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| N. and S. Zagros Ranges & Persian Gulf: The lobate Qatar peninsula and Bahrain, on the southwestern shore of the Persian Gulf, lie beyond the orbiter stabilizer in this southeastward view. Along the northern Gulf coast are the folded mountain ranges of Iran, where the contrasting structural styles in the Northern and Southern Zagros ranges are clearly visible. Folds of the Northern Zagros, at left just above the orbiter, are long and tight, whereas those of the Southern Zagros are broader and less continuous. The differing styles reflect the responses of different rock types to the collision of the Arabian and Eurasian tectonic plates. Arabia is moving northward and is descending beneath the Eurasian plate margin, resulting in the crumpling of strata along the margin. The dark rocks in the crescent along the Oman Peninsula (distant center) are remnants of oceanic crust that were uplifted about 70 million years ago, early in the collision of the two plates. |
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