Professional Preparation
Postdoc - Tectonics Observatory
California Institute of Technology - 2017
Postdoc - Bullard Labs
University of Cambridge, UK - 2016
Ph.D. - Tectonics
University of Geneva, Switzerland - 2013
Ph.D. Candidate - Magmatism and Tectonics
University of Tehran - 2008
M.S. - Structural Geology and Tectonics
Research Institute for Earth Sciences - 2004
B.S. - Geology
Lahijan University - 2000
Publications
Iman Monsef, Mohamad Rahgoshay, Mortaza Pirouz, Massimo Chiaradia, Michel Grégoire, and Georges Ceuleneer. "The Eastern Makran Ophiolite (SE Iran): evidence for a Late Cretaceous fore-arc oceanic crust"
International Geology Review 61:11 (2019) 1313-1339 2019 -
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Iman Monsef, Reza Monsef, João Mata, Zhiyong Zhang, Mortaza Pirouz, Mahnaz Rezaeian, Rasoul Esmaeili, Wenjiao Xiao. "Evidence for an early-MORB to fore-arc evolution within the Zagros suture zone: Constraints from zircon U-Pb geochronology and geochemistry of the Neyriz ophiolite (South Iran)"
Gondwana Research 62 (2018) 287-305 2018 -
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Pirouz, M., "Post-Collisional Deposits in the Zagros Foreland Basin: Implications for the Diachronous Underthrusting", 2018,
International Journal of Earth Sciences, 107(5): 1603-1621 2018 -
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Pirouz, M., Avouac, J.P., Hassanzadeh, J., Kirschvink, J.L., Bahroudi, A., 2017, Early Neogene foreland of the Zagros, implications for the initial closure of the Neo-Tethys and kinematics of crustal shortening,
Earth and Planetary Science Letters 2017 -
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Pirouz, M., Avouac, J.P., Gualandi, A., Hassanzadeh, J., Sternai P., Flexural bending of the Zagros foreland basin:
Geophysical Journal International, 2017, 210 (3): 1659-1680. doi: 10.1093/gji/ggx252. 2017 -
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Pirouz, M., Simpson, G., Castelltort, S., Gorin, G., Bahroudi, A., 2016, Controls on the sequence stratigraphic architecture of the Neogene Zagros foreland basin:
Geological Society of America Special Paper v. 525, in Tectonic Evolution, Collision, and Seismicity of Southwest Asia, Editors: Sorkhabi, R, doi: 10.1130/2016.2525(12) 2016 -
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Pirouz, M., Simpson, G., Chiaradia, M., 2015, Constraint on foreland basin migration in the Zagros mountain belt using Sr isotope stratigraphy:
Basin research, v. 27, no 6, p. 714-728, doi: 10.1111/bre.12097 2015 -
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Pirouz, M., Simpson, G., Bahroudi, A., and Azhdari, A., 2011, Neogene Sediments and Modern Depositional Environments of the Zagros Foreland Basin System:
Geological Magazine, v. 148, no. 5-6, p. 838–853, doi: 10.1017/S0016756811000392 2011 -
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Waldmann, N., Anselmetti, F.S., Ariztegui, D., Austin, J., Pirouz, M., Moy, C.M., and Dunbar, R., 2011, Holocene mass wasting events in Lago Fagnano, Tierra del Fuego (54°S): implications for paleoseismicity of the Magallanes Fagnano transform fault:
Basin Research, v. 23, no. 2, p. 171–190, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2010.00489.x 2011 -
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