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

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.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Geological Society of America
Other Authors: Sorkhabi, Rasoul B., 1961- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boulder, Colorado : Geological Society of America, [2017]
Series:Special papers (Geological Society of America) ; 525.
Subjects:
Table of 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.