Dataset
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and GPS data, suggesting that the tectonic processes responsible for the bending of northern Iran mountain chains are no longer active and that the westward motion of the South Caspian basin, and therefore the initiation of opposite strike-slip motion along the Ashk-Abad and Shahrud faults,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
Metadata
MSL enriched sub domains
paleomagnetism
Resource Type
Source
Source publisher
| GFZ Data Services |
DOI
| 10.5880/fidgeo.2022.046 |
Creators
| Mattei, Massimo |
| Personal |
| Department of Science, Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy |
| Visconti, Andrea Leonardo |
| Personal |
| Department of Science, Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy |
| Cifelli, Francesca |
| Personal |
| Department of Science, Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy |
| Nozaem, Reza |
| Personal |
| School of Geology, College of Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran |
| Winkler, Aldo |
| Personal |
| National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Via di Vigna Murata 605, 00143 Rome, Italy |
| Sagnotti, Leonardo |
| Personal |
| National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Via di Vigna Murata 605, 00143 Rome, Italy |
Contributors
| Mattei, Massimo |
| Personal |
| Department of Science, Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy |
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
References
Dates
| Issued | 2023 |
Language
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Funding References
| Funder Name | Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca |
| Funder Identifier | https://doi.org/10.13039/501100003407 |
| Award Number | 20158A9CBM_002 |
Rights
| Name | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International |
| URI | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode |
| Identifier | cc-by-4.0 |
| Identifier Scheme | SPDX |
| Scheme URI | https://spdx.org/licenses/ |
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