Acknowledgements

Preface

LETURMY, P. & ROBIN, C. Tectonic and stratigraphic evolution of Zagros and Makran during the Mesozoic–Cenozoic: introduction

PAUL, A., HATZFELD, D., KAVIANI, A., TATAR, M. & PÉQUEGNAT, C. Seismic imaging of the lithospheric structure of the Zagros mountain belt (Iran)

HATZFELD, D., AUTHEMAYOU, C., VAN DER BEEK, P., BELLIER, O., LAVÉ , J., OVEISI, B., TATAR, M., TAVAKOLI, F., WALPERSDORF, A. & YAMINI-FARD, F. The kinematics of the Zagros Mountains (Iran)

REGARD, V., HATZFELD, D., MOLINARO, M., AUBOURG, C., BAYER, R., BELLIER, O., YAMINI-FARD, F., PEYRET, M. & ABBASSI, M. The transition between Makran subduction and the Zagros collision: recent advances in its structure and active deformation

NAVABPOUR, P., ANGELIER, J. & BARRIER, E. Mesozoic extensional brittle tectonics of the Arabian passive margin, inverted in the Zagros collision (Iran, interior Fars)

AUBOURG, C., SMITH, B., ESHRAGHI, A., LACOMBE, O., AUTHEMAYOU, C., AMROUCH, K., BELLIER, O. & MOUTHEREAU, F. New magnetic fabric data and their comparison with palaeostress markers in the Western Fars Arc (Zagros, Iran): tectonic implications

LETURMY, P., MOLINARO, M. & FRIZON DE LAMOTTE, D. Structure, timing and morphological signature of hidden reverse basement faults in the Fars Arc of the Zagros (Iran)

BURBERRY, C. M., COSGROVE, J. W. & LIU, J.-G. A study of fold characteristics and deformation style using the evolution of the land surface: Zagros Simply Folded Belt, Iran

EMAMI, H., VERGÉS, J., NALPAS, T., GILLESPIE, P., SHARP, I., KARPUZ, R., BLANC, E. P. & GOODARZI, M. G. H. Structure of the Mountain Front Flexure along the Anaran anticline in the Pusht-e Kuh Arc (NW Zagros, Iran) : insights from sand box models

ROBIN, C., GORICAN, S., GUILLOCHEAU, F., RAZIN, P., DROMART, G. & MOSAFFA, H.
Mesozoic deep-water carbonate deposits from the southern Tethyan passive margin in Iran (Pichakun nappes, Neyriz area): biostratigraphy, facies sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy

PIRYAEI, A., REIJMER, J. J. G., VAN BUCHEM, F. S. P., YAZDI-MOGHADAM, M., SADOUNI, J. & DANELIAN, T. The influence of Late Cretaceous tectonic processes on sedimentation patterns along the northeastern Arabian plate margin (Fars Province, SW Iran)

HAJIKAZEMI, E., AL-AASM, I. S. & CONIGLIO, M. Subaerial exposure and meteoric diagenesis of the Cenomanian–Turonian Upper Sarvak Formation, southwestern Iran

HOSSEINI-BARZI, M. Spatial and temporal diagenetic evolution of syntectonic sediments in a pulsatory uplifted coastal escarpment, evidenced from the Plio-Pleistocene, Makran subduction zone, Iran

BORDENAVE, M. L. & HEGRE, J. A. Current distribution of oil and gas fields in the Zagros Fold Belt of Iran and contiguous offshore as the result of the petroleum systems

Index

It is pleasing to see some excellent Iranian scientists involved in these contributions, some of whom have grown into figures of international stature during this period. Much of the credit for this development and international collaboration must go to the visionary attitude of the directors of Iranian institutions such the International Institute for Earthquake Engineering and Seismology, the National Cartographic Centre and particularly to the Geological Survey of Iran, which is prominently acknowledged in this work. Several of the contributions are summaries or syntheses of work published in professional journals, but no less useful for that. 

There is much that is valuable in this volume ... produced and illustrated in abundant colour. It is perhaps invidious to single out particular contributions, as that must reflect the personal interests of the reviewer, but I shall do so anyway to illustrate the points in the first paragraph. It is striking how transformative is the application of modern seismology, in the form of high-quality digital data and new techniques such as receiver function analysis, to understanding the first-order structure of the country, such as the variation in crustal thickness and its relation to the surface geology (Paul et al.). Similarly eye-opening was the use of GPS to determine velocity fields and constrain fault slip rates over the whole of the Zagros and its transition to the Makran (Hatzfeld et al., Regard et al.). 
The final paper of the volume, and by far the longest (63 pages) is a hefty review of the petroleum systems in the Zagros and its contiguous offshore by Bordenave & Hegre, with a huge wealth of information gathered in one place; one that will surely be useful and welcome for some time to come.

Review By James Jackson, University of Cambridge, Geological Magazine 2011.