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- Basin analysis and tectonics
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The Zagros fold-thrust belt in the Kurdistan region of Iraq encroached southward toward a rapidly subsiding Neogene foreland basin and was later partitioned by out-of-sequence shortening focused along the Mountain Front Flexure (MFF), as defined by new low-temperature thermochronologic, stratigraphic, and provenance results. Apatite (U-Th)/He ages...
Convergent plate boundaries are key localities to understanding lithosphere deformation and the fate of the downgoing oceanic slab after continental collision. This study seeks to document the geochemical, geochronological, and thermochronological imprints of the Neotethys consumption and the potential post-Arabia-Eurasia collision slab breakoff. I...
Tectonic processes resulting from solid Earth dynamics control uplift and generate sediment accommodation space via subsidence. Unraveling the mechanism of basin subsidence elucidates the link between deep-Earth and surface processes. The NW Zagros fold–thrust belt resulted from the Cenozoic convergence and subsequent collision between the Arabian...
The Zagros fold belt in the Arabian-Eurasian collision zone is shaped by a combination of thin-skinned detachment folding and thick-skinned thrusting. Analysis of magnetostratigraphic ages indicates that the folding of the sedimentary cover propagated along multiple detachment levels in sequence toward the foreland since the early Miocene. However,...
The Late Miocene-Pliocene is a time of significant environmental changes in western Eurasia. The intensified mountain building process between the Eurasian, African and Arabian plates restructured the regional landscapes, basins, and biotic record. It has resulted in dramatic palaeoenvironmental events, like the Messinian salinity crisis (MSC) in t...
Deep earth geodynamic processes shape surface geology, topography, and the earth's crust evolution with consequences on erosion, deposition, climate, and biogeography. This research investigates the early-stage growth of the NW Zagros belt in the Kurdistan region of Iraq after the early Oligocene Arabia-Eurasia collision and the geologic signatures...
Integrated stratigraphic and sedimentological analysis have been used to reconstruct the paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental history of the nonmarine siliciclastic deposits of the Injana Formation (Langhian-Serravallian) from the Kurdistan foreland basin (N. Iraq).The transition from marine to nonmarine deposits resulted from the gradual retreat o...
Tectonic processes resulting from solid Earth dynamics control uplift and generate sediment accommodation space via subsidence. Unraveling the mechanism of basin subsidence elucidates the link between deep Earth and Surface processes. The NW Zagros fold-thrust belt results from the Cenozoic convergence and subsequent collision between the Arabian a...
Three stratigraphic sections were sampled to demystify the geochemical properties of the shallow marine Govanda Formation, located in the Arabia–Eurasia suture zone at ~ 1500 m above sea level. This study examined the geochemistry of major, trace, rare earth elements (REE) and the petrography of carbonate rocks of the lower–middle Miocene Govanda F...
To demystify the geochemical properties of the shallow marine Govanda Formation that are ~ 1500 m high Arabia–Eurasia suture zone, three stratigraphic sections were sampled in the NW Zagros fold–thrust belt in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. This study examined the petrography and geochemistry of major, trace, and rare earth elements (REE) of the low...
The Abu Jir fault zone in western Iraq that marks the western limit of the Zagros foreland basin merges with the Anah graben in the north. The northern segment of the Abu Jir fault zone and the western Anah graben are inverted structures. In this study, we investigated the timing and mechanism of the northern Abu Jir fault zone inversion in compari...
Recognition of a new angular unconformity and the synthesis of new detrital zircon U–Pb and (U–Th) / He provenance records, including zircon (U–Th) / He double dating, from the NW Zagros region elucidate the basin dynamics of the foreland wedge-top and intermontane units, as well as the tectonic processes in the source terranes in response to the d...
Apatite (U‐Th)/He (AHe) thermochronometric results are integrated with geologic cross sections, structural relationships, and stratigraphic data to reconstruct the growth of the NW Zagros orogenic belt in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. Prolonged exhumation is documented across the belt with deformation advances and retreats from ~14 Ma onward. After...
The Penjween ophiolite complex represents a remnant of the Neotethys oceanic crust that was preserved in the
Zagros Suture Zone of NE Iraq. The complex is composed of dunite, harzburgite, and pyroxenite at the bottom,
gabbro in the middle, and diorite at the top. Minor peraluminous granitiod intrusions of different types were
identified in the comp...
The Penjween ophiolite complex represents a remnant of the Neotethys oceanic crust that preserved in the Zagros Suture Zone, NE Iraq. The complex is composed of dunite, harzburgite, and pyroxenite at the bottom, gabbro in the middle, and diorite at the top. Minor peraluminous granitiod intrusions of different types were identified in the complex. T...
In the northwestern sector of the Zagros foreland basin, axial fluvial systems initially delivered fine‐grained sediments from northwestern source regions into a contiguous basin, and later transverse fluvial systems delivered coarse‐grained sediments from northeastern sources into a structurally partitioned basin by fold‐thrust deformation. Here w...
The genetic analysis of fold and thrust belts is facilitated by tracking the evolution of their organic endowment (petroleum tectonics). Petroleum tectonic analysis of convergent orogenic systems provides an audit of the processes that control the deformation and kinematics of orogenic belts. The distribution and deformation paths of the organic en...
One of the major debated aspects of the Zagros orogenic system in the Middle East is the timing of onset of continental collision between Arabia and Eurasia. The Zagros hinterland in the Kurdistan region of Iraq contains an ~2-km-thick clastic depositional sequence of the Red Bed Series (RBS) that rests unconformably on the Arabian foreland and str...
Cenozoic exhumation patterns in the internal and external Zagros reveal a long-term deformation record associated with geodynamic restructuring of Arabia-Eurasia collisional zone from continental subduction to plate suturing, which can be evaluated from thermochronometric, provenance, and subsidence analyses. Thermal modeling of zircon and apatite...
