A hilly area surrounding the Zagros Mountains in Iraq is being pulled into the Earth. Understanding why could help predict ...

An international team of researchers from the University of Göttingen found a massive rift extending 1,500 kilometers beneath ...

Deep beneath the Zagros Mountains, the Neotethys plate is tearing apart, dragging Earth's crust downward. This shift may ...

The ocean plate was once the seafloor of Neotethys — an ocean that formed when the supercontinent Pangaea broke up into a ...

Researchers at the University of Göttingen discovered that the Neotethys oceanic plate beneath the Arabian and Eurasian ...

This is a satellite view of the Zagros mountain belt in western Iran. The range forms part of the most extensive belt of water-soluble gypsum on Earth, stretching from Oman to Pakistan ...

An international research team led by the University of Göttingen has investigated the influence of the forces exerted by the ...

Deep beneath the Earth's surface, the Neotethys oceanic plate is breaking off horizontally with a tear progressively lengthening from Turkey to Iran.

A research team is investigating the influence of the Zagros Mountains on the bending of Earth's surface. A team of ...

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 ...

However, the plate is also tearing apart below the Zagros Mountains in Iraq as it plunges downward, taking some of the load off the overlying crust. This tearing process has likely already ...

Oceanic plate between Arabian and Eurasian continental plates is breaking away Research team investigates influence of Zagros Mountains on bending Earth's surface Date: January 29, 2025 Source ...