The Zagros Mountains are the result of the Arabia/Eurasia collision initiated at~ 35Ma as the
rifted Arabian lithosphere was underthrusted beneath the Iranian plate due to its negative …

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 Zagros orogen provides a unique opportunity within the Alpine system to evaluate the
interplay between a young Tertiary collision and earlier subduction/obduction processes …

The Zagros fold-thrust belt in Iran forms the external part of the Zagros active orogenic
wedge. It includes a sequence of heterogeneous latest Neoproterozoic–Phanerozoic …

Water plays a critical role in erosion and sediment transport and this relationship is most
evident in the hyperarid Atacama Desert of Northern Chile, a region characterized by …

Balanced cross-sections across the Zagros fold–thrust belt in Iran are used to analyze the
geometry of deformation within the sedimentary cover rocks, and to test the hypothesis of …

The mechanisms of formation and disruption of supercontinents have been topics of debate.
Based on the Y-shaped topology, we identify two major types of subduction zones on the …

We compare the geologic histories, the deep structures, and the present‐day kinematics of
deformation of the Himalaya and the adjacent Tibetan Plateau with those of the Zagros and …

More than 2000 instrumentally recorded earthquakes occurring in the Iran region during the
period 1918–2004 have been relocated and reassessed, with special attention to focal …

From a joint analysis of fundamental mode Rayleigh wave group velocities and P‐wave
receiver functions, we derive a new, high‐resolution 3D shear‐wave velocity (Vs) model for …