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Khaled Hessami Present Occupation: Assistant professor E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Tel: +98 21 2283 1116-19 Fax: +98 21 2280 5756 Joined IIEES on 1992

Education

• Ph.D. Tectonics and Geodynamics, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. May 2002.
• M.Sc. Master of Science in Structural Geology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran. July 1992.
• B.Sc. Bachelor of Science in Geology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran. February 1989.

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Research Interests

• Morphology of active faults
• Paleoseismology
• Active continental deformation

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Teaching

• Active tectonics
• Physical geology

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Engineering

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Selected Publications

• Karim, K.H., Koyi, H., Baziany, M.M., Hessami, K., 2011. Significance of angular unconformities between Cretaceous and Tertiary strata in the northwestern segment of the Zagros fold–thrust belt, Kurdistan Region, NE Iraq. Geological Magazine, 148, 925-939. doi:10.1017/S0016756811000471.

• Solaymani Azad, S., Dominguez, S., Philip, H., Hessami, K., Forutan, M.R., Shahpasan Zadeh, M., Ritz, J.-F., 2011. The Zandjan fault system: Morphological and tectonic evidences of a new active fault network in the NW of Iran, Tectonophysics, 506, 73-85, doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2011.04.012
  

• Motaghi, K., Hessami, K., Tatar, M., 2010. Pattern recognition of major asperities using local recurrence time in Alborz Mountains, Northern Iran. Journal of Seismology, 14, 787-802, doi: 10.1007/s10950-010-9201-z.

• Jamali, F., Hessami, K., Ghorashi, M., 2010. Active tectonics and strain partitioning along dextral fault system in Central Iran: Analysis of geomorphological observations and geophysical data in the Kashan region. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 40, 1015-1025, doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2010.05.013.

• Azadi, A., Hessami, K., Javan-Doloei, G., 2010. Integrated geophysical methods for determining geometry of the Kahrizak Fault, Tehran, Iran. Nat Hazards, 54, 813–825, doi: 10.1007/s11069-010-9506-9.

• Peyret, M., Djamour, Y., Hessami, K., Regard, V., Bellier, O., Vernant, P., Daignières, M., Nankali, H., Van Gorp, S., Goudarzi, M., Chéry, J., Bayer, R., Rigoulay, M., 2009. Present-day strain distribution across the Minab-Zendan-Palami fault system from dense GPS transects. Geophysical Journal International, 179, 751-762, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04321.x

• Gholamzadeh, A., Yamini-Fard, F., Hessami, K., Tatar, M., 2009. The February 28, 2006 Tiab earthquake, Mw 6.0: Implications for tectonics of the transition between the Zagros continental collision and the Makran subduction zone. Journal of Geodynamics, 47, 280-287, doi:10.1016/j.jog.2009.01.005.

• Koyi, H., Ghasemi, A., Hessami, K., Dietl, C., 2008. The mechanical relationship between strike-slip faults and salt diapirs in the Zagros fold–thrust belt. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 165, 1031-1044.

• Mokhtari, M., Abdollahie Fard, I., Hessami, K., 2008. Structural elements of the Makran region, Oman sea and their potential relevance to tsunamigenisis. Natural Hazards, 47, 185-199, doi: 10.1007/s11069-007-9208-0.

• Fu, B., Lei, X., Hessami, K., Ninomiya, Y., Azuma, T., Kondo, H., 2007. A new fault rupture scenario for the 2003 Mw 6.6 Bam earthquake, SE Iran: Insights from the high-resolution QuickBird imagery and field observations. Journal of Geodynamics, 44, 160-172.

• Hessami, K., Nilforoushan, F., Talbot, C.J., 2006. Active deformation within the Zagros Mountains deduced from GPS measurements. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 163, 143-148.

• Hessami, K., Tabassi, H., Okumura, K., Abbassi, M.R., Azuma, T., 2005. Surface deformation and the fault responsible for the December 26, 2003 earthquake at Bam, Iran. Earthquake Spectra, 21 (3), 113-123.

• Hessami, K., Tabassi, H, Abbassi, M.R., Azuma, T., Okumura, K., Echigo, T., Kondo, H., 2004. Surface expression of the Bam fault zone in southeastern Iran: causative fault of the December 26, 2003 earthquake. Journal of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering, 5 (4), 5-14.

• Karakhanian, A.S., Trifonov, V.G., Philip, H., Avagyan, A., Hessami, K., Jamali, F., Bayraktutan, M.S., Bagdassarian, M., Arakelian, S., Davtian, V., 2004. Active faulting and natural hazards in Armenia, eastern Turkey and north-western Iran. Tectonophysics, 380 (3-4), 189-219.

• Bachmanov, D.M., Trifonov, V.G., Hessami, K., Kozhurin, A.I., Ivanova, T.P., Rogozhin, E.A., Hademi, M.C., Jamali, F., 2004. Active faults in Zagros and central Iran. Tectonophysics, 380 (3-4), 221-241.

• Hessami, K., Pantosti, D., Tabasi, H., Shabanian, E., Abbasi, M.R., Feghhi, K., Soleymani, S., 2003. Paleoearthquakes and slip rates of the North Tabriz Fault, NW Iran: preliminary results. Annals of Geophysics, 46 (5), 903-915.

• Hessami, K., Koyi, H., Talbot, C.J., Tabasi, H., Shabanian, E., 2001. Progressive unconformities within an evolving foreland fold-thrust belt, Zagros Mountain. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 158 (6), 969-981.

• Hessami, K., Koyi, H., Talbot, C.J., 2001. The Significance of Strike-slip faulting in the basement of the Zagros fold and thrust belt, Journal of Petroleum Geology, 24 (1), 5-28.

• Koyi, H., Hessami, K., Teixell, A., 2000. Epicenter distribution and magnitude of earthquakes in fold-thrust belts: insights from sandbox models, Geophysical Research Letters, 27 (2), 273-276.

• De Martini, P.M., Hessami, K., Pantosti, D., D'Addezio, G., Alinaghi, H., Ghafory-Ashtiani, M., 1998. A geologic contribution to the evaluation of the seismic potential of the Kahrizak fault (Tehran, Iran), Tectonophysics, 287, 187-199.

• Hessami, K., Alyasin, S., Jamali, F., 1997. An investigation of some historical earthquakes and paleoseismic sources in Iran, Historical and Prehistorical Earthquakes in the Caucasus, In: D. Giardini and S. Balasanian (eds.), NATO Asi Series, 2. Environment, Vol. 28, Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands, 189-199.

• Hessami, K., Jamali, F., 1996. Active Faulting in Iran, Journal of Earthquake Prediction Research, 5 (3), 403-412.
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