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Data Publication

Paleomagnetic data from Kope-Dagh, Northeast Iran

Mattei, Massimo | Visconti, Andrea Leonardo | Cifelli, Francesca | Nozaem, Reza | Winkler, Aldo | Sagnotti, Leonardo

GFZ Data Services

(2023)

Descriptions

This dataset includes paleomagnetic data from 70 sampling sites, collected in northeastern Iran during two campaigns carried out in August 2016 and September 2017 (Table 1). The data are supplement to Mattei et al. (2019). Data allow to reconstruct the rotation history of the outer margin of the Eurasia-Arabia collision area represented by the Ala-Dagh, Binalud and Kopeh-Dagh mountain belts. The sampled formations are red beds units from the Lower Cretaceous Shurijeh Fm. and from the Middle-Upper Miocene Upper Red Fm (URF). Paleomagnetic results from all the sampled areas show a homogeneous amount of clockwise (CW) rotations measured in the above-mentioned Formations. These paleomagnetic results suggest that the oroclinal bending process that caused the curvature of Alborz mountain belt in north Iran after the Middle-Late Miocene, also extended to the Ala-Dagh, Binalud and Kopeh-Dagh mountain belts, at the north-eastern border of the Arabia-Eurasia deforming zone. This pattern of vertical axis rotations is inconsistent with the present-day kinematics of the northern Iranian blocks as described by seismicity and GPS data, suggesting that the tectonic processes responsible for the bending of northern Iran mountain chains are no longer active and that the westward motion of the South Caspian basin, and therefore the initiation of opposite strike-slip motion along the Ashk-Abad and Shahrud faults, occurred very recently (∼2My ago).

Keywords


Originally assigned keywords
northeast Iran
Kope-Dagh
Upper Red Formation
Shurijeh Formation
natural remanent magnetisation
paleomagnetic analyses
tectonic process
geologic process
paleomagnetism
rock magnetism
paleomagnetic and magnetic data
EPOS
multi-scale laboratories
EARTH SCIENCE > SOLID EARTH > GEOMAGNETISM > PALEOMAGNETISM
EARTH SCIENCE > SOLID EARTH > TECTONICS
EARTH SCIENCE > SOLID EARTH > TECTONICS > NEOTECTONICS
EARTH SCIENCE > SOLID EARTH > TECTONICS > PLATE TECTONICS > CRUSTAL MOTION > CRUSTAL MOTION RATE

Corresponding MSL vocabulary keywords
natural remanent magnetisation (NRM)

MSL enriched keywords
Measured property
remanent magnetisation
natural remanent magnetisation (NRM)
Phanerozoic
Cenozoic
Neogene
Miocene
Mesozoic
Cretaceous

MSL enriched sub domains i

paleomagnetism

Source

https://dataservices.gfz-potsdam.de/panmetaworks/showshort.php?id=ef590786-938c-11ed-95b8-f851ad6d1e4b

Source publisher

GFZ Data Services


DOI

10.5880/fidgeo.2022.046


Creators

Mattei, Massimo

Department of Science, Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy

ORCID:

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7800-8764

Visconti, Andrea Leonardo

Department of Science, Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy

ScopusID:

57202158846

Cifelli, Francesca

Department of Science, Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy

ORCID:

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6337-8786

Nozaem, Reza

School of Geology, College of Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

ScopusID:

55572710000

Winkler, Aldo

National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Via di Vigna Murata 605, 00143 Rome, Italy

ORCID:

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0653-0059

Sagnotti, Leonardo

National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Via di Vigna Murata 605, 00143 Rome, Italy

ORCID:

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3944-201X


Contributors

Mattei, Massimo

ContactPerson

Department of Science, Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy


References

10.1098/rspa.1953.0064

10.1111/j.1365-246x.1980.tb02601.x

Chadima, M., and F. Hrouda. "Remasoft 3.0 a user-friendly paleomagnetic data browser and analyzer." Travaux Géophysiques 27 (2006): 20-21.

10.1016/j.gr.2019.01.018


Citation

Mattei, M., Visconti, A. L., Cifelli, F., Nozaem, R., Winkler, A., & Sagnotti, L. (2023). Paleomagnetic data from Kope-Dagh, Northeast Iran [Data set]. GFZ Data Services. https://doi.org/10.5880/FIDGEO.2022.046


Dates

Issued:

2023


Funding References

Funder name: Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca

Funder identifier: https://doi.org/10.13039/501100003407

Funder identifier type: Crossref Funder ID

Award number: 20158A9CBM_002


Rights

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International


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