A long-lost oceanic plate is diving deep into the mantle, dragging down the crust above, researchers say. However, the plate is also tearing apart below the Zagros Mountains in Iraq as it plunges ...
An international research team led by the University of Göttingen has investigated the influence of the forces exerted by the Zagros Mountains in the Kurdistan region of Iraq on how much the ...
As Neotethys closed up, the oceanic crust went under the Eurasian continent. The continental portion of the Arabian plate, which underpins modern-day Iraq and Saudi Arabia, was dragged behind ...
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