@article{MesbahiMohajjelOberhaenslietal.2017,
  author    = {Mesbahi, Fatemeh and Mohajjel, Mohammad and Oberh{\"a}nsli, Roland and Moazzen, Mohsen},
  title     = {The mafic rocks along the North Tabriz Fault, possible remnants of Neo-Tethys oceanic crust in NW Iran},
  series = {Geopersia},
  volume    = {7},
  journal   = {Geopersia},
  publisher = {Graduate Faculty of Environment, University of Theran},
  address   = {Tehran},
  issn      = {2228-7817},
  doi       = {10.22059/geope.2017.232747.648323},
  pages     = {301 -- 311},
  year      = {2017},
  abstract  = {The North Tabriz Fault is seismologically an active fault with current right lateral strike-slip movements. Restricted mafic to intermediate Fate Cretaceous igneous rocks are exposed along the North Tabriz Fault. Whole rock and clinopyroxene phenocrysts geochemistry were studied in order to characterize the petrogenesis of these mafic rocks and their possible relation to an oceanic crust. The results indicate a tholeiitic parental magma that formed in an evolved mid-ocean ridge tectonic setting similar to the Iceland mid-Atlantic ridge basalts. The ocean floor basalt characteristics give evidence of an oceanic crust along the North Tabriz Fault. Therefore, the trend of the North Tabriz Fault more likely marks a suture zone related to the closure of a branch of the Neo-Tethys Ocean in the NW Iran. This fault, in addition to the Caucasus and Zagros suture zones, compensates an important part of the convergence between the Arabian and Eurasian plates resulting from the Red Sea divergence. It is concluded that the North Tabriz Fault appears to be possible southeastern continuation of the North Anatolian suture zone.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{BehyariMohajjelSobeletal.2017,
  author    = {Behyari, Mahdi and Mohajjel, Mohammad and Sobel, Edward and Rezaeian, Mahnaz and Moayyed, Mohssen and Schmidt, Alexander},
  title     = {Analysis of exhumation history in Misho Mountains, NW Iran},
  series = {Neues Jahrbuch f{\"u}r Geologie und Pal{\"a}ontologie : merged with Neues Jahrbuch f{\"u}r Geol. und Pal{\"a}ont. Monatshefte". Abhandlungen},
  volume    = {283},
  journal   = {Neues Jahrbuch f{\"u}r Geologie und Pal{\"a}ontologie : merged with Neues Jahrbuch f{\"u}r Geol. und Pal{\"a}ont. Monatshefte". Abhandlungen},
  number    = {3},
  publisher = {Schweizerbart},
  address   = {Stuttgart},
  issn      = {0077-7749},
  doi       = {10.1127/njgpa/2017/0642},
  pages     = {291 -- 308},
  year      = {2017},
  abstract  = {The Misho complex in Northwest Iran is a prominent topographic massif bounded by well known active faults. Our new structural analysis of this area indicates that faulting has important role in the exhumation of this complex. The conjugate orientation of the North and South Misho Faults caused uplift in the Misho and exhumation of the Precambrian crystalline basement. Our structural and stratigraphic data shows that rapid uplift could have been initiation since the 21-22 Ma and exhumation rate was about 0.16 to 0.24 km/Ma. To refine this age, we performed U/Pb analysis of detrital zircon from the Upper Red Formation using LA-ICP-MS. We conducted AFT analysis on 6 basement samples from the hanging wall and 1 sample from the Upper Red Formation in the footwall NMF. Uplift in the hanging wall of NMF led to resting of sample 916 marl. This geochronologic and thermochronologic data shows that exhumation in the MC is diachronously along strike and affected by faults. The phase of exhumation is documented in the study area and entire Iranian plateau is related to the final closure of the Neo-Tethys and northward motion of the Arabian Plate.},
  language  = {en}
}