Characteristics of Fracture Patterns in the Zagros Fold-and-thrust Belt
The Zagros fold-and-thrust belt, in southwest Iran, exposes extensive areas of deformed Cambrian to Holocene sedimentary rocks with minimum vegetation cover. These Phanerozoic sequences are folded and faulted above the crystalline Precambrian basement, forming large doubly-plunging folds that host vast volumes of hydrocarbon in anticlinal...
