Fakhraddin A Kadirov

Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Ministry of Science and Education, Republic Azerbaijan · “Modern Geodynamics and Space Geodesy"

Hypothesized feedbacks between climate and tectonics are mediated by the relationship between topography and long-term erosion rates. While many studies show monotonic relationships between channel steepness and erosion rates, the degree of nonlinearity in this relationship varies by landscape. Mechanistically explaining controls on this relationsh...

The potential for large, shallow earthquakes and their associated seismic hazard in the eastern Caucasus, an area of dense population and sensitive industrial infrastructure, remains speculative based on historical precedent and current geologic and seismologic observations. Here we present updated and expanded results from a GPS network between th...

We Present a GPS-derived velocity field 1988-2005 for the zone of interaction of the Arabian African Nubian and Somalian and Eurasian plates The Velocity field indicates counterclockwise motion of a broad area of the Earth s surface that includes the Arabian plate adjacent parts of the Zagros and Central Iran Turkey and the Aegean at rates in the r...

The evolution of the oil and gas industry in Azerbaijan has been associated with the emergence of distinguished statesmen and outstanding professionals in the field of science and education. These specialists have made a substantial contribution to the technological development of Russia and the USSR, including its oil and gas sector. This article...

The Iranian lithospheric plate, a key player at the boundary between Eurasia and Gondwana, holds significant implications in the tectonic-geodynamic context. Undoubtedly, it significantly influenced the formation of the South Caspian Basin (SCB) and the Mesozoic terrane belt (MTB). The Eurasia – Gondwana boundary divides the western part – the Aege...

The South Caspian Basin, Lower and Middle Kura Basins, onshore Azerbaijan, and Georgia Upper Kura Basin are a genetically linked basin system created in a Mesozoic extensional setting with a complex Cenozoic sediment fill history. Delineating these basins shed new light on understanding the complex geodynamic history of the region between the Black...

We present GPS observations of crustal deformation monitoring in Azerbaijan and adjacent territory which carried out since 1998. Unlike our previous studies there are more permanent GPS station and survey mode data aggregated, which accordingly allowed us more accurately determine the dynamics of the main tectonic structures. Eight permanent statio...

A number of our previous studies substantiated the discovery of the phenomenon of a deep mantle structure rotating counterclockwise (Eppelbaum et al., 2021, 2023b, 2024), influencing tectonics and various geological-environmental processes in the South Caucasus and the Eastern Mediterranean. This study made it possible to estimate the onset of the...

Our previous studies substantiated the discovery of the phenomenon of a sub-oval deep mantle structure rotating counterclockwise (e.g., Eppelbaum et al., 2021), influencing tectonics and various geological and environmental processes in the Eastern Mediterranean and the South Caucasus (Eppelbaum et al., 2024). The region under consideration is esse...

The decreasing sea level of the Caspian Sea is having a serious impact on coastal ecosystems and biodiversity. This study, conducted over a decade from 2014 to 2023, provides a comprehensive analysis of the coastal transformations in the Gizil-Aghaj State Reserve, Azerbaijan, using remote sensing technologies. By utilizing a combination of optical...

In this study, the Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) method was employed for the first time to examine the correlation between moderate earthquakes and the dynamics of volcanoes in Azerbaijan. InSAR is a powerful technique for explaining the complexities of earthquakes in spatial times, providing more detailed insights into earthquak...

The latest catastrophic earthquakes in eastern Turkey require their geodynamic understanding. The two most decisive events (with magnitude (M) = 7.8 and 7.7) were registered with an interval of 9 hours on February 06, 2023, followed by a whole series of aftershocks (four with M ≥6, about twenty-five with M ≥5 and above, and more than two hundred wi...

Dərs vəsaiti Yer Fizikasının əsaslarını öyrənmək üçün nəzərdə tutulmuşdur. Kitabda qısa şəkildə Yer Fizikasının əsas fundamental anlayışları, Günəş sistemi qanunauyğunluqları, seysmologiya və dərinlik quruluşu, Yerin fiziki sahələrinin xüsusiyyətləri və geodinamik proseslər şərh edilir. Nəşrin hazırlanmasında müəllif- lərin Bakı Dövlət Universiteti...

Earth’s surface gravity measurements are essential (as close to the investigation targets) but insufficient. These measurements were carried out at different years, with various scales and accuracy and numerous white spots. The present epoch makes it possible to utilize various satellite gravity missions that have accomplished many repetitions, the...

The latest catastrophic earthquakes in eastern Turkey require their geodynamic understanding. The two most decisive events (with magnitude (M) = 7.8 and 7.7) were observed with an interval of 9 hours on February 06, 2023, followed by a whole series of aftershocks (four with M ≥6, about twenty-five with M ≥5 and above, and more than two hundred with...

The gravity field analysis is a powerful method for studying regional and local Earth’s structure peculiarities. Earth’s surface gravity measurements are essential (as close to the investigation targets) but insufficient. These measurements were carried out at different years, with various scales and accuracy and numerous white spots. The present e...

The aim of the present work is to furnish a detailed picture of the space-time-magnitude statistical properties of the instrumental seismic catalogue of Azerbaijan and surrounding regions from 2003 to 2016. Although Azerbaijan is one of the most seismically active areas in the world, an exhaustive description of the statistical properties of the ti...

In this research, the Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) method is used to evaluate the connection between earthquakes and volcano dynamics in Azerbaijan. InSAR provides a robust technique for defining the complexity of earthquakes in spatial dimensions and provides more precise information about the effects of earthquakes than tradit...

Land use and land cover (LULC) changes covering the 32-year period during which the Zangilan region was occupied and liberated from occupation were carried out in this study. The process was compared using and classified open-source Landsat 4, 5, 8, 9, and Sentinel 2 data with 10-year periods, plus the data ingested after the liberation date. The d...

Orogenic wedges are common at convergent plate margins and deform internally to maintain a self‐similar geometry during growth. New structural mapping and thermochronometry data illustrate that the eastern Greater Caucasus mountain range of western Asia undergoes deformation via distinct mechanisms that correspond with contrasting lithologies of tw...

This work contributes to depict the current seismicity, fault kinematics, and state of stress in the Greater Caucasus (territories of Georgia, Azerbaijan and Russia). We merged and homogenized data from different earthquake catalogues, relocated~1000 seismic events, created a database of 366 selected focal mechanism solutions, 239 of which are new,...

South Caspian and Upper Kura Basins are a genetically linked system created in a Mesozoic extensional setting with a complex Cenozoic sediment fill history. This study presents new maps delineating these basins, and an interpretation of the regional geodynamic history. Over 150 onshore and offshore borehole temperature measurements, geothermal grad...

The Greater Caucasus orogen on the southern margin of Eurasia is hypothesized to be a young collisional system and may present an opportunity to probe the structural, sedimentary, and geodynamic effects of continental collision. We present detrital zircon U‐Pb age data from the Caucasus region that constrain changes in sediment routing and source e...

Hypothesized feedbacks between climate and tectonics are mediated by the relationship between topography and long-term erosion rates. While many studies show monotonic relationships between channel steepness and erosion rates, the degree of nonlinearity in this relationship varies by landscape. Mechanistically explaining controls on this relationsh...

The temporal variations of the instrumental seismicity (0.5 ≤ML ≤ 3.5) recorded in the Mingechevir area (Azerbaijan) between January 2010 to December 2018 and its relationship with the level variation of the water reservoir was analysed in this study. The monthly number of events was analysed by using the correlogram-based periodogram, the singular...

Azerbaijan is characterized by a strong level of seismicity with earthquakes concentrated within several active areas. In this study, we calculated the source mechanism of earthquakes occurring in the northeastern part of Azerbaijan, by using the digital waveform data recorded by the Republican Seismic Survey Center (RSSC) at the Azerbaijan Nationa...

Being a part of ongoing continental collision between the Arabian and Eurasian plates, the Caucasus region is a remarkable site of moderate to strong seismicity, where devastating earthquakes caused significant losses of lives and livelihood. In this article, we survey geology and geodynamics of the Caucasus and its surroundings; magmatism and heat...

This work contributes to depict the current seismicity, fault kinematics, and state of stress in the Greater Caucasus (territories of Georgia, Azerbaijan and Russia). We merged and homogenized data from different earthquake catalogues, relocated ~1000 seismic events, created a database of 366 selected focal mechanism solutions, 239 of which are new...

Книга посвящена актуальным вопросам геодинамики неотектонического этапа Кавказского сегмента Альпийско-Гималай¬ско¬го орогенного пояса. Авто-рами изучены проявления магматизма, складчато-разрывных дислокаций, роль горизонтальных и вертикальных движений, сейсмичности и палеосейсмодисло-каций в этом регионе. На основе палеомагнитных исследований прои...

The book covers all the elements of the petroleum system of the South Caspian basin. The evolution of the deep structure of the basin, lithofacies, types and maturity of organic matter, the quality of reservoir rocks, the different aspects of generation, migration, accumulation of hydrocarbon fluids and basin modeling are considered.

There are several viewpoints about the relationship of mud volcano eruptions with earthquakes, or earthquake occurrences with mud volcano eruptions. This paper demonstrates evaluation of dynamic strains triggered by Caspian earthquakes which occurred on the 25 th of No- vember, 2000, south of Baku city with M w 6.1 and 6.2. Consequently, we researc...

This work contributes to depict the current seismicity, fault kinematics, and state of stress in the Greater Caucasus (territories of Georgia, Azerbaijan and Russia). We merged and homogenized data from different earthquake catalogues, relocated ~1000 seismic events, created a database of 366 selected focal mechanism solutions, 239 of which are new,...

Analysis of temperature outputs from 1D burial histories and calibration of heatflow data and geothermal gradient is a useful tool in understanding crustal structure of a basin where accurate measurements of such parameters are limited. We attempted to use existing temperature observations from well data to predict depth to basement and crustal thi...

Our study was focused on the active tectonics of the southern slope of the Greater Caucasus within Azerbai-jan. The study area is the zone of under-thrusting (pseudosubduction) interaction between Southern and Northern Caucasus continental microplates, which caused the tectonic stratification of the Alpine formations into various al-lochthonous and...

Our study was focused on the active tectonics of the southern slope of the Greater Caucasus within Azerbai-jan. The study area is the zone of under-thrusting (pseudosubduction) interaction between Southern and Northern Caucasus continental microplates, which caused the tectonic stratification of the Alpine formations into various al-lochthonous and...

In this study, we purposed to investigate the edge of geostructures and position of existing faults of the Shamakhy–Gobustan and Absheron hydrocarbon containing regions in Azerbaijan. For this purpose, the horizontal gradient, analytic signal, tilt angle, and hyperbolic of tilt angle methods were applied to the first vertical derivative of gravity...

The time variation of several statistical parameters describing the complex time dynamics of the seismicity of Azerbaijan from 2010 to 2016 is investigated. Besides the well-known Gutenberg–Richter b value and the coefficients of variation, two quantities, derived by the recent method of horizontal visibility graph are analysed, namely the mean con...

The time variation of several statistical parameters describing the complex time dynamics of the seismicity of Azerbaijan from 2010 to 2016 is investigated. Besides the well known Gutenberg-Richter b-value and the coefficients of variation, two quantities, derived by the recent method of horizontal visibility graph (HVG) are analysed, namely the me...

It is of particular interest to discover magnetic nanoparticles within the structure of oil elements. The presence of magnetic nanoparticles in oil provides the possibility of managing the important technological properties of oil (viscosity, deemulsification, paraffin collapse, etc.) with the help of external magnetic field. We explained the impac...

Azerbaijan is located in the zone of active collision between two continental lithospheric plates: the African and Eurasian plates. The plates’ tectonic reconstructions show that the collision between the Arabian and Eurasian plates has been in progress during the last 10– 30 Ma. The velocity of the northward motion of the Arabian Plate relative to...

Although Azerbaijan is one of the most seismically active areas in the world, an exhaustive description of the statistical properties of the time, space and magnitude distribution of its seismicity is still lacking. Therefore, the aim of this work is to fill this scientific gap. The accurate estimation of b-value of Gutenberg-Richter (GR) frequency...

Azerbaijan is located in the zone of active collision between two continental lithospheric plates: the African and Eurasian plates. The plates’ tectonic reconstructions show that the collision between the Arabian and Eurasian plates has been in progress during the last 10– 30 Ma. The velocity of the northward motion of the Arabian Plate relative to...

Measurements have been made of gravitational field, geodetic uplift, regional horizontal tectonic movement, thermal patterns, and radioactivity in the general area of the Lokbatan mud volcano after its explosion on October 25, 2001, as well as in the crater itself. In addition, geochemical measurements of vitrinite reflectance with depth have been...

The aim of the present work is to furnish a detailed picture of the space-time-magnitude statistical properties of the instrumental seismic catalogue of Azerbaijan and surrounding regions from 2003 to 2016. Although Azerbaijan is one of the most seismically active areas in the world, an exhaustive description of the statistical properties of the ti...

The Greater Caucasus (GC) is a young orogen transitioning from subduction to collision, making it an ideal site to study the initiation of continental collision. Further, understanding the timing of convergence and collision of the Greater Caucasus (GC) with the Lesser Caucasus (LC) may help to resolve shortening deficits and constrain the cause of...

This volume provides a review of the water reserves and primary economic deposits (both hydrocarbon and hard) of Azerbaijan and describes an integrated application of geophysical methods (land, airborne, shipborne, and satellite) for studying near-surface and environmental features, regional tectonic-geophysical zonation and integrated studying the...

Geophysical monitoring of oil and gas pipelines (primarily in Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan (BTC) and the South Caucasus Pipelines (SCP)) (Balat, 2006) is one of the most critical problems in Caucasus engineering geophysics (Rabinowitz et al., 2004; Babazade et al., 2008; Tanircan et al., 2011; Bayramov et al., 2016) (Fig. 9.1). It is evident that for this p...

The specific nature of mining geophysics, models of media, and the details and the sequence of the interpretation process, including petrophysical studies, have been amply covered in the books (Ismailzadeh et al., 1983a, b; Khesin et al., 1983, 1996; Gadjiev et al., 1984; Karayev and Rabinovich, 2000; Eppelbaum and Khesin, 2012; Eppelbaum et al., 2...

The territory of Azerbaijan is characterized by high seismic activity, where during the historical period (registered), strong and catastrophic earthquakes with magnitude M 6 were observed. Azerbaijan territory may be subdivided by the level of seismic activity and character of the spatial distribution of strong and weak earthquakes in the followin...

The influence of topographic anomaly of the relief on the stress-strain state of the Caucasus lithosphere ( Azerbaijan ) and plotting the respective models have been considered in the paper. Stress-strain state was studied by the finite element method with the application of software packages HypermeshTM and AbaqusTM .. Based on the plotted models...

This book provides a review of Azerbaijan’s water reserves and main economic deposits (both hydrocarbon and hard) and describes the integrated application of geophysical methods (land, airborne, shipborne and satellite) for studying near-surface and environmental features and regional tectonic-geophysical zonation as well as the study of deep struc...

In the paper, the subduction of the South Caspian microplate beneath the continental lithosphere of Central Caspian is substantiated based on the GPS measurements, crustal density model, seismological data, and seismic section along the Elburs–Apsheron–Balkhan Sill regional profile. In this context, the geodynamical model is suggested for the forma...