Lateral Structural Variation of the Lithosphere‐Asthenosphere System in the Northeastern to Eastern Iranian Plateau and Its Tectonic Implications

Imaging the 2–D crust and upper mantle structure of the Iranian plateau resolved by potential field and seismic data

(2020) Mojtaba Namvaran et al.   PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS

Timing of Arabia-Eurasia collision: Constraints from restoration of crustal-scale cross-sections

(2020) Hao Su et al.   JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY

An up-to-date crustal deformation map of Iran using integrated campaign-mode and permanent GPS velocities

(2019) Fatemeh Khorrami et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Mantle dynamics of the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East: Constraints from P‐wave anisotropic tomography

(2019) Wei Wei et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Deep velocity image of the north Zagros collision zone (Iran) from regional and teleseismic tomography

(2019) M Rahmani et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Simultaneous tomography of all periods in surface wave analysis

(2019) Najmieh Mohammadi et al.   PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS

The role of active strike-slip faults and opposite vertical axis rotations in accommodating eurasia-arabia shortening in central iran

(2019) Massimo Mattei et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Mesozoic to Cenozoic magmatic history of the Pamir

(2018) James B. Chapman et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Upper mantle anisotropy and deformation beneath the major thrust-and-fold belts of Zagros and Alborz and the Iranian Plateau

(2018) Amir Sadeghi-Bagherabadi et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Geochemistry, zircon U-Pb and Hf isotope for granitoids, NW Sanandaj-Sirjan zone, Iran: Implications for Mesozoic-Cenozoic episodic magmatism during Neo-Tethyan lithospheric subduction

(2018) Zhiyong Zhang et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Mantle Transition Zone Thickness Beneath the Middle East: Evidence for Segmented Tethyan Slabs, Delaminated Lithosphere, and Lower Mantle Upwelling

(2018) Ayoub Kaviani et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Scattered wave imaging of the oceanic plate in Cascadia

(2018) Catherine A. Rychert et al.   Science Advances

Transport of Volatile-rich Melt from the Mantle Transition Zone via Compaction Pockets: Implications for Mantle Metasomatism and the Origin of Alkaline Lavas in the Turkish–Iranian Plateau

(2018) A Soltanmohammadi et al.   JOURNAL OF PETROLOGY

Seismic Anisotropy and Its Geodynamic Implications in Iran, the Easternmost Part of the Tethyan Belt

(2018) Amir Sadeghi-Bagherabadi et al.   TECTONICS

Lithospheric structure of the Eastern Iranian plateau from integrated geophysical modeling: A transect from Makran to the Turan platform

(2017) Vahid Entezar-Saadat et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Continental collision with a sandwiched accreted terrane: Insights into Himalayan–Tibetan lithospheric mantle tectonics?

(2016) Sean Kelly et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Questions on the existence, persistence, and mechanical effects of a very small melt fraction in the asthenosphere

(2016) Benjamin K. Holtzman   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

U–Pb zircon ages, field geology and geochemistry of the Kermanshah ophiolite (Iran): From continental rifting at 79Ma to oceanic core complex at ca. 36Ma in the southern Neo-Tethys

(2016) Songjian Ao et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Detrital zircon provenance analysis in the Zagros Orogen, SW Iran: implications for the amalgamation history of the Neo-Tethys

(2016) Zhiyong Zhang et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES

Lithosphere delamination in continental collisional orogens: A systematic numerical study

(2016) Zhong-Hai Li et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Experimental evidence supports mantle partial melting in the asthenosphere

(2016) J. Chantel et al.   Science Advances

Seismic Evidence for Sharp Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundaries of Oceanic Plates

(2016) H. Kawakatsu et al.   SCIENCE

Imaging Canary Island hotspot material beneath the lithosphere of Morocco and southern Spain

(2015) Meghan S. Miller et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

The deep structure of the Iranian Plateau

(2015) K. Motaghi et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Petrogenesis of OIB-like basaltic volcanic rocks in a continental collision zone: Late Cenozoic magmatism of Eastern Iran

(2015) M. Kheirkhah et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Shear-Wave Velocity Tomography of the Lithosphere-Asthenosphere System beneath the Iranian Plateau

(2014) H. Rahimi et al.   BULLETIN OF THE SEISMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

The lithosphere–asthenosphere boundary and the tectonic and magmatic history of the northwestern United States

(2014) Emily Hopper et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

A geodetic plate motion and Global Strain Rate Model

(2014) Corné Kreemer et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Buildup of a dynamically supported orogenic plateau: Numerical modeling of the Zagros/Central Iran case study

(2014) T. François et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Dynamics of lithospheric thinning and mantle melting by edge-driven convection: Application to Moroccan Atlas mountains

(2014) Lars Kaislaniemi et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Presence of an intralithospheric discontinuity in the central and western North China Craton: Implications for destruction of the craton

(2014) L. Chen et al.   GEOLOGY

Sublithospheric small-scale convection—A mechanism for collision zone magmatism

(2014) L. Kaislaniemi et al.   GEOLOGY

Composition and structure of the lithospheric mantle beneath NE Iran: Constraints from mantle xenoliths

(2014) Ben-Xun Su et al.   LITHOS

Structural evolution of the Kopeh Dagh fold-and-thrust belt (NE Iran) and interactions with the South Caspian Sea Basin and Amu Darya Basin

(2014) Alexandra M.M. Robert et al.   MARINE AND PETROLEUM GEOLOGY

Present-day kinematics and fault slip rates in eastern Iran, derived from 11 years of GPS data

(2014) A. Walpersdorf et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SOLID EARTH

Global Positioning System constraints on the active tectonics of NE Iran and the South Caspian region

(2013) Z. Mousavi et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

The relationship between shear wave velocity, temperature, attenuation and viscosity in the shallow part of the mantle

(2013) Keith Priestley et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

A sharp cratonic lithosphere–asthenosphere boundary beneath the American Midwest and its relation to mantle flow

(2013) K. Foster et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

The record of the Late Palaeozoic active margin of the Palaeotethys in NE Iran: Constraints on the Cimmerian orogeny

(2013) S. Zanchetta et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

A detailed receiver function image of the lithosphere beneath the Kopeh-Dagh (Northeast Iran)

(2013) Fataneh Taghizadeh-Farahmand et al.   JOURNAL OF SEISMOLOGY

Eocene–Oligocene post-collisional magmatism in the Lut–Sistan region, eastern Iran: Magma genesis and tectonic implications

(2013) Kwan-Nang Pang et al.   LITHOS

Zircon U–Pb age constraints from Iran on the magmatic evolution related to Neotethyan subduction and Zagros orogeny

(2013) Han-Yi Chiu et al.   LITHOS

Seismic imaging of melt in a displaced Hawaiian plume

(2013) Catherine A. Rychert et al.   Nature Geoscience

Ponded melt at the boundary between the lithosphere and asthenosphere

(2013) Tatsuya Sakamaki et al.   Nature Geoscience

Age, geochemical characteristics and petrogenesis of Late Cenozoic intraplate alkali basalts in the Lut–Sistan region, eastern Iran

(2012) Kwan-Nang Pang et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

On the origin of the asthenosphere

(2012) Shun-ichiro Karato   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

High Sr/Y Magmas Reflect Arc Maturity, High Magmatic Water Content, and Porphyry Cu ± Mo ± Au Potential: Examples from the Tethyan Arcs of Central and Eastern Iran and Western Pakistan

(2012) Jeremy P. Richards et al.   ECONOMIC GEOLOGY

The Zagros core: Deformation of the continental lithospheric mantle

(2012) Keith Priestley et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Neogene block rotation in central Iran: Evidence from paleomagnetic data

(2012) M. Mattei et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

3-D lithospheric structure and regional/residual Bouguer anomalies in the Arabia-Eurasia collision (Iran)

(2012) I. Jiménez-Munt et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Petrochemistry of a xenolith-bearing Neogene alkali olivine basalt from northeastern Iran

(2012) Saeed Saadat et al.   JOURNAL OF VOLCANOLOGY AND GEOTHERMAL RESEARCH

Zircon U–Pb age and geochemical constraints on the origin of the Birjand ophiolite, Sistan suture zone, eastern Iran

(2012) Mohammad Hossein Zarrinkoub et al.   LITHOS

Insights on deep, accretionary subduction processes from the Sistan ophiolitic “mélange” (Eastern Iran)

(2012) S. Angiboust et al.   LITHOS

High resolution image of uppermost mantle beneath NE Iran continental collision zone

(2012) K. Motaghi et al.   PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS

The Gutenberg Discontinuity: Melt at the Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary

(2012) N. Schmerr   SCIENCE

Structural control on volcanism in intraplate post collisional settings: Late Cenozoic to Quaternary examples of Iran and Eastern Turkey

(2012) Esmaeil Shabanian et al.   TECTONICS

Seismic receiver functions and the lithosphere–asthenosphere boundary

(2012) Rainer Kind et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Building the Zagros collisional orogen: Timing, strain distribution and the dynamics of Arabia/Eurasia plate convergence

(2012) F. Mouthereau et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Zagros orogeny: a subduction-dominated process

(2011) P. AGARD et al.   GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE

Lithospheric structure beneath the Zagros collision zone resolved by non-linear teleseismic tomography

(2011) Z. Hossein Shomali et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Global-scalePwave tomography optimized for prediction of teleseismic and regional travel times for Middle East events: 2. Tomographic inversion

(2011) N. A. Simmons et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Crustal thickness variation across the northeast Iran continental collision zone from teleseismic converted waves

(2011) K. Motaghi et al.   JOURNAL OF SEISMOLOGY

Lithospheric Thinning Beneath Rifted Regions of Southern California

(2011) V. Lekic et al.   SCIENCE

Crustal and lithospheric structure of the Alborz Mountains, Iran, and surrounding areas from integrated geophysical modeling

(2011) Seyed-Hani Motavalli-Anbaran et al.   TECTONICS

A Paleogene extensional arc flare-up in Iran

(2011) Charles Verdel et al.   TECTONICS

The Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary

(2010) Karen M. Fischer et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

The lithosphere–asthenosphere boundary and cratonic lithospheric layering beneath Australia from Sp wave imaging

(2010) Heather A. Ford et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

A mechanism for low-extent melts at the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary

(2010) Christy B. Till et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Oroclinal bending, distributed thrust and strike-slip faulting, and the accommodation of Arabia-Eurasia convergence in NE Iran since the Oligocene

(2010) James Hollingsworth et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Right-lateral shear across Iran and kinematic change in the Arabia-Eurasia collision zone

(2010) Mark B. Allen et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

New constraints on upper-mantle S-velocity structure and crustal thickness of the Iranian plateau using partitioned waveform inversion

(2010) Navid Shad Manaman et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Joint inversion for three-dimensionalSvelocity mantle structure along the Tethyan margin

(2010) Sung-Joon Chang et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Petrological and geochemical constraints on the origin of the Nehbandan ophiolitic complex (eastern Iran): Implication for the evolution of the Sistan Ocean

(2010) Emilio Saccani et al.   LITHOS

Seismic evidence for a global low-velocity layer within the Earth’s upper mantle

(2010) Benoît Tauzin et al.   Nature Geoscience

Partial melt in the oceanic low velocity zone

(2010) Marc M. Hirschmann   PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS

Comparisons of the kinematics and deep structures of the Zagros and Himalaya and of the Iranian and Tibetan plateaus and geodynamic implications

(2010) Denis Hatzfeld et al.   REVIEWS OF GEOPHYSICS

Shear-wave splitting, lithospheric anisotropy, and mantle deformation beneath the Arabia–Eurasia collision zone in Iran

(2009) Ayoub Kaviani et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

High magmatic flux during Alpine-Himalayan collision: Constraints from the Kal-e-Kafi complex, central Iran

(2009) J. Ahmadian et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

Late Cenozoic volcanism and rates of active faulting in eastern Iran

(2009) R. T. Walker et al.   GEOPHYSICAL JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL

Dehydration melting of nominally anhydrous mantle: The primacy of partitioning

(2009) Marc M. Hirschmann et al.   PHYSICS OF THE EARTH AND PLANETARY INTERIORS

Localization of shear along a lithospheric strength discontinuity: Application of a continuous deformation model to the boundary between Tibet and the Tarim Basin

(2009) Katherine E. Dayem et al.   TECTONICS

Far-field lithospheric deformation in Tibet during continental collision

(2009) Katherine E. Dayem et al.   TECTONICS

The Cimmerian Orogeny in northern Iran: tectono-stratigraphic evidence from the foreland

(2009) Markus Wilmsen et al.   TERRA NOVA

The Anarak, Jandaq and Posht-e-Badam metamorphic complexes in central Iran: New geological data, relationships and tectonic implications

(2008) Sasan Bagheri et al.   TECTONOPHYSICS

Distinct lateral variation of lithospheric thickness in the Northeastern North China Craton

(2007) Ling Chen et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

State of stress induced by plate convergence and stress partitioning in northeastern Iran, as indicated by focal mechanisms of earthquakes

(2007) Behzad Zamani G. et al.   JOURNAL OF GEODYNAMICS