This paper reviews the late paleozoic and Mesozoic tectonics of the Middle Eastern Tethysides in terms of a new tectonic model, whose main tenet is to regard the late paleozoic to late triassic basement of the pontide/ Dzirula/ Adzharia- Trialeti/ Artvin- Karabagh/ Sanandaj- Sirjan zones Collectively as a NNE- facing cimmeride magmatic arc, called the Podataksasi zone whose Jurassic- cretaceous movement with respect to Eurasia Caused much of the coeval deformation in Transcaucasia, southern USSR E of the Caspian Sea, and in Iran. The model suggests that the northern margin of Gondwana- land in the Middle East was not a passive, Atlantic- type Continental margin during the late paleozoic and the early and middle Triassic, but instead was an active, Pacific- type margin, formed by the Gondwania- ward subduction of the floor of Paleo- Tethys. Successive calving of island arcs of this margin formed the Neo- Tethyan Oceans. Very large magnitude strike slip faults were responsible for disrupting the post- collisional geometry of the Middle Eastern cimmerides, this disruption was largely responsible for the obliteration of the podataksasi zone.
Sheikholeslami, M. R. (1994). Late Paleozoic and Mesozoic Tectonic Evolution of the Middle Eastern Tethysides: Implications for the Paleozoic Geodynamics of the Tethyan Realm. Scientific Quarterly Journal of Geosciences, 3(12), 44-63.
MLA
Sheikholeslami, M. R. "Late Paleozoic and Mesozoic Tectonic Evolution of the Middle Eastern Tethysides: Implications for the Paleozoic Geodynamics of the Tethyan Realm", Scientific Quarterly Journal of Geosciences, 3, 12, 1994, 44-63.
HARVARD
Sheikholeslami M. R. (1994). 'Late Paleozoic and Mesozoic Tectonic Evolution of the Middle Eastern Tethysides: Implications for the Paleozoic Geodynamics of the Tethyan Realm', Scientific Quarterly Journal of Geosciences, 3(12), pp. 44-63.
CHICAGO
M. R. Sheikholeslami, "Late Paleozoic and Mesozoic Tectonic Evolution of the Middle Eastern Tethysides: Implications for the Paleozoic Geodynamics of the Tethyan Realm," Scientific Quarterly Journal of Geosciences, 3 12 (1994): 44-63,
VANCOUVER
Sheikholeslami M. R. Late Paleozoic and Mesozoic Tectonic Evolution of the Middle Eastern Tethysides: Implications for the Paleozoic Geodynamics of the Tethyan Realm. Geoscience. 1994;3(12):44-63 (In Persian).
