The Mawat ophiolite complex (MOC) is a part of the Zagros Suture Zone, which extends about 2000 km from southeastern Turkey through northern Syria and Iraq to western southern Iran. serpentinite rocks are exposed at Waras area near Betwat village. Serpentinite this have been studied assess their suitability for use as dimension stone. Ten samples were collected in establish physical mechanical ...

introduction the area studied is located north of azna (lorestan province) in a small portion of the sanandaj – sirjan structural zone (mohajjel et al., 2003).this area is part of the zagros orogenic belt, formed by the opening and closure of neotethyan ocean. from ne to sw, it consists of three parallel tectonic regions: the orumieh-dokhtar magmatic belt, the sanandaj-sirjan structural zone an...

Paleocene and  Lower Eocene deposits in SW Iran are known as Pabdeh formation.Pabdeh formation is one of the most important lithostratigraphy unit as source rock has been deposited in Zagros basin over an extremely long period in time. The area under research is the Ghachsaran 55 subsurface Section located  from the Ghachsaran oil field in Dezful embeyment in zagros fold zone. The Lower boundry...

energy-based optimized design of polymer fiber-reinforced tunnel lining mohammad safi                   analysis of underwater tunnels considering strain-softening behavior in plastic zone ahmad fahimifar; hamed ghadami; masoud ahmadvand; arvin abdolmaleki                                 the effect of operational parameters on penetration rate of a tbm using artificial neural networks- a case s...

asmari formation was deposited in the foreland zagros basin (southwest iran). in this research, biostratigraphy related to the asmari formation in north of khorram abad, robat namaki section, is discussed. in the studied stratigraphic section, the asmari formation overlies the shahbazan formation and underlies gachsaran formation and consists of cream to gray medium to thick limestone and marl....

Determining the limits of species is still a major area contention, particularly when diagnostic differentiating characters are subtle and there contradiction between morphological genetic data. The lesser whitethroat (LWT) complex Curruca curruca represents an interesting study system to address this issue. Here, we use phylogeny-, admixture- principal component analysis- (PCA-) based analyses...