Mortaza Pirouz, PhD
My research aims mainly to understand better the evolution of foreland basins and their interactions with surface processes, crustal deformation and mantle dynamics. I investigated Neogene deposits of the Zagros foreland basin and placed the various deposits observed within the context of foreland basin depozones and emphasized that this vertical succession bears a striking similarity to modern depositional environments and sedimentary deposits observed in the Zagros region today.
I deduced diachronicity of foreland basin depo-zones using Strontium isotope stratigraphy in response to the Zagros crustal deformation migrated progressively southward towards the Arabia.
After my PhD graduation in January 2013, I obtained SNF Early Postdoc Mobility grant to move California Institute of Technology (Caltech) as a postdoc working with Prof. Jean-Philippe Avouac on sediment flux in response to geodynamic processes in the Zagros using low temperature thermochronology. My goal was to understand fundamental questions about the link between mountain evolution and sediment flux into the foreland through time and whether mountain belts and their related foreland basins attain steady state or they can be replaced by wedge growing conditions.
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