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ARABIAN JOURNAL OF GEOSCIENCES
Volume 6, Issue 7, Pages 2329-2342Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s12517-012-0542-5
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High Zagros Belt (Iran); Palaeozoic; Arch; Hercynian unconformity; Normal faulting
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The High Zagros Belt includes exposures of Lower Palaeozoic rocks in the core of several thrusted anticlines developed during the Cenozoic Zagros orogeny. The structural style and tectonic evolution of this area during the Palaeozoic remain poorly understood due to the complexity of the subsequent deformation. We present the preliminary results of a field study focusing on the structural geology of Palaeozoic rocks in this area. We confirm the existence of an angular unconformity below the Lower Permian Faraghan formation. In the geological literature, this unconformity is reported as the Hercynian Unconformity suggesting a relationship with the Hercynian (Variscan) orogeny, which affected Western Europe and westernmost Africa during the Carboniferous. Surprisingly the only observable structures sealed by this unconformity are N to NE trending normal faults and tilted blocks without any evidence of compressional deformation. This pre-Permian extensional deformation, which is general at the scale of the HZB, raises questions about the geodynamic significance of the Hercynian unconformity in the study area and, more generally, in the Arabian plate.
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