominated by a Paleogene pulse, despite protracted and
presumably continuous subduction along the northern margin of the Neotethyan ocean for …

Continental collision and slab break-off: A comparison of 3-D numerical models with observations

J van Hunen, MB Allen - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2011 - Elsevier
Conditions and dynamics of subduction–collision and subsequent 3-D slab break-off and
slab tear propagation are quantified, for the first time, using fully dynamic numerical models …

Arabia–Eurasia collision and the forcing of mid-Cenozoic global cooling

MB Allen, HA Armstrong - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2008 - Elsevier
The end of the Eocene greenhouse world was the most dramatic phase in the long-term
cooling trend of the Cenozoic Era. Here we show that the Arabia–Eurasia collision and the …

Arabia-Eurasia continental collision: Insights from late Tertiary foreland-basin evolution in the Alborz Mountains, northern Iran

P Ballato, CE Uba, A Landgraf, MR Strecker… - …, 2011 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
A poorly understood lag time of 15–20 my exists between the initial Arabia-Eurasia
continental collision in late Eocene to early Oligocene time and the acceleration of tectonic …

Geochemistry and tectonics of Cenozoic volcanism in the Lesser Caucasus (Azerbaijan) and the peri-Arabian region: collision-induced mantle dynamics and its …

Y Dilek, N Imamverdiyev… - International Geology …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
The Lesser Caucasus occurs in the hinterland of the Arabia–Eurasia collision zone in the
broad Alpine–Himalayan orogenic belt and includes Cenozoic plutonic and volcanic …

[HTML][HTML] Geodynamics and metallogeny of the eastern Tethyan metallogenic domain

Z Hou, H Zhang - Ore Geology Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
The Tethyside orogen, a direct consequence of the separation of the Gondwanaland and the
accretion of Eurasia, is a huge composite orogenic system that was generated during …