Outline the nature of the Zagros basin. Be sure to highlight the type of foreland system this basin represents and interpret the stacking relationships of the various lithofacies that accumulated in the basin. Finally, discuss the consequences of fluid flow in these strata as related to the types of economic resources formed in the basin. Below are general references on foreland systems and seed references on the Zagros Basin you may obtain from the Queen’s library as a starting point. Please flesh out this list of seed references using an appropriate search engine through QCAT to find more papers. The final product will consist of a 10 page, double-spaced, type-written essay. Please include a title page with title, useful figures with captions, and a bibliography. Figures and references do not count towards the 10 page, type-written minimum. Finally, please use APA formatting style for your in-text references and bibliography. The discussion of the basin type, depositional history during foreland basin development, and the economic resources will be equally weighted
General background and concepts:Allen, P.A. and Homewood, P. eds., 2009. Foreland basins (Vol. 36). John Wiley & Sons. Allen, P.A., Homewood, P. and Williams, G.D., 1986. Foreland basins: an introduction. In Foreland basins (Vol. 8, pp. 3-12). Inter. Assoc. Sediment., Spec. Pub. Catuneanu, O., 2019. First-order foreland cycles: Interplay of flexural tectonics, dynamic loading, and sedimentation. Journal of Geodynamics, 129, pp.290-298. Chapman, J.B. and DeCelles, P.G., 2015. Foreland basin stratigraphic control on thrust belt evolution. Geology, 43(7), pp.579-582. DeCelles, P.G. and Giles, K.A., 1996. Foreland basin systems. Basin research, 8(2), pp.105-123. DeCelles, P.G., 2012. Foreland basin systems revisited: Variations in response to tectonic settings. Tectonics of sedimentary basins: Recent advances, pp.405-426. Naylor, M. and Sinclair, H.D., 2008. Pro‐vs. retro‐foreland basins. Basin Research, 20(3), pp.285-303. Sinclair, H., 2011. Thrust wedge/foreland basin systems. Tectonics of sedimentary basins: Recent advances, pp.522-537. Zagros basin and fold-thrust belt Alavi, M., 2004. Regional stratigraphy of the Zagros fold-thrust belt of Iran and its proforeland evolution. American journal of Science, 304(1), pp.1-20. Bahroudi, A. and Koyi, H.A., 2004. Tectono-sedimentary framework of the Gachsaran Formation in the Zagros foreland basin. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 21(10), pp.1295-1310. Barber, D.E., Stockli, D.F. and Galster, F., 2019. The Proto‐Zagros foreland basin in Lorestan, western Iran: Insights from multimineral detrital geothermochronometric and trace elemental provenance analysis. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 20(6), pp.2657-2680. Homke, S., Vergés, J., Serra-Kiel, J., Bernaola, G., Sharp, I., Garcés, M., Montero-Verdú, I., Karpuz, R. and Goodarzi, M.H., 2009. Late Cretaceous–Paleocene formation of the proto–Zagros foreland basin, Lurestan Province, SW Iran. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 121(7-8), pp.963-978. Koshnaw, R.I., Horton, B.K., Stockli, D.F., Barber, D.E. and Tamar‐Agha, M.Y., 2020. Sediment routing in the Zagros foreland basin: Drainage reorganization and a shift from axial to transverse sediment dispersal in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. Basin Research, 32(4), pp.688-715. Pirouz, M., Simpson, G., Bahroudi, A. and Azhdari, A., 2011. Neogene sediments and modern depositional environments of the Zagros foreland basin system. Geological Magazine, 148(5-6), pp.838-853.
