Tectonic evolution, collision, and seismicity of southwest Asia : in honor of Manuel Berberian's forty-five years of research contributions / edited by Rasoul Sorkhabi.

9780813795256 (ebook) :

Boulder, Colorado : The Geological Society of America, 2017.

1 online resource (iv, 675 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour).

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Southwest Asia is one of the most remarkable regions on Earth in terms of active faulting & folding, large-magnitude earthquakes, volcanic landscapes, petroliferous foreland basins, historical civilizations as well as geologic outcrops that display the protracted & complex 540 m.y. stratigraphic record of Earth's Phanerozoic Era. Emerged from the birth & demise of the Paleo-Tethys & Neo-Tethys oceans, southwest Asia is currently the locus of ongoing tectonic collision between the Eurasia-Arabia continental plates. The region is characterized by the high plateaus of Iran & Anatolia fringed by the lofty ranges of Zagros, Alborz, Caucasus, Taurus, & Pontic mountains; the region also includes the strategic marine domains of the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, Caspian, & Mediterranean. This volume brings together a wealth of new data, analyses, frontier research & much more.

GeoScienceWorld 2017.

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August 19, 2024

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