Granitic record of the assembly of the Asian continent

T Wang, Y Tong, H Huang, H Zhang, L Guo, Z Li… - Earth-Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
The Asian continent consists of many continental blocks that assembled during the
Phanerozoic, accompanied by widespread granitoids. By compiling a series of digital maps …

Cenozoic porphyry and other hydrothermal ore deposits along the South Caucasus-West Iranian tectono-magmatic belt: a critical reappraisal of the controlling factors

A Rabiee, F Rossetti, F Lucci, M Lustrino - Lithos, 2022 - Elsevier
In this contribution, we investigate the space and time distribution of the Cenozoic
magmatism and the associated porphyry Cu-Mo±Au and other hydrothermal (mostly …

Jurassic igneous rocks of the central Sanandaj–Sirjan zone (Iran) mark a propagating continental rift, not a magmatic arc

H Azizi, RJ Stern - Terra Nova, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Jurassic igneous bodies of the Sanandaj–Sirjan zone (SaSZ) in SW Iran are generally
considered as a magmatic arc but critical evaluation of modern geochronology …

[HTML][HTML] On the nature of the Cimmerian Continent

AMC Şengör, D Altıner, C Zabcı, G Sunal, N Lom… - Earth-Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Cimmerian Continent is the narrow continental strip that rifted from the
northeastern Gondwana-Land margin mostly during the Permian between the present-day …

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 …

New evidence for Jurassic continental rifting in the northern Sanandaj Sirjan Zone, western Iran: the Ghalaylan seamount, southwest Ghorveh

H Azizi, F Nouri, RJ Stern, M Azizi, F Lucci… - International Geology …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
We address the growing controversy about the tectonic setting in which Jurassic magmatism
of Iran occurred: arc or continental rift. In the Ghorveh area of the northern Sanandaj Sirjan …

Shear-wave velocity structure of upper mantle along the Zagros collision zone

N Mohammadi, H Rahimi, A Gholami, S Pachhai… - Tectonophysics, 2022 - Elsevier
The lithosphere beneath the Zagros and central Iran has sustained long-lasting Neo-
Tethyan subduction and subsequent collisional orogenesis, leading to the complicated …

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 …

Two plutonic complexes of the Sanandaj-Sirjan magmatic-metamorphic belt record Jurassic to Early Cretaceous subduction of an old Neotethys beneath the Iran …

TN Yang, JL Chen, MJ Liang, D Xin, M Aghazadeh… - Gondwana …, 2018 - Elsevier
The Neotethyan tectonics of the Zagros orogenic belt, SW Iran remains still hotly debated in
comparing with its western counterparts. One major issue concerns the timing and nature of …

The Eastern Khoy metamorphic complex of NW Iran: a Jurassic ophiolite or continuation of the Sanandaj–Sirjan Zone?

HS Moghadam, F Corfu, RJ Stern… - Journal of the …, 2019 - lyellcollection.org
The Khoy complex in NW Iran has been widely regarded to consist of both Jurassic and
Cretaceous ophiolites, but whereas the western Late Cretaceous ophiolite is unequivocal …