Zagros Fold Belt

Talks

A summary of our work in the NW Zagros in Iran is included in this talk presented in the Zagros-Makran Darius Workshop held in Barcelona in May 2012. Stratigraphic and Structural Studies on the Simply Folded Belt of the Zagros Mountain Range, Lurestan Province, Iran (PPT-PDF)

References

2019

Vergés, J., Emami, H., Garcés, M., Beamud, E., Homke, S., Skott, P., 2019. Zagros Foreland Fold Belt Timing Across Lurestan to Constrain Arabia–Iran Collision, in: A. Saein (Ed.), In: Tectonic and Structural Framework of the Zagros Fold-Thrust Belt (A. Saein Ed.). Elsevier. pp. 29–52. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-815048-1.00003-2

Le Garzic, E., Vergés, J., Sapin, F., Saura, E., Meresse, F., Ringenbach, J.-C., 2019. Evolution of the NW Zagros Fold-and-Thrust Belt in Kurdistan Region of Iraq from balanced and restored crustal-scale sections and forward modeling. J. Struct. Geol. 124, 51–69. doi:10.1016/j.jsg.2019.04.006

Heydarzadeh, K., Bruno Ruh, J., Vergés, J., Hajialibeigi, H., Gharabeigli, G., 2020. Evolution of a structural basin: Numerical modelling applied to the Dehdasht Basin, Central Zagros, Iran. J. Asian Earth Sci. 187, 104088. doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2019.104088

Kendall, J., Vergés, J., Koshnaw, R., Louterbach, M., 2019. Petroleum tectonic comparison of fold and thrust belts: the Zagros of Iraq and Iran, the Pyrenees of Spain, the Sevier of Western USA and the Beni Sub-Andean of Bolivia. From Mammerstein, J.A., Di Cuia, R., Cottam , M.A., Zamora, G. Butler, R.W.H. Fold Thrust Belts Struct. Style, Evol. Explor. Geol. Soc. London, Spec. Publ. 490, 490, SP490-2018–102. doi:10.1144/SP490-2018-102

Legeay, E., Ringenbach, J.-C., Kergaravat, C., Pichat, A., Mohn, G., Vergés, J., Kavak, K.S., Callot, J.-P., 2019. Structure and kinematics of the Central Sivas Basin (Turkey): salt deposition and tectonics in an evolving fold-and-thrust belt. Geol. Soc. London, Spec. Publ. 490, SP490-2019–92. doi:10.1144/SP490-2019-92

2018

Vergés, J., Emami, H., Garcés, M., Beamud, E., Homke, S., Skott, P., 2018. Zagros foreland fold belt timing across Lurestan to constrain Arabia-Iran collision, in: A. Saein (Ed.), In: Tectonic and Structural Framework of the Zagros Fold-Thrust Belt (A. Saein Ed.). Elsevier. pp. 1–41

Najafi, M., Vergés, J., Etemad-Saeed, N., Goodarzi, M.G.H., Motamedi, H., 2018. Folding, Thrusting and Diapirism: Competing Mechanisms Shaping the Structure of the North Dezful Embayment, Zagros, Iran. Basin Res.

Casini, G., Romaire, I., Casciello, E., Saura, E., Vergés, J., Fernandez, N., Hunt, D.W., 2018. Fracture characterization in sigmoidal folds: insights from the Siah Kuh anticline, Zagros, Iran. Am. Assoc. Pet. Geol. Bull. 102, 369–399. doi:10.1306/0503171615817076

2017

Tunini, L., Jiménez-Munt, I., Fernandez, M., Vergés, J., Bird, P., 2017. Neotectonic Deformation in Central Eurasia: A Geodynamic Model Approach. J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth 1–24. doi:10.1002/2017JB014487

Ruh, J.B., Vergés, J., 2017. Effects of reactivated extensional basement faults on structural evolution of fold-and-thrust belts: Insights from numerical modelling applied to the Kopet Dagh Mountains. Tectonophysics. doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2017.05.020

2016

Tunini, L., Jiménez-Munt, I., Fernandez, M., Vergés, J., Villaseñor, A., Melchiorre, M., Afonso, J.C., 2016. Geophysical-petrological model of the crust and upper mantle in the India-Eurasia collision zone. Tectonics 35, 1642–1669. doi:10.1002/2016TC004161

2015

Robert, A.M.M., Fernàndez, M., Jiménez, I., Vergés, J., 2015. Lithospheric structure in Central Eurasia derived from elevation, geoid anomaly and thermal analysis. Brunet, M.-F., McCann, T. Sobel, E. R. Geol. Evol. Cent. Asian Basins West. Tien Shan Range. Geol. Soc. London, Spec. Publ. 427. doi:10.1144/ SP427.10

Tunini, L., Jiménez-Munt, I., Fernàndez, M., Vergés, J., Villaseñor, A., 2015. Lithospheric mantle heterogeneities below the Zagros Mountains and the Iranian Plateau: a petrological-geophysical study. Geophys. J. Int. 200, 596–614.

Saura, E., Garcia-Castellanos, D., Casciello, E., Parravano, V., Urruela, A., Vergés, J., 2015. Modelling the flexural evolution of the Amiran and Mesopotamian foreland basins of NW Zagros (Iran). Tectonics (online).

2014

Robert, A., Letouzey, J., Kavoosi, M., Sherkati, S., Carla, M., Vergés, J., & Agababai, A. (2014). Structural evolution of the Kopet Dagh fold-and-thrust belt (NE Iran) and interactions with the South Caspian Sea Basin and Amu Darya Basin. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 57, 68–87. (PDF)

Najafi, M., Yassaghi, A., Bahroudi, A., Vergés, J., & Sherkati, S. (2014). Impact of the Late Triassic Dashtak intermediate detachment horizon on anticline geometry in the Central Frontal Fars, SE Zagros Fold Belt, Iran. Marine of Petroleum Geology, 54, 23–36. (PDF)

2013

Saura, E., Embry, J.-C., Vergés, J., Hunt, D.W., Casciello, E., Homke, S., 2013. Growth fold controls on carbonate distribution in mixed foreland basins: insights from the Amiran foreland basin (NW Zagros, Iran) and stratigraphic numerical modelling. Basin Research, 24, 1-23 (PDF)

2012

Jiménez-Munt, I., Fernàndez, M., Saura, E., Vergés, J., Garcia-Castellanos, D., 2012. 3D lithospheric structure and regional / residual Bouguer anomalies from Arabia-Eurasia collision in Iran. Geophysical Journal International (PDF)

Mouthereau, F., Lacombe, O., Vergés, J., 2012. Building the Zagros collisional orogen: Timing, strain distribution and the dynamics of Arabia/Eurasia plate convergence. Tectonophysics 532-535, 27-60. (PDF)

2011

Casini, G., Gillespie, P., Vergés, J., Romaire, I., Fernández, N., Casciello, E., Saura, E., Homke, S., Embry, J.-C., Hunt, D.W., 2011. Sub-seismic fractures in foreland fold and thrust belts: Insight from the Lurestan Province, Zagros Mountains, Iran. Petroleum Geoscience 17, 263-282. (PDF)

Lapponi, F., Casini, G., Sharp, I., Blendinger, W., Fernandez, N., Romaire, I., Hunt, D., 2011. From outcrop to 3D modelling: a case study of a dolomitized carbonate reservoir, Zagros Mountains, Iran. Petroleum Geoscience 17, 283-307. (PDF)

Saura, E., Vergés, J., Homke, S., Blanc, E., Serra-Kiel, J., Bernaola, G., Casciello, E., Fernández, N., Romaire, I., Casini, G., Embry, J.-C., Sharp, I.R., Hunt, D.W., 2011. Basin architecture and growth folding of the NW Zagros early foreland basin during the Late Cretaceous and early Tertiary. Journal of the Geological Society 168, 235-250. (PDF) (Suppl. files PDF)

Vergés, J., Goodarzi, M.G.H., Emami, H., Karpuz, R., Efstathiou, J., Gillespie, P., 2011. Multiple detachment folding in Pusht-e Kuh arc, Zagros: Role of mechanical stratigraphy. AAPG Memoir 94 Chapter 4, 69-94. (PDF)

Vergés, J., Saura, E., Casciello, E., Fernàndez, M., Villaseñor, A., Jiménez-Munt, I., García-Castellanos, D., 2011. Crustal-scale cross-sections across the NW Zagros belt: implications for the Arabian margin reconstruction. Geological Magazine 148, 739-761. (PDF)

2010

Emami, H., Vergés, J., Nalpas, T., Gillespie, P., Sharp, I., Karpuz, R., Blanc, E.P., Goodarzi, M.G.H., 2010. Structure of the Mountain Front Flexure along the Anaran anticline in the Pusht-e Kuh Arc (NW Zagros, Iran): insights from sand box models. in Tectonic and Stratigraphic evolution of Zagros and Makran during the Meso-Cenozoic, edited by P. Leturmy and C. Robin, Geological Society of London Special Volume. 330, 155-178, doi:10.1144/SP330.9. (PDF)

Homke, S., Vergés, J., Van Der Beek, P., Fernàndez, M., Saura, E., Barbero, L., Badics, B., Labrin, E., 2010. Insights in the exhumation history of the NW Zagros from bedrock and detrital apatite fission-track analysis: evidence for a long-lived orogeny. Basin Research 22, 659-680. (PDF)

Khadivi, S., Mouthereau, F., Larrasoaña, J.-C., Vergés, J., Lacombe, O., Khademi, E., Beamud, E., Melinte-Dobrinescu, M., Suc, J.-P., 2010. Magnetochronology of synorogenic Miocene foreland sediments in the Fars arc of the Zagros Folded Belt (SW Iran). Basin Research 22, 918-932. (PDF)

Sharp, I., Gillespie, P., Morsalnezhad, D., Taberner, C., Karpuz, R., Vergés, J., Horbury, A., Pickard, N., Garland, J., Hunt, D., 2010. Stratigraphic architecture and fracture-controlled dolomitization of the Cretaceous Khami and Bangestan groups: an outcrop case study, Zagros Mountains, Iran. in Reference models of Mesozoic and Cenozoic carbonate systems in Europe and the Middle East – stratigraphy and diagenesis, edited by F. van Buchem, K. Gerdes and M. Esteban, Geological Society, London, Special Publications 329, 343-396. (PDF)

2009

Casciello, E., Vergés, J., Saura, E., Casini, G., Fernández, N., Blanc, E., Homke, S., Hunt, D., 2009. Fold patterns and multilayer rheology of the Lurestan Province, Zagros Simply Folded Belt (Iran). Journal of the Geological Society 166, 947-959. (PDF)

Homke, S., Vergés, J., Serra-Kiel, J., Bernaola, G., Sharp, I., Garces, M., Montero-Verdu, I., Karpuz, R., Goodarzi, M.H., 2009. Late Cretaceous-Paleocene formation of the proto-Zagros foreland basin, Lurestan Province, SW Iran. Geological Society of America Bulletin 121, 963-978. (PDF)

2008

Emami, H., 2008, Foreland propagation folding and structure of the mountain front flexure in the Pusht-e Kuh Arc (NW Zagros, Iran). PhD Department of Geodinàmica i Geofísica. Universitat de Barcelona, 199 pp. (PDF)

2007

Homke, S., 2007, Timing of Shortening and Uplift of the Pusht-E Kuh Arc in the Zagros Fold-And-Thrust Belt (Iran). A Combined Magnetostratigraphy and Apatite Thermochronology Analysis. PhD Department of Geodinàmica i Geofísica. Universitat de Barcelona, 213 pp. (PDF)

Vergés, J., 2007. Drainage responses to oblique and lateral thrust ramps: a review. in G. Nichols, C. Paola, and E. Williams, eds., Sedimentary processes, environments and basins: a tribute to Peter Friend, v. International Association of Sedimentologists Special Publication, vol. 38. Chapter 3, Blackwell Publishing p. 29-47. 38, 29-47. (PDF)

2004

Homke, S., Vergés, J., Garcés, M., Emami, H., Karpuz, R., 2004. Magnetostratigraphy of Miocene-Pliocene Zagros foreland deposits in the front of the Push-e Kush Arc (Lurestan Province, Iran). Earth and Planetary Science Letters 225, 397-410. (PDF)