the zagros mountains of iran are an example of paleozoic.
the zagros mountains of iran is an example of?
paleozoic
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the zagros mountains (; ; lurish: کۆیَل زاگروس) are a long mountain range in iran, kurdistan and southeastern turkey. this mountain range has a total length of . the zagros mountain range begins in northwestern iran and roughly follows iran's western border, while covering much of southeastern turkey and northeastern iraq. from this border region, the range roughly follows iran's coast on the persian gulf. it spans the whole length of the western and southwestern iranian plateau, ending at the strait of hormuz. the highest point is mount dena, at .





























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zagros mountains
this zone extends from bandar abbas in the south to kermanshah in the northwest and continues through to iraq. zagros is in fact the northeastern edge of the arabian plate. some important features of zagros include: absence of magmatic and metamorphic events after triassic, and low abundance of the outcrops of paleozoic rocks. structurally, it consists of large anticlines and small synclines and continuous marine sedimentation from the carboniferous to the miocene. on the whole, a sequence of precambrian to pliocene rocks about 8-10 kilometres in thickness has undergone folding from the miocene to the recent time in the zagros mountains. the zagros fold and thrust belt was formed by the collision of two tectonic plates — the iranian plate and the arabian plate. this collision primarily happened during the miocene and folded the entire rocks that had been deposited from the carboniferous to the miocene in the geosyncline in front of the iranian plate. the process of collision continues to the present and as the arabian plate is being pushed against the iranian plate, the zagros mountains and the iranian plateau are getting higher and higher. the zagros mountain range, itself, has a totally sedimentary origin and is made primarily of limestone. in the elevated zagros or the higher zagros, the paleozoic rocks could be found mainly in the upper and higher sections of the peaks of the zagros mountains along the zagros main fault. on the both sides of this fault, there are mesozoic rocks, a combination of triassic and jurassic rocks that are surrounded by cretaceous rocks on the both sides. the folded zagros (the mountains south of the elevated zagros and almost parallel to the main zagros fault) is formed mainly of tertiary rocks, with the paleogene rocks south of the cretaceous rocks and then the neogene rocks south of the paleogene rocks.
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