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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Munich
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1160-1
Electronic_ISBN :
2153-6996
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6350359
