Tectonic evolution, collision, and seismicity of southwest Asia : in honor of Manuel Berberian's forty-five years of research contributions / edited by Rasoul Sorkhabi.
"This volume, published in honor of Manuel Berberian, brings together a wealth of new data, analyses, and frontier research on the geologic evolution, collisional tectonics, active deformation, and historical and modern seismicity of key areas in southwest Asia"--
| Uniform Title: | Special papers (Geological Society of America) ;
525. |
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| Language: | English |
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Boulder, Colorado :
The Geological Society of America,
2017.
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| Series: | Special papers (Geological Society of America) ;
525. |
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| Physical Description: | iv, 675 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 28 cm. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Tectonic evolution, collision, and seismicity of southwest Asia: an introduction / Rasoul Sorkhabi
- Manuel Berberian: an appreciation and bibliography of his lifelong contribution to geoscience / Rasoul Sorkhabi. Part 1 Zagros Orogen and Iranian Plateau : Development of geological perceptions and explorations on the Iranian Plateau: from Zoroastrian cosmogony to plate tectonics (ca. 1200 BCE to 1980 CE) / Manuel Berberian
- Tehran: an earthquake time bomb / Manuel Berberian and Robert S. Yeats
- Archaeological and architectural evidence of historical seismic activity along the Zāgros Main Recent fault at Borujerd (western Iranian Plateau); the 1316 C.E. earthquake / Manuel Berberian, Mohammad Moqaddas, and Ahmad Kabiri
- Kinematics of the Great Kavir fault inferred from a structural analysis of the Pees Kuh Complex, Jandaq area, central Iran / Sasan Bagheri, Razieh Madhanifard, and Foruzan Zahabi
- Mid-ocean-ridge to suprasubduction geochemical transition in the hypabyssal and extrusive sequences of major Upper Cretaceous ophiolites of Iran / Morteza Khalatbari Jafari, Hassan A. Babaie, and Mohammad Elyas Moslempour
- The geodynamic significance of the correlation of the Khoy ophiolites in northwest Iran with ophiolites in southeast Turkey / Morteza Khalatbari Jafari and Hassan A. Babaie
- Tectono-stratigraphic evidence for the opening and closure of the Neotethys Ocean in the southern Sanandaj-Sirjan zone, Iran / Mohammad Reza Sheikholeslami
- The lower-middle Cambrian transition and the Sauk I-II unconformable boundary in Iran, a record of late early Cambrian global Hawke Bay regression / Yaghoob Lasemi and Hadi Amin-Rasouli
- Biostratigraphy of acritarchs and chitinozoans in Ordovician strata from the Fazel Abad area, southeastern Caspian Sea, Alborz Mountains, norther Iran: stratigraphic and paleographic implications / Mohammad Ghavidel-Syooki
- Controls on the sequence stratigraphic architecture of the Neogene Zagros foreland basin / Mortaza Pirouz, Guy Simpson, Sebastien Castelltort, Georges Gorin, and Abbas Bahroudi
- Size distribution and controls of landslides in the Zagros mountain belt (Iran) / Neda Ghazipour and Guy Simpson. Part 2 The Caucasus Region and Anatolia : Aspects of the seismotectonics of Armenia: new data and reanalysis / Arkadi Karakhanyan, A. Arakelyan, A. Avagyan, and T. Sadoyan
- Archaeoseismological studies at the Pambak-Sevan-Syunik fault system, Armenia / Arkadi Karakhanyan, R. Badalyan, A. Harutyunian, A. Avagyan, H. Philip, V. Davtyan, G. Alaverdyan, K. Makaryan, and M. Martirosyan
- Tethyan evolution and continental collision in Georgia / Shota Adamia, A. Chabukiani, T. Chkotua, O. Enukidze, N. Sadradze, and G. Zakariadze
- Postcollisional tectonics and seismicity of Georgia / Shota Adamia, V. Alania, N. Tsereteli, O. Varazanashvili, N. Sadradze, N. Lursmanashvili, and A. Gventsadze
- The evolution of the Intra-Pontide suture: implications of the discovery of late Cretaceous-early Tertiary mélanges / Kenan Akbayram, A.M. Celâl Şengör, and Ercan Özcan
- New synthesis of the Izmir-Ankara-Erzincan suture zone and the Ankara mélange in northern Anatolia based on new geochemcial and geochronological constraints / Ender Sarifakioğlu, Yildirim Dilek, and Mustafa Sevin.