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• TITLE: Non-Diapiric Salt Domes in the West Zanjan, Central Iran

  AUTHORS: Sina Alizadeh

  KEYWORDS: Non-Diapiric, Salt Dome, Zanjan, Central Iran

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Geology, Vol.7 No.2, February 24, 2017

  ABSTRACT: The salt domes of the west Zanjan (Central Iran) are the most important structures in the study area. They have been formed by the uplifting and erosion together under low humidity and dry and warm climate condition. The salt rocks with near to 200 meters thickness are related to lower member of the Upper Red Formation (Early Miocene) that deposited in the inverted back arc basin. They have been formed in the Central Iran basin after the Arabian-Eurasian convergence. Based on filed works and preparation of geologic map, salt domes have been cropped out during regional uplifting and erosion along hinge zone of a longitudinal anticline. Also, there is no evidence for salt diapirism and so, they are different from some salt diapirs in the southwestern margin of Zanjan that is investigated by other researchers.