Abstract

Lake Urmia in northwestern Iran (West Azerbaijan Province) is one of the great hypersaline lakes of the world. The approximate area of this salty lake is 5000 km <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sup> with average depth of 6 m. The Urmia Lake has shrunk dramatically due to several factors during last decades. In the Lake Urmia region a Cenozoic island arc complex within the Zagros Orogenic Belt was formed by northeastward subduction of the Neo-Tethyan oceanic plate beneath central Iran. The lake is therefore located in the fore-arc basin of the Sahand Magmatic Arc (Fig. 1).

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