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Tectonic evolution, collision, and seismicity of southwest Asia: an introduction / Rasoul Sorkhabi -- Manuel Berberian: an appreciation and bibliography of his lifelong contribution to geoscience / Rasoul Sorkhabi -- Part 1. Zagros Orogen and Iranian Plateau -- Development of geological perceptions and explorations on the Iranian Plateau: from Zoroastrian cosmogony to plate tectonics (ca. 1200 BCE to 1980 CE) / Manuel Berberian -- Tehran: an earthquake time bomb / Manuel Berberian and Robert S. Yeats -- Archaeological and architectural evidence of historical seismic activity along the Zāgros Main Recent fault at Borujerd (western Iranian Plateau); the 1316 C.E. earthquake / Manuel Berberian, Mohammad Moqaddas, and Ahmad Kabiri -- Kinematics of the Great Kavir fault inferred from a structural analysis of the Pees Kuh Complex, Jandaq area, central Iran / Sasan Bagheri, Razieh Madhanifard, and Foruzan Zahabi -- Mid-ocean-ridge to suprasubduction geochemical transition in the hypabyssal and extrusive sequences of major Upper Cretaceous ophiolites of Iran / Morteza Khalatbari Jafari, Hassan A. Babaie, and Mohammad Elyas Moslempour -- The geodynamic significance of the correlation of the Khoy ophiolites in northwest Iran with ophiolites in southeast Turkey / Morteza Khalatbari Jafari and Hassan A. Babaie -- Tectono-stratigraphic evidence for the opening and closure of the Neotethys Ocean in the southern Sanandaj-Sirjan zone, Iran / Mohammad Reza Sheikholeslami -- The lower-middle Cambrian transition and the Sauk I-II unconformable boundary in Iran, a record of late early Cambrian global Hawke Bay regression / Yaghoob Lasemi and Hadi Amin-Rasouli -- Biostratigraphy of acritarchs and chitinozoans in Ordovician strata from the Fazel Abad area, southeastern Caspian Sea, Alborz Mountains, northern Iran: stratigraphic and paleographic implications / Mohammad Ghavidel-Syooki -- Controls on the sequence stratigraphic architecture of the Neogene Zagros foreland basin / Mortaza Pirouz, Guy Simpson, Sebastien Castelltort, Georges Gorin, and Abbas Bahroudi -- Size distribution and controls of landslides in the Zagros mountain belt (Iran) / Neda Ghazipour and Guy Simpson -- Part 2. The Caucasus Region and Anatolia -- Aspects of the seismotectonics of Armenia: new data and reanalysis / Arkadi Karakhanyan, A. Arakelyan, A. Avagyan, and T. Sadoyan -- Archaeoseismological studies at the Pambak-Sevan-Syunik fault system, Armenia / Arkadi Karakhanyan, R. Badalyan, A. Harutyunian, A. Avagyan, H. Philip, V. Davtyan, G. Alaverdyan, K. Makaryan, and M. Martirosyan -- Tethyan evolution and continental collision in Georgia / Shota Adamia, A. Chabukiani, T. Chkotua, O. Enukidze, N. Sadradze, and G. Zakariadze -- Postcollisional tectonics and seismicity of Georgia / Shota Adamia, V. Alania, N. Tsereteli, O. Varazanashvili, N. Sadradze, N. Lursmanashvili, and A. Gventsadze -- The evolution of the Intra-Pontide suture: implications of the discovery of late Cretaceous-early Tertiary mélanges / Kenan Akbayram, A.M. Celâl Şengör, and Ercan Özcan -- New synthesis of the Izmir-Ankara-Erzincan suture zone and the Ankara mélange in northern Anatolia based on new geochemcial and geochronological constraints / Ender Sarıfakıoğlu, Yildirim Dilek, and Mustafa Sevin. |
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"This volume, published in honor of Manuel Berberian, brings together a wealth of new data, analyses, and frontier research on the geologic evolution, collisional tectonics, active deformation, and historical and modern seismicity of key areas in southwest Asia"--Provided by publisher. |
