The Miocene-to-present kinematic evolution of the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East and its implications for dynamics

X Le Pichon, C Kreemer - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary …, 2010 - annualreviews.org
The present kinematics in the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East is now well
constrained by GPS measurements and dominated by a circular counterclockwise motion …

Zagros orogeny: a subduction-dominated process

P Agard, J Omrani, L Jolivet, H Whitechurch… - Geological …, 2011 - cambridge.org
This paper presents a synthetic view of the geodynamic evolution of the Zagros orogen
within the frame of the Arabia–Eurasia collision. The Zagros orogen and the Iranian plateau …

Arabia-Eurasia continental collision: Insights from late Tertiary foreland-basin evolution in the Alborz Mountains, northern Iran

P Ballato, CE Uba, A Landgraf, MR Strecker… - …, 2011 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
A poorly understood lag time of 15–20 my exists between the initial Arabia-Eurasia
continental collision in late Eocene to early Oligocene time and the acceleration of tectonic …

An up-to-date crustal deformation map of Iran using integrated campaign-mode and permanent GPS velocities

F Khorrami, P Vernant, F Masson… - Geophysical Journal …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We present the most extensive and up-to-date unified GPS velocity field for Iran. We
processed the data collected during 10 yr (2006–2015) from the Iranian Permanent GNSS …

Structural evolution of the Kopeh Dagh fold-and-thrust belt (NE Iran) and interactions with the South Caspian Sea Basin and Amu Darya Basin

AMM Robert, J Letouzey, MA Kavoosi… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2014 - Elsevier
We present a detailed stratigraphic and structural study of the Kopeh Dagh fold-and-thrust
belt in NE Iran, which is an investigation of the complex polyphased tectonic history of this …

High‐resolution lithospheric structure of the Zagros collision zone and Iranian Plateau

MA Irandoust, K Priestley… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
From a joint analysis of fundamental mode Rayleigh wave group velocities and P‐wave
receiver functions, we derive a new, high‐resolution 3D shear‐wave velocity (Vs) model for …

NW Iran-eastern Turkey present-day kinematics: results from the Iranian permanent GPS network

Y Djamour, P Vernant, HR Nankali… - Earth and Planetary …, 2011 - Elsevier
A network of continuous GPS stations has been installed in NW Iran since 2005 to
complement the survey GPS network already existing in the region. We present the 1999 …

Large-scale velocity field and strain tensor in Iran inferred from GPS measurements: new insight for the present-day deformation pattern within NE Iran

F Masson, M Anvari, Y Djamour… - Geophysical Journal …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
A network of 26 GPS sites was implemented in Iran and Northern Oman to measure
displacements in this part of the Arabia-Eurasia collision zone. We present the GPS velocity …

Accelerated middle Miocene exhumation of the Talesh Mountains constrained by U‐Th/He thermochronometry: Evidence for the Arabia‐Eurasia collision in the NW …

S Madanipour, TA Ehlers, A Yassaghi… - Tectonics, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Talesh Mountains at the NW margin of the Iranian Plateau curve around the
southwestern corner of the South Caspian Block and developed in response to the collision …

Crustal stress map of Iran: insight from seismic and geodetic computations

Z Zarifi, F Nilfouroushan, M Raeesi - Pure and Applied Geophysics, 2014 - Springer
We used the focal mechanisms of crustal earthquakes (depth< 40 km) in the period 1909–
2012 and the available GPS velocities, derived from the data collected between 1999 to …