40° E 60° E ROMANIA 30° E 50° E 70° E ! Bucharest RUSSIA RUSSIA KAZAKHSTAN 50° N ARAL KAZAKHSTAN KAZAKHSTAN SEA BULGARIA

BLACK SEA GRE KazbekElbruz ATE TURKEY R CA ^_ UCA SUS Kazbek Zopkhito ^_ IRAN ^_ UZBEKISTAN 30° N GEORGIA ^_ 40° N natolian Fau North A lt ! T'Bilisi ir-Ank ^_ T'Bilisi Izm ara -E n Sutur rzinca e L SAUDI ESS E Area of map Ankara ER Somkheto-Karabakh U ! ^_ C R ARABIA A Island Arc ^_ U Baku A ARABIAN Sevan-Akera C ! S Argats^_ A I SEA EAST S AZERBAIJAN A ^_ TURKEY ^_ U N ANATOLIAN BLOCK ANATOLIAN Ararat ^_ ^_ ^_ S P PROVINCE ^_ Vedi-Zangezur LA Inlice ^_ ^_ ^_ ^_ East ^_ TE ^_^_ Anatolian Sabalan ^_ Sarıçimen Fault Tabriz Fau Ashgabat TURKMENISTAN ^_ lt ^_ _ CASPIAN SEA ! ^_ Öksüt ^_ Khoy Quchan EXPLANATION Konya Continental Arc ^_ re ^_ utu S TTALYSHALYSH ys Porphyry copper Sahand th ^_ Damavand n Neote C ther KOPET DAGH - Y or IC P ^_ N N R Assessed porphyry copper tract 142pCu9017 LE IA EL N H Nicosia T CYPRUS ! SYRIA Sabzevar R ^_ Sub-tract 142pCu9017a E Tehran! N ALBORZALBORZ C H Sub-tract 142pCu9017b Great Kafir-Doruneh Fault Beirut A ! R CENTRAL IRANIAN TERRANE U A R Sub-tract 142pCu9017c MEDITERRANEAN SEA U LEBANON ! Damascus B M SISTANSISTAN B it IE lis H Odeh (Ratuk) ^_ I - -D ^_ Z O ^_ A ! ag K Rangan N FARAH Permissive intrusive rock ISRAEL Baghdad ro H a s TA y ^_ N S R b

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Base from SRTM Global Digital Elevation Model, U.S. Geological Survey EROS Data Center, 2006. 0 150 300 450 600 KILOMETERS Political boundaries from U.S. Department of State (2009). Asia North Albers Equal-Area Conic Projection. Central meridian, 48° E., latitude of origin, 35° N. 0 150 300 MILES

Figure 57. Map showing the distribution of permissive intrusive and extrusive rocks used to define tract 142pCu9017, Plio-Quaternary— Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Pakistan, Russian Federation, and Turkey. Sub-tracts: 142pCu9017a, Plio-Quaternary—Konya, Turkey; 142pCu9017b, Plio-Quaternary—Postcollisional, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Russian Federation, and Turkey; and 142pCu9017c, Plio-Quaternary—Bazman, Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan. See appendix A for principal sources of information and appendix B for source map units.