Variation of subsidence in the Dezful Embayment, SW Iran: influence of reactivated basement structures

E Farahzadi, SA Alavi, S Sherkati… - Arabian Journal of …, 2019 - Springer
Subsidence analyses over the past 140 Ma in 15 wells in the Dezful Embayment, which is
the main oil-producing area in the Zagros fold and thrust belt, SW Iran, have significantly …

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 …

Early Neogene foreland of the Zagros, implications for the initial closure of the Neo-Tethys and kinematics of crustal shortening

M Pirouz, JP Avouac, J Hassanzadeh… - Earth and Planetary …, 2017 - Elsevier
We study the transition from passive margin to foreland basin sedimentation now exposed in
the High Zagros belt to provide chronological constraints on the initial stage of Arabia …

Crustal and uppermost mantle shear wave velocity structure beneath the Middle East from surface wave tomography

A Kaviani, A Paul, A Moradi, PM Mai… - Geophysical Journal …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We have constructed a 3-D shear wave velocity (Vs) model for the crust and uppermost
mantle beneath the Middle East using Rayleigh wave records obtained from ambient-noise …

Diachronous initiation of Arabia–Eurasia collision from eastern Anatolia to the southeastern Zagros Mountains since middle Eocene time

MH Darin, PJ Umhoefer - International Geology Review, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The persistent debate over the timing of initial Arabia–Eurasia collision has eluded
consensus for decades, with most estimates ranging widely from~ 50 to 10 Ma along both …

Evidence for an early-MORB to fore-arc evolution within the Zagros suture zone: Constraints from zircon U-Pb geochronology and geochemistry of the Neyriz ophiolite …

I Monsef, R Monsef, J Mata, Z Zhang, M Pirouz… - Gondwana …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Late Cretaceous Neyriz ophiolite, as a part of the Outer Zagros Ophiolitic Belt,
represents a remnant of the southern Neo-Tethyan oceanic lithosphere exposed along the …

Folding style of the Dezful Embayment of Zagros Belt: Signatures of detachment horizons, deep-rooted faulting and syn-deformation deposition

B Derikvand, SA Alavi, IA Fard, H Hajialibeigi - Marine and Petroleum …, 2018 - Elsevier
Defining the governing factors on the geometry of the Dezful Embayment folds, a major oil
province in the Zagros Fold-Thrust Belt in SW Iran, reduces the risks inherent in hydrocarbon …

Folding, thrusting and diapirism: Competing mechanisms for shaping the structure of the north Dezful Embayment, Zagros, Iran

M Najafi, J Vergés, N Etemad‐Saeed… - Basin Research, 2018 - earthdoc.org
Differentiating compressional growth strata from halokinetic sequences is not straightforward
in foreland fold‐and‐thrust belts where compressional and diapiric processes were coeval …

Collision along irregular plate margin controlled the tectono-stratigraphic evolution of the Iranian Zagros fold and thrust belt

M Alipour - Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2023 - Elsevier
The Zagros fold and thrust belt (ZFTB) of Iran, aside from economic significance, is a natural
laboratory that holds valuable information about kinematics of Arabia-Eurasia …

Timing of Arabia-Eurasia collision: Constraints from restoration of crustal-scale cross-sections

H Su, J Zhou - Journal of Structural Geology, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The timing of Arabia-Eurasia collision is crucial to the understanding of evolution of
the Zagros orogen as well as the Himalaya-Tibet orogeny, but it remains an issue of …