Iran’s Folded Rocks Reveal Historical Tectonic Energy at Asia-Europe Boundary

The deformed rocks of Iran are shaped as a result of robust mountain ridges and valleys within the Larger Caucasus mountain vary, southwest of the Caspian Sea. Between 10 million and 50 million years in the past, its development was marked by sedimentary layers crushed in the course of the first affect between the Arabian and Eurasian tectonic plates. The vividly colored rocks produced by the sedimentary layers gathered over millennia vary in tone from terracotta to greenish to bluish. Utilizing satellite tv for pc footage, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Earth Observatory have proven how the panorama tended to cluster over time.

One picture depicts the completely different strata layers, vegetation, and the Zanjan-Tabriz freeway linking Tehran and Poznan. Curiously, one other picture is of the Qezel Ozan River, which supplies agricultural water within the area. The area remains to be converging, and recent analysis suggests {that a} slab of oceanic crust is being shredded beneath Iraq and Iran.

Iran’s Folded Rocks Expose Arabia-Eurasia Tectonic Collision

In response to reported NASA consultants, a tectonic conflict between the continents — often called Eurasia and Arabia — crunched these vividly hued strata of rock into huge folds. Positioned southwest of the Caspian Sea, Iran’s folded rocks are mountain ridges and valleys from the Larger Caucasus mountain chain. The disrupted rocks are fabricated from sedimentary layers that had been tilted and folded after the primary collision between the Arabian and Eurasian tectonic plates, which is estimated to have occurred 10 to 50 million years in the past.

Beneath Iraq and Iran, a few of the oceanic crust between the Arabian and Eurasian plates is breaking up, in line with present analysis, which ends up in an anomalous silt accumulation on the floor. The complexity of the Earth’s floor and the Qezel Ozan River, mixed with the Neotethys oceanic plate pulling the realm down, account for this.