آقانباتی، س. ع.، 1383، زمینشناسی ایران: سازمان زمینشناسی و اکتشافات معدن کشور.
افشار حرب، ع.، 1380، زمینشناسی نفت ایران: جزوه آموزشی، پردیس دانشکدههای فنی، دانشگاه تهران.
Alavi, M., 1992, Thrust tectonics of the Binalood region, NE Iran: Tectonics, 11, 37–360.
Backus, G. E., and Gilbert, F., 1968, The resolving power of gross earth data: Geophys. J. Int., 16, 169–205.
Chen, Y., Badal, J., and Hu., J., 2010, Love and Rayleigh wave tomography of the Qinghai-Tibet plateau and surrounding areas: Geophys. J. Int., 167(10), 1171–1203.
Crosson, S., 2007, Checkerboard Test for 3-D Tomography Model of Washington Cascadia Margin: Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
Ditmar, P. G., and Yanovskaya, T. B., 1987, Generalization of Backus–Gilbert method for estimation of lateral variations of surface wave velocities: Phys. Solid Earth, Izvestia Acad. Sci. USSR, 23 (6), 470–477.
Dziewonski, A., S. Bloch, and Landisman, M., 1969, A technique for the analysis of transient seismic signals: Bull. Seism. Soc. Am. 59, 427–444.
Hollingsworth, J., Fattahi, M., Walker, R., Talebian, M., Bahroudi, A., Bolourchi, M., Jackson, J., and Copley, A., 2010, Oroclinal bending, distributed thrust and strike-slip faulting, and the accommodation of Arabia–Eurasia convergence in NE Iran since the Oligocene: Geophys. J. Int. 181, 1214–1246.
Hollingsworth, J., Jackson, J., Walker, R., Gheitanchi, M., and Bolourchi, M., 2006, Strike-slip faulting, rotation, and along-strike elongation in the Kopeh Dagh mountains, NE Iran: Geophys. J. Int., 166, 1161–1177.
Jackson, J. A., and McKenzi, D. P., 1984, Active tectonics of the Alpine–Himalayan belt between Western Turkey and Pakistan: Geophys. J. Royal Astronomical Soc., 77, 185–264.
Landisman, M., Dziewonski, A., and Sato, Y., 1969, Recent improvements in the analysis of surface observations: Geophys. J. Int., 17, 369–403.
Lévěque, J. J., Rivera, L., and Wittlinger, G., 1993, On the use of the checkerboard test to assess the resolution of tomographic inversions: Geophys. J. Int., 115, 313–318.
Levshin, A. L., Ritzwoller, M. H., and Resovsky, J. S., 1999, Source effects on surface wave group travel times and group velocity maps: Phys. Earth Planet Inter., 115, 293–312.
McKenzie, D., 1972, Active tectonics of the Mediterranean region: Geophys. J. Roy. Astr. Soc., 30, 109–185.
Motaghi, K., Tatar, M., Priestley, K., Romanelli, F., Doglioni, C., and Panza, G. F., 2014, The deep structure of the Iranian Plateau: Gondwana Research, 1–12.
Motaghi, k., Tatar, M., Shomali, Z. H., Kaviani, A., and Priestley, K., 2012, High resolution image of uppermost mantle beneath NE Iran continental collision zone: Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 208–209, 38–49.
Panza, G. F., 1976, Phase velocity determination of fundamental Love and Rayleigh waves: Pure Appl. Geophys., 114, pp. 753–764.
Rahimi, H., Hamzehloo, H., Vaccari, F., and Panza, G. F., 2014, Shear-wave velocity tomography of the lithosphere–asthenosphere system beneath the Iranian Plateau: Bull. Seism. Soc. of Am., 104)6(, 2782-2798.
Tchalenko, J. S., and Berberian, M., 1975, Dasht-e-Bayaz fault, Iran: Earthquake and earlier related structures in bedrock: Geol. Surv. Am. Bull., 86, 703–709.
Woodhouse, J. H., and Dziewonski, A. M. 1984, Mapping the upper mantle: Three-dimensional modeling of earth structure by inversion of seismic waveforms: J. Geophys. Res., 89, 5953–5986.
Xuemei, Z., 2009, The structural model of the lithosphere–asthenosphere system in the Qinghai-Tibet and its adjacent areas from surface wave tomography: Chinese Academy of Science, Institute of Geology and Geophysics.
Yanovskaya, T. B. and Ditmar, P. G., 1990, Smoothness criteria in surface wave tomography: Geophys. J. Int., 102, 63–72.
Yanovskaya T. B., 1987, Resolution estimation in the problem of seismic ray tomography: Izv Phys Solid Earth, 33 (9), 762–765.