Document Type : Original Research Paper
Author
Assistant professor, Research Institute for Earth Sciences, Geological Survey of Iran, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
Different characteristics of the rock units and their stratigraphic relationships, as well as magmatic and metamorphic activities in the southern part of the Sanandaj-Sirjan Zone resulted in identification of different tectono-stratigraphic units based on their tectonic environments reflecting the opening and closure of the Neotethys Ocean in southern Iran. The major tectono-stratigraphic units identified in this study are as follows: sediments deposited in the aulacogen setting in southern part of the Central Iranian platform of Paleozoic to Middle Triassic age; Triassic volcanic rocks and turbiditic sediments; low-grade flysch-type sediments of Jurassic-Early Cretaceous age deposited in a forearc basin; Lower Cretaceous carbonate platform sediments; suture zone-related rocks containing ophiolite, radilolarite and glaucophane schists; Tertiary flysch-type sediments containing exotic blocks of Lower Cretaceous carbonate, ophiolite and of the Zagros Formations formed over the edge of High Zagros zone; retro-arc foreland sediments of Central Iran which unconformably overlie the deformed rocks of northeastern part of the area; and finally post-orogenic molasse-type sediments resulted from post uplift erosion of the Zagros orogeny, deposited in the internal and marginal parts of the southern Sanandaj-Sirjan zone.
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