Ramp-flat basement structures of the Zagros Mountains inferred from co-seismic slip and afterslip of the 2017 Mw7.3 Darbandikhan, Iran/Iraq earthquake
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DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2018.05.036
Abstract: Abstract The November 2017 Mw7.3 Darbandikhan earthquake in the northern Zagros Mountains of Iran/Iraq was the largest instrumentally recorded earthquake to date in this mountain belt. Despite extensive research in this region, the nature of… read more here.
Keywords: ramp flat; zagros mountains; darbandikhan earthquake; basement ... See more keywords
Early Upper Palaeolithic occupation at Gelimgoush cave, Kermanshah; West-Central Zagros mountains of Iran
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.103050
Abstract: Abstract The timing and dispersal routes of Homo sapiens (H. sapiens) into the Iranian Plateau have always been a matter of debate in the recent years. Current studies on the Upper Palaeolithic period of the… read more here.
Keywords: zagros mountains; west central; central zagros; upper palaeolithic ... See more keywords
Herded and hunted goat genomes from the dawn of domestication in the Zagros Mountains
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DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2100901118
Abstract: Significance Goats were among the first domestic animals and today are an important livestock species; archaeozoological evidence from the Zagros Mountains of western Iran indicates that goats were managed by the late ninth/early eighth millennium.… read more here.
Keywords: ganj dareh; zagros mountains; domestication; zagros ... See more keywords
The Zagros Mountains acting as a natural barrier to gene flow in the Middle East: more evidence from the evolutionary history of spiny-tailed lizards (Uromasticinae: Saara)
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DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa113
Abstract: We investigated the phylogeographic structure of the genus Saara and studied whether the Zagros Mountain ranges influence the gene flow and dispersal at the landscape scale between the Iranian Saara species, including S. asmussi in… read more here.
Keywords: barrier gene; gene flow; zagros mountains;
Donysia avia (Primulaceae), a new species from Zagros Mountains, Iran
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DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.511.3.9
Abstract: Dionysia avia, a new species from Esfahan province of Iran, is described, illustrated and compared with similar and related species. The new species is similar to D. bachtiarica and D. lamingtonii, but differs from the… read more here.
Keywords: species zagros; avia primulaceae; zagros mountains; donysia avia ... See more keywords