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 …

The North Sistan orogen (Eastern Iran): Tectono-metamorphic evolution and significance within the Tethyan realm

M Jentzer, P Agard, G Bonnet, P Monié, M Fournier… - Gondwana …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Sistan orogen (Eastern Iran) separates the Afghan and Lut continental blocks
and stretches along∼ 700 km from north to south, at a high angle with respect to other …

The Middle Jurassic Cheshmeh-Ghasaban High-Mg gabbro (Hamedan, NW Iran): A plume-influenced intracontinental rifting event?

F Lucci, M Miri, A Saki, JC White, G Della Ventura… - Geochemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
The Jurassic mafic to felsic magmatism affecting the older Ediacaran-to-Cambrian basement
of the Sanandaj-Sirjan Zone of Iran has been traditionally interpreted as the product of arc …

New evidence for Late Cretaceous plume-related seamounts in the Middle East sector of the Neo-Tethys: Constraints from geochemistry, petrology, and mineral …

E Barbero, F Zaccarini, M Delavari, A Dolati, E Saccani… - Lithos, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Durkan Complex in the Makran Accretionary Prism (SE Iran) has been
interpreted either as a continental margin succession or a Late Cretaceous tectonically …

Gold and sulfide-bearing listvenite in the mantle section of the Tays ophiolite in the Arabian Shield, Saudi Arabia

F Alshehri, MK Azer, PD Asimow, BA Abuamarah - Geochemistry, 2024 - Elsevier
The mantle section of the Late Neoproterozoic Tays ophiolite in the Arabian Shield consists
principally of thoroughly serpentinized peridotite with characteristics typical of depleted …

A resource for automated search and collation of geochemical datasets from journal supplements

EL Martin, VR Barrote, PA Cawood - Scientific Data, 2022 - nature.com
This article presents a resource for automated search, extraction and collation of
geochemical and geochronological data from the Figshare repository using web scraping …

[HTML][HTML] The western Durkan Complex (Makran Accretionary Prism, SE Iran): A Late Cretaceous tectonically disrupted seamounts chain and its role in controlling …

E Barbero, L Pandolfi, M Delavari, A Dolati… - Geoscience …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Durkan Complex is a key tectonic element of the Makran accretionary prism
(SE Iran) and it has been interpreted as representing a continental margin succession. We …

Unravelling metamorphic ages of suture zone rocks from the Sabzevar and Makran areas (Iran): Robust age constraints for the larger Arabia–Eurasian collision zone

M Bröcker, H Omrani, J Berndt… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In this study we establish a time frame for metamorphic processes affecting Neotethyan
suture zones at the northern (Sabzevar) and southern (Makran) margin of the Central Iranian …

[HTML][HTML] Geochemistry of volcanic rocks and dykes from the Remeshk-Mokhtarabad and Fannuj-Maskutan Ophiolites (Makran Accretionary Prism, SE Iran): new …

E Saccani, M Delavari, A Dolati, L Pandolfi… - Geosystems and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Remeshk-Mokhtarabad and Fannuj-Maskutan ophiolites represent two major
ophiolitic units in the North Makran Domain (Makran Accretionary Prism). Volcanic rocks and …

The Bajgan Complex revealed as a Cretaceous ophiolite-bearing subduction complex: A key to unravel the geodynamics of Makran (southeast Iran)

L Pandolfi, E Barbero, M Marroni, M Delavari… - Journal of Asian Earth …, 2021 - Elsevier
In the Makran area, a wide accretionary wedge is originated by the north-dipping subduction
of the Neo-Tethyan oceanic lithosphere. The rear of the accretionary wedge is represented …