An Ancient Oceanic Plate is being torn apart beneath the Zagros Mountains

Satellite image of Salt Glaciers in the Zagros Mountains, USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center; Link


Oceanic plate between Arabian and Eurasian continental plates is breaking away (Press Release, Georg-August-Universität-Göttingen; 28 January 2025)
https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/135974.html?id=7703


Featured Research Article


The Miocene subsidence pattern of the NW Zagros foreland basin reflects the southeastward propagating tear of the Neotethys slab (KOSHNAW et al., 2024)


Zagros Folded Zone, Joshua DOUBEK; CC BY-SA 3.0, Link


Zagros Mountains Fold Thrust Belt (FTB), Mikenorton; CC BY-SA 3.0, Link


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