The Zagros fold and thrust belt (Zagros FTB) is an approximately 1,800-kilometre (1,100 mi) long zone of deformed crustal rocks, formed in the foreland...

fold and thrust belt is a series of mountainous foothills adjacent to an orogenic belt, which forms due to contractional tectonics. Fold and thrust belts...

metres (14,465 ft). The Zagros fold and thrust belt was mainly formed by the collision of two tectonic plates, the Eurasian Plate and the Arabian Plate. This...

daily. The most seismically active parts of this area are the Zagros fold and thrust belt and the Alborz mountain range. Qazvin province, which is located...

formed by folding over a Triassic evaporite decollement due to thrust movements in the foreland of the Alps The 'Simply Folded Belt' of the Zagros Mountains...

Eurasian plate (to the north), and the Arabian plate (to the south and west), which is where the Zagros fold and thrust belt (an ancient subduction zone)...

thickness has undergone folding from the Miocene to the Recent time in the Zagros Mountains. The Zagros fold and thrust belt was formed by the collision...

79–1.18 in) per year. Continental collision is occurring at the Zagros fold and thrust belt west of the Musandam Peninsula. This collisional plate boundary...

provenance record of the Zagros mountain building from the Neotethys obduction to the Arabia–Eurasia collision, NW Zagros fold–thrust belt, Kurdistan region...

Grasemann, B. (2011). Lateral fold growth and linkage in the Zagros fold and thrust belt (Kurdistan, NE Iraq). Basin Research, 23(6), 615–630. Keller...

Simply Folded Belt, the most seismically active part of the Zagros fold and thrust belt. Similar to most earthquakes in the area, the 2005 event resulted...

concerning their age, thickness and types of rocks : Stable Arabian shelf Unstable Arabian shelf Zagros fold-and-thrust belt The end of the Paleozoic experienced...

in the form of emergent salt diapirs within anticlines of the Zagros fold and thrust belt. As a result of their involvement in post-depositional salt tectonics...

Turan platform to the north and the Zagros fold and thrust belt; the suture zone between the northward moving Arabian plate and the Eurasian continent is...

example the Arabian plate and Eurasian plate, which formed the Zagros fold and thrust belt) and collisions between a continent and an island arc such as that...

boundary with the Anatolian plate and Eurasian plate, including the East Anatolian Fault, Zagros fold and thrust belt, and Makran Trench. The Arabian plate...

anticlines, as seen in salt domes in the Zagros Mountains and El Gordo diapir (Coahuila fold-and-thrust belt, NE Mexico). If the pressure within the salt...

Qatar Arch structural feature that is bounded by the Zagros fold and thrust belt to the north and northeast. In the field, gas accumulation is mostly limited...

plateau is confined by the Turan platform in the north and the Zagros fold and thrust belt and Makran Trench in the south. The Arabian plate is converging...

Kurdistan near the Iran-Iraq border. The region belongs to the Zagros mountain range and is difficult to access, with extremely rugged terrain. The highest...

injured, and many more unaccounted for, it was the deadliest earthquake of 2017. The earthquake was located within the Zagros fold and thrust belt, part...

part of Turkey lies on the western end of the Zagros fold and thrust belt, which is dominated by thrust tectonics. Seismic hazard in Turkey is highest...

system to the Zagros fold and thrust belt. To the east, the Makran Trench is bounded by the transpressional strike-slip Ornach-Nal and Chaman Faults,...

sediments being lifted high above sea level from the uplift of the Zagros fold and thrust belt as part of the Alpide orogeny. A high number of fossil fishes...

of which only part is taken up within the Zagros fold and thrust belt. The earthquake was the result of thrust faulting on a NW-SE trending fault plane...

between the Arabian plate and Eurasian plate behind the Zagros fold and thrust belt, the Liquiñe-Ofqui Fault that runs through Chile and the Great Sumatran fault...

partly by thrusting along the Bitlis-Zagros fold and thrust belt and partly by a mixture of sinistral strike-slip on SW-NE trending faults and dextral strike-slip...

Arnfried (June 2000). "The Jura Mountains — an active foreland fold-and-thrust belt?". Tectonophysics. 321 (4): 381–406. Bibcode:2000Tectp.321..381B...

in the Fars Domain of the Zagros fold and thrust belt, which forms part of the collisional zone between the Arabian plate and the Eurasian plate. The Fars...

Anatolian Fault and Zagros fold and thrust belt. These three features mark the plate boundaries of the Anatolian sub-plate, Arabian plate and Eurasian plate...