[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 …

Origin, accretion, and reworking of continents

R Zhu, G Zhao, W Xiao, L Chen… - Reviews of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The continental crust is unique to the Earth in the solar system, and controversies remain
regarding its origin, accretion and reworking of continents. The plate tectonics theory has …

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 …

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 …

High Sr/Y magmas reflect arc maturity, high magmatic water content, and porphyry Cu±Mo±Au potential: Examples from the Tethyan arcs of central and eastern Iran …

JP Richards, T Spell, E Rameh… - Economic …, 2012 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The temporal and geochemical evolution of arc magmatism that culminated in porphyry
Cu±Mo±Au deposit formation has been studied in three separate Neo-Tethyan arc systems …

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 …

A Paleogene extensional arc flare‐up in Iran

C Verdel, BP Wernicke, J Hassanzadeh, B Guest - Tectonics, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Arc volcanism across Iran is dominated by a Paleogene pulse, despite protracted and
presumably continuous subduction along the northern margin of the Neotethyan ocean for …

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 …

Continental collision and slab break-off: A comparison of 3-D numerical models with observations

J van Hunen, MB Allen - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2011 - Elsevier
Conditions and dynamics of subduction–collision and subsequent 3-D slab break-off and
slab tear propagation are quantified, for the first time, using fully dynamic numerical models …

[HTML][HTML] Temporal–spatial distribution and tectonic setting of porphyry copper deposits in Iran: constraints from zircon U–Pb and molybdenite Re–Os geochronology

M Aghazadeh, Z Hou, Z Badrzadeh, L Zhou - Ore geology reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
Porphyry copper deposits (PCDs) in Iran are dominantly distributed in Arasbaran (NW Iran),
the middle segment of the Urumieh–Dokhtar Magmatic Arc (UDMA), and Kerman (central SE …