Caucasus collisional history: Review of data from East Anatolia to West Iran

Y Rolland - Gondwana Research, 2017 - Elsevier
This article summarizes the geodynamic evolution of the Caucasus mountain belt from the
Paleozoic to Present based on a review of works from Eastern Anatolia, Greater and Lesser …

Environmental and geodynamic settings of the earliest hominin migration to the Arabian-Caucasus region: A review

VG Trifonov, AS Tesakov, AN Simakova… - Quaternary …, 2019 - Elsevier
Majority of researchers consider the Arabian-Caucasus region as a corridor for migration of
earliest hominins from their African motherland to Eurasia. The paper is devoted to …

Aspects of the seismotectonics of Armenia: New data and reanalysis

A Karakhanyan, A Arakelyan, A Avagyan, T Sadoyan - 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
ABSTRACT A brief history of seismotectonic studies in Armenia, especially after the 1988
Spitak earthquake, and new information on the active faults shed light on several key issues …

Active transpressional tectonics in the Andean forearc of southern Peru quantified by 10Be surface exposure dating of an active fault scarp

C Benavente, S Zerathe, L Audin, SR Hall, X Robert… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Our understanding of the style and rate of Quaternary tectonic deformation in the forearc of
the Central Andes is hampered by a lack of field observations and constraints on …

The Upper Pliocene–Quaternary geological history of the Shirak Basin (NE Turkey and NW Armenia) and estimation of the Quaternary uplift of Lesser Caucasus

VG Trifonov, AN Simakova, H Ҫelik, AS Tesakov… - Quaternary …, 2020 - Elsevier
Stratigraphy, structure, and tectonics of the Turkish part of the intermontane Shirak Basin
and the adjacent Susuz Basin were studied based on methods of structural geology …

Cosmogenic 3He in terrestrial rocks: A review

PH Blard - Chemical Geology, 2021 - Elsevier
This review article summarizes the state of the art of cosmogenic 3 He (3 He c), with a focus
on the most efficient methods and strategies for measuring this cosmogenic noble gas in the …

Global plate motions and earthquake cycle effects

SE Graham, JP Loveless… - Geochemistry, Geophysics …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The rotations of tectonic plates provide a partial description of the total observed
displacements at the Earth's surface. The estimated number of kinematically distinct plates …

Insights into earthquake-induced tsunamis in the Caucasus' largest Lake Sevan

S Avagyan, D Arakelyan, G Alaverdyan… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
By leveraging the Okada model, the study makes the first-ever attempt to examine
earthquake-induced tsunamis in Lake Sevan, related to the activation of underwater …

Landscape evolution in orogenic plateaus: Insights from quantitative morphotectonic analysis of the Turkish–Iranian Plateau and Caucasus regions

A Kaveh‐Firouz, JP Burg… - Earth Surface Processes …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
To investigate the recent landscape evolution of the orogenic Turkish–Iranian Plateau (TIP)
and the Lesser/Greater Caucasus ranges, we perform a quantitative analysis of topography …

Quaternary geology and origin of the Shirak Basin, NW Armenia

EA Shalaeva, VG Trifonov, VA Lebedev… - Quaternary …, 2019 - Elsevier
Methods A suite of methods was used to study the geology of the Shirak Basin. They are as
follows: description of sedimentary sections, geomorphological study, analysis of remanent …