deformation pattern of the northeastern part of the iranian-arabian collision zone (i.e., mainly sanandaj-sirjan belt or zone) is the main concern of this paper. here, we investigate the stress distribution and displacement pattern of eghlid-deh bid area as affected by the position of zagros suture using a three dimensional mechanical model. the modeled area is located between the zagros thrust...

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The relative motions of tectonic plates are well established, but the motion of the underlying mantle is poorly known. Silver and Holt (p. 1054) determined the motion of the mantle beneath western North America by combining observations of surface deformation with uppermantle seismic-velocity anisotropy. The upper mantle is flowing to the east, opposite the westward motion of the North American...

The Soltan Dam on the river Soltan, a branch of Tine River, is located about 19 km of Mateur city in the northeast of Tunisia. The dam is now under Study and will be constructed in 2017. The Soltan Dam has been designed as an earth fill dam with homogeneous materials. The dam and its associated concrete structures are mainly founded on marl, shale and shale of Lower Miocene age, sandstone of th...

Integrated field data, microstructural and three-dimensional strain analyses are used to document coaxial N-S shortening and southward increase in deformation intensity and metamorphism at the Jiaochang structure. Two episodes of deformation (D1,D2) with localized post-D2 deformation have been identified in the area. The first deformation (D1) episode is defined by a main axial-plane of paralle...

The increasing fleet of VHR optical satellites (e.g. Pléiades, Spot 6/7, WorldView-3) offers new opportunities for the monitoring of surface deformation resulting from gravitational (e.g. glaciers, landslides) or tectonic forces (coseismic slip). Image correlation techniques have been developed and successfully employed in many geoscientific studies to quantify horizontal surface deformation at...