Zarand (city)

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Zarand (Iran)
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Basic data
Country: IranIran Iran
Province : Kermān
Coordinates : 30 ° 48 '  N , 56 ° 34'  E Coordinates: 30 ° 48 '  N , 56 ° 34'  E
Residents : 63,744 (calculation 2012)
Time zone : UTC +3: 30

Zarand ( Persian زرند) is a city in the province of Kermān in Iran. It is located about 75 km northwest of the provincial capital Kermān .

In 2005 an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.4 M w shook the city and the area around Zarand, killing hundreds of residents.

Fossil finds

Since 2004, the investigations of 109 million old dinosaur footprints from a village near Zarand, discovered in 1972, have been resumed. It is believed that these are the footprints of a female dinosaur and her cubs.

The north of Kerman is of particular interest to paleontologists , as there are many fossil sites from different geological periods. So far, fossils of graptolites from the Ordovician were found there, as well as fossils of dinosaurs from the Jurassic and Cretaceous , and from mammals from the Tertiary . In terms of fossil discoveries, Iran is one of the leading countries in the world with fossil discovery regions such as Maragheh , Varzaghan and Kerman.

Zarand as namesake

  • A crater on Mars ( List of Mars Craters ) was named after the city of Zarand.
  • A plain southwest of Tehran is also called Zarand.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: World Gezatteer population data 2012@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / bevoelkerungsstatistik.de
  2. ↑ Significant Earthquake: Iran: Kerman Province: Zarand Entry in the NOAA earthquake database
  3. ↑ Hundreds killed in Iranian quake. Message on BBC Online, February 22, 2005
  4. ↑ a b Dinosaur Footprints Molded In Kerman. Article on payvand.com , January 2005
  5. ↑ 109 million year-old dinosaur footprints discovered in Iran. ( Memento of the original from September 12, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Article on archaeologydaily.com , August 2009  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.archaeologydaily.com
  6. ^ RB Rickards, MA Hamedi and AJ Wright: A new Arenig (Ordovician) graptolite fauna from the Kerman District, east-central Iran . In: Geological Magazine . v. 131, no. 1 , 1994, p. 35-42 , doi : 10.1017 / S0016756800010463 .
  7. ↑ M. Mirzaie Ataabadi, AWA Kellner, H. Paula Silva, FM Dalla Vecchia: Palaeoichnology and palaeontology of Dinosaurs in north of Kerman, South east central Iran . In: Geosciences . tape 14 , no. 54 , 2005, pp. 36–47 ( online short version and original article (Arabic) with pictures (PDF; 5.0 MB)).