Virtual Fieldtrips
Virtual Fieldtrips
Two Virtual Fieldtrips gathering scientifc work carried out by the Group of Dynamics of the Lithosphere (GDL) are currently shown: the Zagros Fold and Thrust Belt in Iran and Iraq and Central High Atlas in Morocco.
These Virtual trips are based on grouping the different papers in single downloadable Google Earth kmz files including field photos, maps, cross-sections and more...
Zagros Foreland Timing (Magnetostratigraphy) 🌍
Link to Google Earth file: Dating Zagros Foreland.kmz
One of the main objectives of our work in the Zagros Fold Belt was to date the syntectonic deposits that were undeated. In 2004 we published our first study located in the Changule growth syncline along the Iran-Iraq border in Lurestan.
Since then, a total of 8 growth strata localitites were analyzed in 6 papers acorss the Lurestan, Dezful and Fars domains:
Homke et al. 2004 – Homke et al. 2009 – Khadivi et al. 2010
Vergés et al. 2019 – Lasghari et al. 2020 – Najafi et al. 2020
Assembled by Cristina Biete & Cristina Martínez
Zagros Fold Belt (Kurdistan - Lurestan - Dezful - Fars)
Map of the Zagros orogenic system from Le Garzic et al. ( 2019). Below, satellite map showing the main structural domains of the Zagros.
Link to Google Earth file: Kurdistan Domain.kmz
Geolocation of main analyzed field localities, geological maps, and cross-sections from extensive work in the Kurdistan (Kirkuk embayment).
Le Garzic et al. 2019
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Link to Google Earth file: Lurestan Domain.kmz
Geolocation of the main analyzed field localities, geological maps, and cross-sections from extensive work in the Lurestan arc. More than 20 papers from which 12 are included in this Lurestan domain.
Homke et al. 2004
Emamii et al. 2010 – Homke et al. 2010
Sharp et al. 2011 – Vergés et al. 2011 – Casciello et al. 2011
Casini et al. 2011 – Saura et al. 2011 – Vergés et al. 2011b
Saura et al. 2012
Casini et al. 2018
Vergés et al. 2019
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Link to Google Earth file: Dezful Domain.kmz
Geolocation of the main analyzed field localities, geological maps, and cross-sections from extensive work in the Dezful embayment. 3 papers are included in this Dezful embayment domain.
Najafi et al. 2018
Etemad-Saeed et al. 2020
Lashgari et al. 2020
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Link to Google Earth file: Fars Domain.kmz
Geolocation of the main analyzed field localities, geological maps, and cross-sections from extensive work in the Fars arc. 3 paper are included in this Dezful embayment domain.
Najafi et al. 2014
Khadivi et al. 2009
Najafi et al. 2020
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Link to Google Earth file: Central High Atlas Virtual Fieldtrips.kmz
One of the main objectives of our work in the Central high Atlas in Morocco was to decipher the widespread distribution of salt-related structures defined by a netwrok of salt walls and salt welds. Up to now, our contribution is of 6 published papers and one in preparation about a regional transect to define the extensional rift structure and of its tectonic inversion.
Saura et al. 2014 – Moragas et al. 2017
Martín-Martín et al. 2017 – Vergés et al. 2017
Moragas et al. 2018 – Moragas et al. 2020
Assembled by Cristina Martínez