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As defined by the World Wildlife Fund and used in their Wildfinder, the particular terrestrial ecoregion of the mid to high mountain area is Zagros Mountains forest steppe (PA0446). The annual precipitation ranges from 400–800 mm (16–31 in) and falls mostly in winter and spring. Winters are severe, with low temperatures often below −25 ...
The Zagros are home to many threatened and endangered animals, including the Persian leopard (Panthera pardus tulliana), Syrian brown bear (Ursus arctos syriacus), mouflon (Ovis orientalis orientalis), wolf (Canis lupus), striped hyena (Hyena hyena), Blanford's fox (Vulpes cana), and Zagros Mountains mouse-like hamster (Calomyscus bailwardi).
Ophiolites are sequences of mafic to ultramafic rock generally believed to represent ancient oceanic lithosphere.They are distributed all across the world being all of them located at present or past orogenic belts, sites of mountain building processes.
Parâw (Kurdish:پهڕاو for "full of water") is a mountain located to the north east of Kermanshah city in western Iran. Parâw, with an approximate length of 80 km and an area of 880 square kilometres is part of the Zagros Mountains. [2] Paraw is one of the 1515 Ultra-prominent peak of the world.
Gardaneh ye Kuli Kesh Romanized Gardaneh i Kuli Kash, Gardaneh e quli Kosh (Arabic: گَردَنِۀ كُولی كُش or Persian: گردنه کولى کش or Persian: گَردَنِۀ كُولی كوش) is a mountain pass of the Zagros mountain Range.
The area pertaining to the hilly flanks is predominantly characterised as the foothills of the Zagros Mountains.Intercepting through the modern-day borders of Turkey, Iraq, and Iran, the region spans over 1000 miles from the lower central area of the Turkish peninsula, curling around the northern sector of the Tigris river, then running along the foothills of the Zagros Mountain range.
It is believed that Ecbatana is located in the Zagros Mountains, the east of central Mesopotamia, [2] on Hagmatana Hill (Tappe-ye Hagmatāna). [3] Ecbatana's strategic location and resources probably made it a popular site even before the 1st millennium BC. [ 4 ]
The process of collision continues to the present and as the Arabian plate is being pushed against the Iranian plate, the Zagros Mountains and the Iranian plateau are getting higher and higher. The Zagros mountain range, itself, has a totally sedimentary origin and is made primarily of limestone. In the Elevated Zagros or the Higher Zagros, the ...