Aqra Anticline: A Growing Structure in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region

Aqra Anticline is a double plunging Pad anticline, oriented NW–SE with a steep southwestern limb and even overturned.Geomorphological features are interpreted using satellite images, as a result, it was found that the anticline shows clear geomorphological and structural features which indicate the lateral growth of the anticline.Among those features are water gaps, wind gaps, forked-shaped valleys, curved valleys, inclined SPEARMINT GUM valleys and dislocated and abandoned alluvial fans.Some of the vague interpreted features were checked and confirmed in the field.

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