Cenozoic post-collisional brittle tectonic history and stress reorientation in the High Zagros Belt (Iran, Fars Province)

Tectonophysics

Volumn 432, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 101-131

  Navabpour, Payman ^a,b   Angelier, Jacques ^b   Barrier, Eric ^c  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF IRAN   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Brittle tectonics; Cenozoic collision; Fold and thrust belt; Iran; Paleostress; Zagros

Indexed keywords

BRITTLE DEFORMATION; COLLISION ZONE; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; FAULTING; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; FOLDING; MIOCENE; OLIGOCENE; PLATE CONVERGENCE; STRESS FIELD; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION; TECTONIC ROTATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; FARS; IRAN; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 33846873908     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2006.12.007     Document Type: Article

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