DocumentCode
2187924
Title
Satellite image interpretation for tectonic analysis of the Urmia region, northwestern Iran
Author
Alizadeh, A. ; Mansour, N.
Author_Institution
Geol. Dept., Urmia Univ., Urmia, Iran
fYear
2012
fDate
22-27 July 2012
Firstpage
2740
Lastpage
2743
Abstract
Lake Urmia in northwestern Iran (West Azerbaijan Province) is one of the great hypersaline lakes of the world. The approximate area of this salty lake is 5000 km2 with average depth of 6 m. The Urmia Lake has shrunk dramatically due to several factors during last decades. In the Lake Urmia region a Cenozoic island arc complex within the Zagros Orogenic Belt was formed by northeastward subduction of the Neo-Tethyan oceanic plate beneath central Iran. The lake is therefore located in the fore-arc basin of the Sahand Magmatic Arc (Fig. 1).
Keywords
geochronology; geophysical image processing; hydrological techniques; lakes; tectonics; Cenozoic island arc complex; Lake Urmia region; Neo-Tethyan oceanic plate; Sahand Magmatic Arc; West Azerbaijan Province; Zagros Orogenic Belt; central Iran; fore-arc basin; hypersaline lakes; northeastward subduction; northwestern Iran; satellite image interpretation; tectonic analysis; Earthquakes; Image recognition; Lakes; NASA; Rocks; Satellites;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012 IEEE International
Conference_Location
Munich
ISSN
2153-6996
Print_ISBN
978-1-4673-1160-1
Electronic_ISBN
2153-6996
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6350359
Filename
6350359
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