The Geological Society of the US has planned to mount a session in honor of Iranian Dr. Manuel Berberian for 40 years of contributions.
Dr. Manuel Berberian will give the keynote presentation at the event.
Focused on the Late Proterozoic-Quaternary geologic evolution of the Iranian-Anatolian plateaus, Zagros-Caucasus-Bitlis orogens, and Arabian Plate, the interdisciplinary session will have implications for the active deformation and seismotectonics of the region.
The latest knowledge and analytical data on the Tethyan-collisional evolution of Southwest Asia encompassing the Arabian plate, Iranian-Anatolian plateaus, Zagros-Bitlis orogens, and Caspian-Caucasus region are intended to be presented at the topical session.
The active seismotectonics and magmatism of this spectacular region make it ideally suited for understanding processes of continental deformation and evolution.
Located between the Alps in Europe and the Himalayas in south-central Asia, Southwest Asia has been relatively less studied with modern analytical techniques and concepts although much progress in our geologic understanding of the region has been made in the last 40 years.
Southwest Asia reveals a protracted and complex 600-million-year-old geologic history involving episodes of marginal arc magmatism, emergence and demise of oceanic tracts, the Tethyan sedimentary record, crustal extension and continental collision, which have important implications for the tectonic evolution and active deformation of Eurasia-Arabia continental collision.
Given that the 2013 Denver meeting marks the 125th Anniversary of the GSA and is titled “Celebrating Advances in Geosciences”, this proposed session highlights the geoscience knowledge-base of Southwest Asia over the past four decades during which plate tectonics has provided a unifying framework for understanding and interpreting various data-sets (structural, geophysical, sedimentary, magmatic, metamorphic, and morphotectonic) collected from various part of this vast, actively deforming region.
Manuel Berberian is an Iranian geologist and a Member of NY Academy of Sciences. His origin is from Armenian ethnic-religious minority of Diarbakr in east of Turkey who forced to migrate to Iran after 1915-Armenian massacre.
He founded the Tectonic and Seismotectonic Research Department of the Geological Survey of Iran in Tehran in 1971.
He is the first geologist who applied plate tectonics in the Iranian geology, and he had an important role in development of systematic study of geology, tectonics, seismotectonics, archaeoseismicity, active faulting/folding, and seismicity of the Iranian Plateau.
He is working as Senior Earth and Environmental Scientist at Najarian Associates in New Jersey now. He is currently a professor at Ocean County College.
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