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...

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

The Zagros Mountains (Persian: کوه‌های زاگرس, romanized: Kuh hā-ye Zāgros; Arabic: جبال زاغروس, romanized: Jibal Zaghrus; Kurdish: چیاکانی زاگرۆس, romanized: Çiyakanî...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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)...

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

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...

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...

Alpine orogeny and represented in the Middle Eastern territories by the Zagros fold and thrust belt, continued in the late Paleogene and Neogene, with...

of the Zagros Mountains and the Iranian Plateau. The main fault system that runs through the Zagros Range is the Zagros fold and thrust belt, which has...

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...

plates takes place along the Bitlis-Zagros fold and thrust belt. The earthquake's focal mechanism indicates oblique thrust faulting, consistent with the expected...

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...

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...

ranges are associated with thrusting and folding or orogenesis. Examples are the Balkan Mountains, the Jura and the Zagros mountains. When a fault block...

East Anatolian Fault and Zagros fold and thrust belt. These three features mark the plate boundaries of the Anatolian, Arabian and Eurasian plates. Being...

and many hundreds more in the second strong event. The Iranian plateau is confined by the Turan platform in the north and the Zagros fold and thrust belt...

form the Zagros fold and thrust belt. It had an epicenter located beneath an anticline in the southeastern Zagros. Steeply-dipping blind thrust faults in...

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