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

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 106-131

  Ballato, Paolo ^a   Uba, Cornelius E ^a   Landgraf, Angela ^a   Strecker, Manfred R ^a   Sudo, Masafumi ^a   Stockli, Daniel F ^b   Friedrich, Anke ^c   Tabatabaei, Saeid H ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d BUILDING AND HOUSING RESEARCH CENTER   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARC MAGMATISM; BASIN EVOLUTION; COLLISION PROCESS; COLLISION ZONE; CONTINENTAL COLLISIONS; EARLY MIOCENE; EARLY OLIGOCENE; EARLY-TO-LATE; EURASIA; FORELAND BASIN; LAG-TIME; LATE EOCENE; LATE TERTIARY; LOW RATES; MARINE EVAPORITES; MIOCENE; PLIOCENE; SEDIMENT ACCUMULATION; SEDIMENT PROVENANCE; SEDIMENTARY PROCESS; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TECTONIC LOADING; TERRESTRIAL SEDIMENTS; TWO STAGE; VOLCANICLASTICS;

EROSION; LANDFORMS; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEDIMENTS; SPHERES; TECTONICS;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

ARABIAN PLATE; BASIN EVOLUTION; COLLISION ZONE; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EOCENE-OLIGOCENE BOUNDARY; EURASIAN PLATE; FORELAND BASIN; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MIOCENE; OROGENY; PLIOCENE; PROVENANCE; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SUBDUCTION; TERTIARY;

ELBURZ; IRAN;

EID: 79251522507     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B30091.1     Document Type: Article

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