Document Type : Original Research Paper

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1 Department of Geology, Shiraz branch, Islamic Azad University, Shiraz, Iran

2 2Earth Sciences Research Institute, Geological Survey of Iran,Tehran, Iran

3 3Geological Survey of Iran, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

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The brittle tectonic history expresses different tectonic events in the Zagros Simply Folded Belt. Consequence of Mesozoic extension, rifting and the shortening derived from the Cenozoic Eurasia – Arabia collision. In order to reconstruction the ancient tensions in the Mesozoic deposits in the east and south-east of Shiraz, geometry and kinematics of the faults data simultaneously with sedimentation was investigated using the inversion method, to evaluated rifting time, the former of Neo-Tethys and its collisions in Cretaceous and Paleocene. In this regard 21 stations have been exposed in Khanekat to Pabdeh Formations. The resulted geometry and kinematics of the faults data were calculated situation main tension axes (σ1, σ2, σ3 ), tension ellipsoid figure or ratio of difference (ɸ). The results are as follows: from Triassic to upper Cretaceous (Mastrichtian) in Khanekat,Surmeh, Fahlian, Darian, Sarvak, Ilam, Gurpi, Tarbur Formations and Ghorban Member; extensional tectonic regime was dominant and having NE-SW direction (N052°) but in Pabdeh Formation with Paleocene age, tectonic regime has changed into compression with NE-SW compressional stress direction(N045°). So it was concluded that in simply folded Zagros of interior Fars, time of rifting and the forming of Neo-Tethyan basin was Triassic or older (Permian) with NE-SW extensional direction. The beginning of compressional tectonic regime with the same direction has been in Paleocene.

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