WebThe mountains are completely of sedimentary origin and are made primarily of limestone.In the Elevated Zagros or the Higher Zagros, the Paleozoic rocks can be found mainly in the upper and higher sections of the peaks of the Zagros Mountains, along the Zagros main fault. On both sides of this fault, there are Mesozoic rocks, a combination of Triassic …

WebGeografie. Der Zagros zieht sich über etwa 1500 km von der Provinz Kurdistan an der irakischen Grenze bis zur Straße von Hormus, wo sich Vorderasien und die Arabische Halbinsel auf 50 km nähern. Das Gebirge läuft etwa parallel zum Schwemmland des Tigris bzw. zum Persischen Golf in 50–100 km Entfernung und ist in mehreren Gebirgszügen …

WebThe Qandil Mountains (Kurdish: چیای قەندیل Çiyayên Qendîl), are a mountainous area of Kurdistan Region near the Iraq-Iran border.The region belongs to the Zagros mountain range and is difficult to access, with extremely rugged terrain. The highest peaks reach over 3,000m. The area is notable as a sanctuary and headquarters for the Kurdistan Workers' …

WebThe Taurus Mountains (Turkish: Toros Dağları or Toroslar) are a mountain complex in southern Turkey, separating the Mediterranean coastal region from the central Anatolian Plateau.The system extends along a curve from Lake Eğirdir in the west to the upper reaches of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers in the east. It is a part of the Alpide belt in …

WebThe Airline takes its name from the Zagros Mountains.Zagrosjet was established in October 2005 by Zagros Group under the name Zagros Air.It was licensed as an Air Carrier by Ministry of Transportation – Iraq in June 2013 to perform scheduled and unscheduled flights for passenger and cargo.

WebFormal theory. Formally, a string is a finite, ordered sequence of characters such as letters, digits or spaces. The empty string is the special case where the sequence has length zero, so there are no symbols in the string.

WebThe Hajar Mountains (Arabic: جِبَال ٱلْحَجَر, romanized: Jibāl al-Ḥajar, The Rocky Mountains or The Stone Mountains) in northeastern Oman and also the eastern United Arab Emirates are the highest mountain range in the eastern Arabian peninsula.Also known as "Oman Mountains", they separate the low coastal plain of Oman from the high desert plateau, …

WebThe Old Babylonian Empire, or First Babylonian Empire, is dated to c. 1894 BC – c. 1595 BC, and comes after the end of Sumerian power with the destruction of the Third Dynasty of Ur, and the subsequent Isin-Larsa period.The chronology of the first dynasty of Babylonia is debated, since there is a Babylonian King List A and also a Babylonian King List B. In this …

WebThe cause of Alpine orogeny. The Alpine orogeny is caused by the continents Africa and India and the small Cimmerian Plate colliding (from the south) with Eurasia in the north. Convergent movements between the tectonic plates (the African Plate and the Indian Plate from the south, the Eurasian Plate from the north, and many smaller plates and …

WebNote 1: A peak included in the "Eastern Pamirs" more often than in the Kunlun Mountains, as Kongur Tagh and the Kunlun range are separated by the large Yarkand River valley; no valley of such significance separates the Pamirs and Kongur Tagh, just political boundaries. Note 2: Part of Hindu Kush-Himalayas region . All of the Asian ranges above have been …

WebThe earthquake occurred near the Iran–Iraq border, approximately 220 kilometres (140 mi) northeast of Baghdad. According to the United States Geological Survey, the earthquake measured 7.3 on the moment magnitude scale and was caused by movement on a thrust fault dipping at a shallow angle to the northeast. The epicentre was at a depth of 19.0 …

WebThe Middle East (Arabic: الشرق الأوسط, ISO 233: ash-Sharq al-Awsat) is a geopolitical region commonly encompassing Arabia (including the Arabian Peninsula and Bahrain), Asia Minor (Asian part of Turkey except Hatay Province), East Thrace (European part of Turkey), Egypt, Iran, the Levant (including Ash-Shām and Cyprus), Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq), and …

WebNo. Portrait Name (Birth–Death) Elected Term of office Political party Took office Left office Time in office → • Iraqi Republic (pre–Ba'ath Party) (1958–1968) • : 1 Muhammad Najib ar-Ruba'i محمد نجيب الربيعي

WebA foreland basin is a structural basin that develops adjacent and parallel to a mountain belt.Foreland basins form because the immense mass created by crustal thickening associated with the evolution of a mountain belt causes the lithosphere to bend, by a process known as lithospheric flexure.The width and depth of the foreland basin is …