[HTML][HTML] Tectonic, magmatic, and metallogenic evolution of the Tethyan orogen: From subduction to collision

JP Richards - Ore Geology Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper reviews the tectonic, magmatic, and metallogenic history of the Tethyan orogen
from the Carpathians to Indochina. Focus is placed on the formation of porphyry Cu±Mo±Au …

Building the Zagros collisional orogen: timing, strain distribution and the dynamics of Arabia/Eurasia plate convergence

F Mouthereau, O Lacombe, J Vergés - Tectonophysics, 2012 - Elsevier
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 …

Zircon U–Pb age constraints from Iran on the magmatic evolution related to Neotethyan subduction and Zagros orogeny

HY Chiu, SL Chung, MH Zarrinkoub, SS Mohammadi… - Lithos, 2013 - Elsevier
This study reports zircon LA-ICPMS U–Pb ages of 50 igneous rock samples from the
Urumieh–Dokhtar magmatic arc (UDMA) and Sanandaj–Sirjan structural zone (SSZ) in Iran …

Retrodeforming the Arabia-Eurasia collision zone: Age of collision versus magnitude of continental subduction

N McQuarrie, DJJ van Hinsbergen - Geology, 2013 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Arabia-Eurasia collision has been linked to global cooling, the slowing of
Africa, Mediterranean extension, the rifting of the Red Sea, an increase in exhumation and …

The geodynamic evolution of Iran

RJ Stern, HS Moghadam, M Pirouz… - Annual Review of Earth …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
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 …

Granitic record of the assembly of the Asian continent

T Wang, Y Tong, H Huang, H Zhang, L Guo, Z Li… - Earth-Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
The Asian continent consists of many continental blocks that assembled during the
Phanerozoic, accompanied by widespread granitoids. By compiling a series of digital maps …

Thick-skinned tectonics and basement-involved fold–thrust belts: insights from selected Cenozoic orogens

O Lacombe, N Bellahsen - Geological Magazine, 2016 - cambridge.org
Defining the structural style of fold–thrust belts and understanding the controlling factors are
necessary steps towards prediction of their long-term and short-term dynamics, including …

[HTML][HTML] Geodynamics and metallogeny of the eastern Tethyan metallogenic domain

Z Hou, H Zhang - Ore Geology Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
The Tethyside orogen, a direct consequence of the separation of the Gondwanaland and the
accretion of Eurasia, is a huge composite orogenic system that was generated during …

Comparisons of the kinematics and deep structures of the Zagros and Himalaya and of the Iranian and Tibetan plateaus and geodynamic implications

D Hatzfeld, P Molnar - Reviews of Geophysics, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Eocene–Oligocene post-collisional magmatism in the Lut–Sistan region, eastern Iran: Magma genesis and tectonic implications

KN Pang, SL Chung, MH Zarrinkoub, MM Khatib… - Lithos, 2013 - Elsevier
Abstract New 40 Ar/39 Ar, geochemical and Srsingle bond Nd isotopic analyses of Eocene–
Oligocene magmatic rocks in the Lut–Sistan region, eastern Iran shed light on their origin …