TITLE:
Salt Tectonics in the Southern Iran
AUTHORS:
Azar Khodabakhshnezhad, Mehran Arian
KEYWORDS:
Salt, Tectonics, Zagros, Persian Gulf, Iran
JOURNAL NAME:
International Journal of Geosciences,
Vol.7 No.3,
March
28,
2016
ABSTRACT: Based on geographic
distribution and geological setting of salt plugs in southern Iran, three salt
diapiric provinces have been distinguished. These provinces include the Hormuz,
Shiraz-Kazerun and Nyriz-Jahrum sub-basins. There are more than hundred salt
plugs which they have been formed and developed in the southern margin of Iran.
The salt structures that originated from Hormuz formation in these areas have
been restricted and separated from each other for the first time in this paper.
Salt diapirism of these provinces has been triggered earlier by Halokinesis in
the Zagros and Persian Gulf basins, but it has affected later by tectonic
forces, because orientation, shape and position of salt plugs have been
followed from convergence regime (especially in the Zagros hinterland). In the
other hand, based on our results from salt plugs in Persian Gulf foreland basin
and the Zagros hinterland, Halokinesis triggers has been affected more than
Halotectonic forces.