Abstract Rodent biogeographic studies are disproportionately scarce in Iran, however, they an ideal system to understand drivers of biodiversity distributions the country. The aims present research determine (i) pattern rodent richness across country, (ii) quantify their elevational distribution patterns, and (iii) explore underlying mechanisms. To reach these goals, updated species list was co...

This study provides a multi-disciplinary overview of the seismology and geodetic data with tectonics analysis in order to provide an evaluation stress trajectories, probabilistic fault rupture hazard assessment. Based on different scenarios obtained from comparison several overviews their interpretation, we investigated kinematics active structural zones. In this study, magnitudes directions se...

The Kopet Dagh mountains in NE Iran exhibit a 7-km-thick continuous sedimentary sequence recording detritus from exposed surrounding terranes the last 175 Ma. This work presents multi-disciplinary geochronologic and provenance analysis an attempt to identify date major geologic events along northern segment of Tethys reconstruct regional tectonic history Gondwana-related rifting until Alpine or...

A new species of Dysdera Latreille, 1804 is described from the South-Western Kopet Dagh, Turkmenistan, on basis both sexes. The compared to its closest congener kronebergi Dunin, 1992, and tentatively assigned D. asiatica species-group.

using global free air gravity and topography data, first we have calculated a bouguer anomaly (ba) map for iranian plateau and then computed the residual isostasy anomaly map under the airy-heiskannen assumption. the term residual is used as to reflect the assumption of local isostatic compensation in contrast to a regional isostatic compensation. the value with which the gravity effect of the ...