crustal scale imaging across the arabia- eurasia collision zone

Continental collision along the zagros suture occurred due to convergence of the arabian plate and the eurasia (figure 1) initiated at ∼35 ma (e.g., mouthereau et al., 2012, and references therein) with the main phase at ~27 ma (e.g., madanipour et al., 2013; egan et al., 2009). here, we study the crustal structure by focusing on both the geometry and thechanges in anisotropic properties of the crust across the china-iran profile (triangles in figure 1).