Khaled HESSAMI-AZAR

Present Occupation: Assistant Professor

E-mail: hessami@iiees.ac.ir
Tel:  +98 21 22831116-19
Fax: +98 21 2228 9455

Joined IIEES on 1992

Education

• Ph.D. Tectonics and Geodynamics, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. May 2002.
  Dissertation: “Tectonic history and present-day deformation in the Zagros fold-thrust belt”.

• M.Sc. Master of Science in Structural Geology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran. July1992.

• B.Sc. Bachelor of Science in Geology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran. February 1989.

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Research/Teaching & Memberships

Research Interests

•  Morphology of active faults

• Paleoseismology

• Active continental deformation

Active Projects

•  Paleoseismological investigations along the SE segment of the North Tabriz fault

• An investigation of some historical earthquakes and paleoseismic sources in Iran

Recent Accomplished Projects

• Surface expression of the Bam fault zone in southeastern Iran: causative fault of the December 26, 2003 earthquake.

• Paleoseismological investigations along the NW segment of the North Tabriz fault

• Major active faults of Iran

Teaching

• Seismotectonics

• Paleoseismology

• Active tectonics

Membership

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Professional Experience

Engineering

•  Seismotectonic investigations for seismic hazard assessment of Ahwaz Oil field

• Seismotectonic investigations for seismic hazard assessment of Rud-e Shur Region

• Seismotectonic investigations for seismic hazard assessment of South Pars, Site III

Administration

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Selected Publications

• Hessami, K., Nilforoushan, F., and 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.

• 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.
  and 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. and 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. and 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.

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

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