TY  - JOUR
A1  - Sheikholeslami, Mohammad Reza
A1  - Oberhänsli, Roland
A1  - Ghassemi, Mohammad R.
T1  - Transpression tectonics in the eastern Binalud Mountains, northeast Iran; Insight from finite strain analysis, vorticity and Ar-40/Ar-39 dating
JF  - Journal of Asian earth sciences
N2  - Different tectonic episodes from Late Triassic to recent times in the eastern Binalud Mountains have resulted from convergence and transpression between the Turan and Central Iran plates. Heterogeneous deformation and variable portions of pure and simple shear, demonstrated by finite strain and vorticity analysis in the Mashhad metamorphic rocks, indicate strain partitioning during the first tectonic episode. Modern strain partitioning is characterized by reverse and strike-slip faulting along the Neyshabur fault system and Shandiz fault zone in the southern and northern flanks of the eastern Binalud, respectively. Time-transgressive regional deformation migrated from the hinterland of the belt into the foreland basin, from northeast to the southwest of the mountains. Different generations of deformation resulted in obliteration of the subduction-related accretionary wedge, and growth of an orogenic wedge resulted from collision between the Central Iran and Turan plates.
KW  - Transpression
KW  - Binalud Mountains
KW  - Deformation
KW  - Orogenic wedge
KW  - Northeast Iran
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2019.04.014
SN  - 1367-9120
SN  - 1878-5786
VL  - 179
SP  - 219
EP  - 237
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Oxford
ER  -