Author(s)

Faranak Feizi^1*, Mehran Arian², Artin Arian³

¹Department of Mining Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, South Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
²Department of Geology, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
³Department of School Education, One Territory of Education Office, Ministry of Education, Tehran, Iran.

The Napag is the biggest Mud Volcano at Makran in Iran. The main aim of this research is the investigation of geologic setting and geographic situation of Napag Mud Volcano as a well-known mud diapir at Makran on the south eastern margin of Iran. The Napag Mud Volcano has been formed during quaternary of as a conical hill on the flat plain in coastal region Oman Sea. There are badlands area and several mud volcanoes that they have been triggered by longitudinal normal faults. This normal faults have been developed in neotectonic regime by the roll-back of oceanic lithosphere (beneath of Oman Sea). Finally, the main characteristics of the Napag mud diapir are presented.

Napag, Mud, Volcano, Makran, Iran

Feizi, F. , Arian, M. and Arian, A. (2015) Mud Diapirism on the Makran, Iran: Case Study on the Napag Mud Volcano. Open Journal of Geology, 5, 300-308. doi: 10.4236/ojg.2015.55027.