The Miocene subsidence pattern of the NW Zagros foreland basin reflects the southeastward propagating tear of the Neotethys slab

Koshnaw, Renas I.; Kley, Jonas; Schlunegger, Fritz

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/se-15-1365-2024

Articles | Volume 15, issue 11

https://doi.org/10.5194/se-15-1365-2024

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https://doi.org/10.5194/se-15-1365-2024

© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 11

Research article

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25 Nov 2024

Research article |

| 25 Nov 2024

The Miocene subsidence pattern of the NW Zagros foreland basin reflects the southeastward propagating tear of the Neotethys slab

Renas I. Koshnaw, Jonas Kley, and Fritz Schlunegger

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/se-15-1365-2024-supplement

Data sets

Koshnaw_etal_Supplementary_Data_SolidEarth_2024, V1 Renas I. Koshnaw https://doi.org/10.17632/h24t4r566s.1

Short summary

This study investigates how Earth's geodynamic processes shaped the NW Zagros mountain belt in the Middle East. The Neogene foreland basin underwent subsidence due to the load of the surface and the subducting slab and was later influenced by the Neotethys horizontal slab tearing and the associated asthenospheric mantle flow during the Late Miocene and onward.