Atlas DARIUS PDF - Paleotectonic Reconstruction of the Central Tethyan Realm

DARIUS Atlas PDF

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PROGRAMME ON GEODYNAMIC AND GEOTECTONIC EVOLUTION IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND CENTRAL ASIA.
RECONSTRUCTION OF THE EVOLUTION OF THE MIDDLE EAST SINCE THE MESOZOIC.

The 4-year DARIUS programme brought together the efforts of major oil companies (BHP Billiton, BP, ENI, MAERSK Oil, PETRONAS, Shell, Statoil and TOTAL) and French research institutions (INSU-CNRS, UPMC). DARIUS brought together a group of scientists with expertise in several areas of tectonics (structural analysis, paleostress reconstructions, subsidence modelling), stratigraphy (paleontology, sequence stratigraphy, sedimentology, organic matter analysis), petrography, kinematics and geophysics. Its aim was to characterise the major tectonic events and establish a precise chronology, from the Upper Permian to the Pliocene, of the tectonic evolution of the chains rising from the Middle East to Central Asia.

Contents of the DARIUS Atlas PDF

The set includes 20 maps at a scale of 1:15,000,000 for each of the periods shown below

Our palinspastic reconstruction begins in the Terminal Permian. We distinguish two major periods: pre- and post-Arabian-Eurasian collision. The palaeotectonic maps are based on an updated kinematic reconstruction of the movements of Africa-Arabia in relation to Eurasia. In 20 steps, the maps show: