Fold and Thrust Belts: Structural Style, Evolution and Exploration
The outer parts of collision mountain belts are commonly represented by fold and thrust belts. Major advances in understanding these tectonic settings have arisen from regional studies that integrate diverse geological information in quests to find and produce hydrocarbons. Drilling has provided tests of subsurface forecasts, challenging interpretation strategies and structural models. This volume contains 19 papers that illustrate a diversity of methods and approaches together with case studies from Europe, the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region. Collectively they show that appreciating diversity is key for developing better interpretations of complex geological structures in the subsurface – endeavours that span applications beyond the development of hydrocarbons.
Remote sensing applications in the Fars Region of the Zagros Mountains of Iran
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Published:April 14, 2020
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Jorge Ginés, Rowan Edwards, Tina Lohr, Hayley Larkin, Rachel Holley, 2020. "Remote sensing applications in the Fars Region of the Zagros Mountains of Iran", Fold and Thrust Belts: Structural Style, Evolution and Exploration, J. A. Hammerstein, R. Di Cuia, M. A. Cottam, G. Zamora, R. W. H. Butler
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Abstract
The Zagros Mountains in Iran are an active fold-and-thrust belt that contains world-class examples of folding and salt tectonics. The Fars Region is an excellent location for testing remote sensing methods and applications of satellite data due to its dry climate and superb exposure of geological features. Recent advances in satellite technology and image acquisition have resulted in high-quality global datasets at increasing resolution that provide a highly valuable source of data for structural analysis of fold-and-thrust belts. Oblique lineaments like the Razak Line in eastern Fars can be identified by changes in the dimensions of anticlines, presence of deflected folds, offsets in the alignment of structures, location of anticlinal plunges and exposures of salt. Drainage analysis can show propagation and coalescence of anticlines. We review several methods using optical data, digital elevation models and interferometric synthetic-aperture radar. We integrate those methods and generate detailed geological maps, structural cross-sections, identify structural steps and hidden basement features, and compare to seismological data and their effect on the exposed geology.
- anticlines
- Asia
- basement
- Cenozoic
- cross sections
- digital terrain models
- earthquakes
- Fars Iran
- focal mechanism
- fold and thrust belts
- folds
- interferometry
- Iran
- Mesozoic
- Middle East
- Paleozoic
- remote sensing
- satellite methods
- sedimentary cover
- structural analysis
- style
- tectonic elements
- tectonics
- topography
- Zagros