Thick-skinned tectonics and basement-involved fold–thrust belts: insights from selected Cenozoic orogens

O Lacombe, N Bellahsen - Geological Magazine, 2016 - cambridge.org
Defining the structural style of fold–thrust belts and understanding the controlling factors are
necessary steps towards prediction of their long-term and short-term dynamics, including …

Structural style and timing OF NW‐SE trending zagros folds IN SW Iran: interaction with north‐south trending arabian folds and implications for petroleum geology

J Vergés, G Casini, J Ruh, J Cosgrove… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The Zagros foldbelt–foreland system in SW Iran is a prolific hydrocarbon province with
known reserves of more than 90 billion brl of oil and 800 TCF of natural gas. Establishing the …

Structural evolution of orogenic wedges: Interplay between erosion and weak décollements

L Dal Zilio, J Ruh, JP Avouac - Tectonics, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Orogenic wedges commonly display an inner wedge, where crystalline units have been
exhumed, and an outer wedge formed by imbricated sedimentary units detached from the …

Late Miocene deformation kinematics along the NW Zagros fold‐thrust belt, Kurdistan region of Iraq: Constraints from apatite (U‐Th)/He thermochronometry and …

RI Koshnaw, DF Stockli, BK Horton, A Teixell… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Apatite (U‐Th)/He (AHe) thermochronometric results are integrated with geologic
cross sections, structural relationships, and stratigraphic data to reconstruct the growth of the …

Zagros foreland fold belt timing across Lurestan to constrain Arabia–Iran collision

J Vergés, H Emami, M Garcés, E Beamud… - … in structural geology …, 2019 - Elsevier
A forward sequence of folding is interpreted in the northwest Zagros fold belt using two new
magnetostratigraphic studies to date non-marine foreland successions in the Afrineh and …

Basin inversion in tectonic wedges: Insights from analogue modelling and the Alpine-Carpathian fold-and-thrust belt

P Granado, O Ferrer, JA Muñoz, W Thöny, P Strauss - Tectonophysics, 2017 - Elsevier
This work simulates the inversion and incorporation of sub-thrust segmented half-graben
basins into tectonic wedges by means of sandbox analogue models. Segmented half …

[PDF][PDF] 先存断裂与膏盐岩发育对库车坳陷东部构造变形的影响

成亚, 吴超, 李龙江, 谢会文, 陈汉林, 魏红兴, 林秀斌… - 地质科学, 2020 - dzkx.org
先存断裂和膏盐岩发育对构造变形具有重要的控制作用. 库车坳陷东部在褶皱数量, 构造样式,
构造演化过程等方面具有较大的空间差异性, 表现出明显的构造分段性. 本文在野外地质调查 …

[HTML][HTML] 4D reconstruction of the Doldenhorn nappe-basement system in the Aar massif: Insights into late-stage continent-continent collision in the Swiss Alps

FM Piantelli, D Mair, A Berger, F Schlunegger… - Tectonophysics, 2022 - Elsevier
The inversion of passive margins and their transportation into fold-and-thrust belts is a
critical stage of mountain-building processes. In this study, we selected the Doldenhorn …

Evolution of a structural basin: numerical modelling applied to the Dehdasht Basin, Central Zagros, Iran

K Heydarzadeh, JB Ruh, J Vergés… - Journal of Asian Earth …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Dehdasht Basin, a small structural basin located in the southeast of the Dezful
Embayment in the Zagros fold-and-thrust belt, has a complex tectonic structure …

Kinematic variation within the Fars Arc, eastern Zagros, and the development of fold‐and‐thrust belt curvature

A Edey, MB Allen, F Nilfouroushan - Tectonics, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We analyze deformation of the Fars Arc in the eastern Zagros, Iran, including earthquake
slip vectors, GPS velocities, paleomagnetism data, and fold orientations, to understand how …