The Upper Cretaceous carbonates along the Zagros thrust-fold belt “Harir-Safin anticlines” experienced extensive hot brine fluids that produced several phases of hydrothermal cements, including saddle dolomites. Detailed fluid inclusion microthermometry data show dolomites precipitated from (83–160 °C) and saline (up to 25 eq. wt.% NaCl; i.e., seven times higher than seawater salinity). interac...

The Mesopotamian Plain is part of the Mesopotamia which extends for vast area bigger than plain. plain almost flat and lowland, has clearly defined physiographic boundaries with other surrounding provinces. a huge accumulation geomorphologic unit, where fluvial, lacustrine, Aeolian landforms prevail; fluvial units being abundant among others. However, estuarine marine forms also are developed, ...

amplitudes of seismic waves decrease with distance according to anelastic properties of the earth and geometrical spreading. the attenuation of ground-motion amplitudes in the frequency domain is an important problem in engineering seismology. it is of particular practical interest in the regions such as zagros (iran). the zagros fold- thrust belt, as a part of alpine- himalayan orogenic belt i...

Newly dated Tertiary strata in the Bolivian central Andean plateau and synthesis of the Tertiary record in the adjacent Subandean fold-thrust belt constrain the age of deformation in both regions. Age of deformation within the plateau is determined by dated crosscutting relations associated with a regionally extensive high-level surface known as the San Juan del Oro surface. New Ar-Ar dates on ...

The present study focused on redescription of Gammarus pseudosyriacus (Karaman & Pinkster, 1977) based on new materials from Zagros Mountains and describes a new subspecies of freshwater amphipod, Gammarus pseudosyriacus issatisi subsp. n., from the southern Zagros Mountains. The work is based on morphological and morphometric comparisons. This new subspecies has features similar to Gammarus ps...

Abstract New trace-element, radiogenic Sr-Nd-Pb isotopic and geochronological data from Middle-Late Cretaceous Zagros ophiolites of Iran give new insights into the tectono-magmatic history these supra-subduction zone (SSZ)-type ophiolites. The distribution SSZ-type in comprises two parallel belts: (1) outer ophiolitic belt (2) inner belt. These were generated by seafloor spreading what became f...

Abstract Hormuz salt formation is considered the origin of evaporated deposits in Zagros and its ductile behavior has been known as reason for inhomogeneous deformation Zagros. However, our knowledge about this limited to domes on surface. In study, local earthquakes recorded by a temporary dense seismological network 17 stations, deployed southern margin Simply Folded Belt (SFB) southwestern I...