Subduction initiation (SI) requires the sinking of one plate beneath another and this exerts
extensional stress on the overlying plate. How broad a region is affected by SI-related …

How new subduction zones form is an ongoing scientific question with key implications for
our understanding of how this process influences the behavior of the overriding plate. Here …

The lower Miocene marine units of NW Iran (Hamedan–Miandoab area) were studied to
establish a high-resolution biostratigraphy framework in the context of European standard …

Facies architecture and benthic foraminiferal biostratigraphy were interpreted to reconstruct
the depositional environments of the Upper Campanian–Maastrichtian Qahlah and Simsima …

The nature of the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K/Pg) boundary in the Kurdistan region of
northeastern Iraq is still under debate. Most studies have considered the Danian sediments …

High Na-to K-alkaline magmatism is common in the rear-arc region of the Cenozoic Urumieh-
Dokhtar Magmatic Belt of Iran, but their geochemical signatures, as well as their formation …

In the research on the economic loss of the carrying capacity of the tourism industry caused
by flood disasters, some domestic and foreign scholars have conducted many years of …

Well-preserved and abundant planktonic foraminifera have been recovered from limestones
of the Cretaceous oceanic red beds (CORBs) from the Yongla section in Gyangze, southern …

With the growth and advancement of the times, people have more and more means of
obtaining knowledge. In order to further increase the efficiency of information transmission …

Abstract The Berda Formation corresponds to an inner-shelf stratigraphic equivalent of the
Campanian-Maastrichtian outer-shelf Abiod Formation of Tunisia. The present work aims to …