Journal of Petroleum Geology, (2001)
The significance of strike-slip faulting in the basement of the
Zagros fold and thrust belt
Khaled Hessami, HA Koyi, CJ Talbot
Abstract
Lateral offsets in the pattern of seismicity along the Zagros fold and thrust belt indicate that
transverse faults segmenting the Arabian basement are active deep-seated strike-slip faults.
The dominant NW-SE trending features of the belt have undergone repeated horizontal
displacements along these transverse faults. These reactivated basement faults, which are
inherited from the Pan-African construction phase, controlled both deposition of the
Phanerozoic cover before Tertiary-Recent deformation of the Zagros and probably the ...