Iraq is sinking. Or, to be exact, the region surrounding the Zagros Mountains in the country’s north is. A team of ...

The Zagros Mountains, stretching over 1,500 kilometers from eastern Turkey to southeastern Iran towards the Gulf of Oman, are ...

This type of turbulence is generally caused when strong winds hit a mountain range (mostly perpendicular) and their flow is ...

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

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 ...

TEHRAN - The tourism directorates of Kermanshah, Lorestan, and Hamedan provinces have initiated the first step in seeking ...

Deep beneath Iraq, a long-lost oceanic plate is breaking apart, causing shifts that stretch from southeastern Turkey to ...

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

An ancient oceanic plate under modern-day Iraq is breaking off horizontally, researchers have shown in a new study. This huge underground tear, stretching from southeast Turkey to northwest Iran, is ...

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