Zagros ophiolites lie between the Zagros fold-and-thrust belt, an accretionary prism that formed by off-scraping of Arabian Plate sediments, and the Urumieh-Dokhtar arc, an Andean-type arc that is waning as the region transitions from subduction to collision. The parallel alignment of Zagros ...
assumed to be surface soil layer collapses, may have greater fluidity. This could make it more difficult to stop soil mass movement. However, it is difficult to determine parameters related to the cessation of soil mass movement because the depositional area of the soil mass during this event i...