| In the north of the area towards the Main Zagros Reverse Fault, thrusts are dominant. |
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| The Oman Fault separates the Zagros fold and thrust belt from the Makran accretionary wedge in the east. |
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| Several other interruptions within the Cenozoic stratigraphy of the Zagros region have long been attributed to epirogeny. |
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| In the Kurdish Country of the northeast, the land rises steeply into the Zagros Mountains. |
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| At Ali Kosh in the southern Zagros Mountains of Iran, an assemblage dating to about 7000 BC that includes hornless sheep is taken as clear evidence of flock manipulation. |
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| The Arabian Plate is surrounded by spreading and subduction zones in the Red Sea and along the Zagros mountains, respectively. |
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| His next destination was the town of Isfahan across the Zagros Mountains in Persia. |
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| During the Late Miocene and Pliocene, the Alpine Orogeny produced the Zagros and Oman mountains, creating the structural framework seen today. |
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| The Neyriz-Kermanshah Ophiolitic Belt in suture zone is a remnant of the Neo-Tethys ocean that was obducted along the Zagros margin. |
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| Iran has a history of major earthquakes and a major fault line, the Zagros belt, passes through southern Iran. |
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| Main Zagros Reverse Fault is a structural boundary changes in depositional history, geography and seismicity has been proposed in the past. |
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| Iran's Neanderthal artifacts from the Middle Paleolithic have been found mainly in the Zagros region, at sites such as Warwasi and Yafteh. |
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| The Zagros Thrust Zone is located along the suture where the north-easterly directed Arabian Plate is subducted below the Iranian Plate. |
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| The high Zagros unit has three separate subunits, which consists of the Biston limestone, the Kermanshah ophiolite, and the Bakhtaran radiolarite. |
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| To the west, settlements in the Zagros basin experience lower temperatures, severe winters with below zero average daily temperatures and heavy snowfall. |
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| This formation is present in most of the Zagros basin and lithologically, consists of limestone, dolomitic limestone, dolomite and marly limestone. |
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| A thin stringy low pressure sets up, which forces winds northwestwards over the foothills of the Zagros mountains and then southeastwards down the Gulf towards Qatar. |
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| Strike-slip faulting and Diapirism of the south-eastern Zagros ranges. |
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| Stephen Oppenheimer has proposed a second wave of humans may have later dispersed through the Persian Gulf oases, and the Zagros mountains into the Middle East. |
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