Open Journal of Geology

Volume 5, Issue 4 (April 2015)

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Folding Mechanism in the Asmari Anticline, Zagros, Iran

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DOI: 10.4236/ojg.2015.54018    3,280 Downloads   4,591 Views  Citations

ABSTRACT

Asmari anticline is a NW-SE fold in the Dezful Embayment sub-basin of Zagros. Fars group (Late Moicene-Quaternary) is cropping out in the cores of anticlines in this area, but Pabdeh and Asmari formations (Oligocene-Early Miocene) have cropped out only in Asmari anticline in the Dezful Embayment. Therefore, it has formed a unique exposure for above formations. In order to this situation, folding mechanism of Asmari anticline has investigated in this research. According to our results, Asmari anticline has two mechanisms: flexural-slip in post-Cretaceous sequences (Khami-Quaternary) and fault-bend folding in pre-Cretaceous sequences. So, there is a hybrid folding mechanism that has introduced for the first time in this paper.

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Khodabakhshnezhad, A. , Arian, M. and Pourkemani, M. (2015) Folding Mechanism in the Asmari Anticline, Zagros, Iran. Open Journal of Geology, 5, 197-208. doi: 10.4236/ojg.2015.54018.

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