Orogenic plateau growth: Expansion of the Turkish-Iranian Plateau across the Zagros fold-and-thrust belt

Tectonics

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 171-190

  Allen, M B ^a   Saville, C ^a   Blanc, E J P ^b   Talebian, M ^c   Nissen, E ^d  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b STATOIL   (Norway)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF IRAN   (Iran)

^d Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

collision; plateau; tectonics; Zagros

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS;

COLLISION; ELEVATION CONTOURS; FOLD-AND-THRUST BELTS; PLATEAU; TOPOGRAPHIC GRADIENTS; UNIFORM STRUCTURE; ZAGROS; ZAGROS FOLD-AND-THRUST BELTS;

TECTONICS;

ARABIAN PLATE; BEDROCK; COLLISION ZONE; DEFORMATION; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; OROGENY; SEISMICITY; TECTONIC STRUCTURE; THRUST;

CHINA; IRANIAN PLATEAU; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; TURKEY; ZAGROS;

EID: 84878349435     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: 19449194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/tect.20025     Document Type: Article

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