[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 …

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 …

Arc-magmatism and subduction history beneath the Zagros Mountains, Iran: A new report of adakites and geodynamic consequences

J Omrani, P Agard, H Whitechurch, M Benoit… - Lithos, 2008 - Elsevier
The Zagros Mountains were formed by convergence between Eurasia and Africa/Arabia.
Compared to the wealth of recent studies on the external Zagros fold and thrust belt, the …

Eocene gold ore formation at Muteh, Sanandaj-Sirjan tectonic zone, Western Iran: a result of late-stage extension and exhumation of metamorphic basement rocks …

R Moritz, F Ghazban, BS Singer - Economic geology, 2006 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
A multidisciplinary study including field geology, microstructure analysis, 40Ar/39Ar dating,
and fluid inclusion microthermometry and Raman spectrometry has been carried out on the …

[HTML][HTML] The crystalline complexes of Hamadan (Sanandaj–Sirjan zone, western Iran): metasedimentary Mesozoic sequences affected by Late Cretaceous tectono …

A Baharifar, H Moinevaziri… - Comptes …, 2004 - comptes-rendus.academie-sciences …
The Hamadan area is characterised by various metamorphic rocks where the slates yielded
Jurassic fossils. The entire column, representing the Mesozoic from at least the Jurassic to …

Slip partitioning and inclined dextral transpression along the Zagros Thrust System, Iran

K Sarkarinejad, A Azizi - Journal of Structural Geology, 2008 - Elsevier
Flexural duplex structures and shear zones are well developed in the Heneshk area, in
southwestern Iran. The Zagros Thrust System in this area consists of eight sheets of NW …

The Cimmerian evolution of the Nakhlak–Anarak area, Central Iran, and its bearing for the reconstruction of the history of the Eurasian margin

A Zanchi, S Zanchetta, E Garzanti… - Geological Society …, 2009 - lyellcollection.org
New structural, sedimentological, petrological and palaeomagnetic data collected in the
region of Nakhlak–Anarak provide important constraints on the Cimmerian evolution of …

Tectono-metamorphic evolution of the Neyriz metamorphic complex, Quri-kor-e-sefid area (Sanandaj-Sirjan Zone, SW Iran)

MR Sheikholeslami, A Pique, P Mobayen… - Journal of Asian Earth …, 2008 - Elsevier
The Neyriz region includes outcrops of metamorphic rocks that are thrust over the
Neotethyan ophiolites. These rocks are affected by a major deformational event, the result of …

Panafrican basement and Mesozoic gabbro in the Zagros orogenic belt in the Dorud–Azna region (NW Iran): laser-ablation ICP–MS zircon ages and geochemistry

F Shakerardakani, F Neubauer, F Masoudi, B Mehrabi… - Tectonophysics, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The Dorud–Azna region of the Sanandaj–Sirjan metamorphic zone (SSMZ) in NW
Iran is part of the Zagros orogenic belt and exposes an amphibolite-grade metamorphic …