Cretaceous sequence of deformation in the SE Zagros fold-thrust belt

• Published in: Journal of the Geological Society Vol. 169; no. 6; pp. 733 - 743
• Main Authors: Farahpour, Mohammad M, Hessami, Khaled
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, UK Geological Society of London 01.11.2012; The Geological Society of London; Geological Society; Geological Society Publishing House
• Subjects: angular unconformities; anticlines; Aptian; Asia; Basins; Cenomanian; Cenozoic; Cretaceous; Crystalline rocks; Dariyan Formation; decollement; deformation; Earth sciences; Earth, ocean, space; Exact sciences and technology; faults; fold and thrust belts; folds; Geology; Hormuz Salt; Igneous and metamorphic rocks petrology, volcanic processes, magmas; Ilam Formation; listric faults; Lower Cretaceous; Mesozoic; Middle East; normal faults; orogeny; Plate tectonics; Santonian; Sarvak Formation; Senonian; Stratigraphy; Structural geology; syntectonic processes; tectonics; Tectonics. Structural geology. Plate tectonics; Tertiary; thick-skinned tectonics; Turonian; unconformities; Upper Cretaceous; Zagros; Middle East; Asia; Zagros; Iran; Senonian; Mesozoic; folds; folding; Santonian; deformation; Upper Cretaceous; anticlines; tectonics; Cenozoic; cross sections; salt; maps; Tertiary; stratigraphic columns; Cenomanian; Cretaceous; chemically precipitated rocks; evaporites; sedimentary rocks; Turonian; Lower Cretaceous; angular unconformities; thrust; Aptian; growth; style; Phanerozoic; orogeny

Several major zones across the Zagros fold-thrust belt have been interpreted as indicating that orogeny took place progressively from NE to SW through discrete orogenic episodes during Tertiary time. This paper uses field evidence of growth onlaps and angular unconformities within the Cretaceous str...