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    زاگرۆس, romanized: Çiyakanî Zagros; Turkish: Zagros Dağları; Luri: Kûya Zagrus کویا زاگرس or کوه یل زاگرس) are a long mountain range in Iran, northern Iraq...
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    the Zagros Mountains – A series of elongated anticlinal domes, mostly formed as detachment folds over underlying thrusts in the foreland of the Zagros collisional...
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    eastern Turkey and northern Iraq to southern Iran. The Zagros Mountains are a belt of folded mountains formed by the collision of the African Plate with the...
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    Mountains form an arc around the Gulf of Antalya. It includes the Akdağlar, Bey Mountains, Katrancık Mountain, Kuyucak Mountains, and Geyik Mountains...
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  • The Zagros Mountains mouse-like hamster (Calomyscus bailwardi) is a relatively little-known rodent which was the first species of mouse-like hamster to...
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    the Balkan Mountains, the Jura and the Zagros mountains. When a fault block is raised or tilted, a block mountain can result. Higher blocks are called horsts...
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    between the Zagros Mountains to the west, the Caspian Sea and the Köpet Dag to the north, the Armenian Highlands and the Caucasus Mountains to the northwest...
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    Asbestnaya Mount and Acheshbok Mount, Russia Bolshoy Tkhach Park, Russia Zagros Mountains Native names: Georgian: კავკასიონი, romanized: k'avk'asioni, pronounced...
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    The Zagros fold and thrust belt (Zagros FTB) is an approximately 1,800-kilometre (1,100 mi) long zone of deformed crustal rocks, formed in the foreland...
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    area of Iraq near the Iran-Iraq border. The region belongs to the Zagros mountain range and is difficult to access, with extremely rugged terrain. The...
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