A view of the Zagros mountains in Iran, where an oceanic plate is tearing apart. . | Credit: Allan Baxter via Getty Images A long-lost oceanic plate is diving deep into the mantle, dragging down ...

A hilly area surrounding the Zagros Mountains in Iraq is being pulled into the Earth ... The slab, which formed the floor of an ancient ocean more than 66 million years ago, is splitting from ...

An international research team led by the University of Göttingen has investigated the influence of the forces exerted by the Zagros Mountains in the Kurdistan region of Iraq on how ... with a tear ...

Iran closed schools and government offices in Tehran and more than 20 of its 31 provinces on Wednesday to save energy as ...

Now, a new study pinpoints where one wave of those encounters occurred — the Zagros Mountains in what is now mostly Iran. "The geography of the Iranian Plateau has been almost at the crossroads ...

The tear is now heading toward northwest Iran. These dynamics aren't immediately ... that used to underpin it is still affecting the Zagros mountain region, the new study found.

An international research team has investigated the influence of the forces exerted by the Zagros Mountains in the Kurdistan ... southeast Turkey to northwest Iran. Their findings show how the ...

An international research team led by the University of Göttingen has investigated the influence of the forces exerted by the Zagros Mountains ... Turkey to northwest Iran. Their findings show ...