Zonuz
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Zonuz
Zonouz or Zounouz زنوز, زونوز | |
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| Country |  Iran |
| Province | East Azarbaijan Province |
| County | Marand |
| Time zone | UTC+3:30 (IRST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+4:30 (IRDT) |
Zonouz (زونوز in Azari) and (زنوز in Persian), also known as Zonuz or Zounouz is a small Iranian South Caucasian village in the East Azarbaijan province of Iran. It is located on a mountain, and has very cold and snowy weather in winter and cool summers. Zonouz valley is located between two mountain ranges. They extended east-west direction. They are connected to each other in the east by Soltan Sanjar mountain. The height of this mountains from east to west are decreased. Soltan Sanjar with a height of 3,168 meters is located in the east. Other mountains namely, Nevasar, Gerdehowul,Diragah have a height of 2500 to 2200 meters respectively.
Geography
Topography
According to the study of French geologist Hubet Rieben, the land of Zonouz is formed by the rocks, their ages reach from Devonian to Quaternary period. The age of rocks are related to different geologic periods.
- Calcareous rocks, formation of Paleozoic begins from Devonian. Generally they are formed from calcareous rocks. They form symmetrical layers. The color and hardness of these Calcareous rocks are different. You can see Calcareous layers in the north wall and eastern parts of Diragah mountain. They are in red color and hard. Sometimes it seems to be light blue. In the south-west part of this mountain,black olive Calcareous layers can be distinguished. On the other hand, dark brown and blue limestone is lain in the upper part of Zounuz's dam. In this place, eruption of mineral springs through Calcareous rocks are seen. Unfortunately this place recently is submerged under water of dam.
It is mentioned that different color limestone has been seen in the Zonouz area. On the western slopes of high altitude of Soltan Sanjar mountain, the limestone are in dark red, whereas on the eastern slopes of Zireh mount which is situated on the north part of Zonouz, you can see black limestones.
- Formations of Mesozoic period were similar to Paleozoic era. The layers of limestone are hard. Some of them were covered by blue silicated limes. However we observed this kind of limestone in Safe-Ali, Navasar and in some part of Deravan Daghi. Also the same kind of limestone have been seen in the western part of Soltan Sanjar.
Some of strata like conglomerate rock and rock-salt have built high elevations, therefore travertine stones lie over them. On the west part, near Ramana, entrance of Zonouz road, the thickness of conglomerate rocks reaches to 50 meters. In the third Cenozoic period, the strata of igneous rocks have been observed on high land of Soltan Sanjar mountain, east of Diragah also on the east part of Oyukhly mountain. In comparison to other layers they are mostly in vertical shape. In the eastern part of Zonouz the landscape of high wall of igneous rocks are extended to the east about 4 kilometers. This igneous rock wall is lying on sand-stone, salt-shale and gypsum formations.
- Quaternary period: In this period, horizontal travertine stones have lain on different formations of salt-shale. This karts travertine has lain in the east part of Zonouz on height of 1800-1900 meters also in the east of Zonouzag having altitude of 2000 meters. Many springs come out from these travertine stones, such as Kal-las-ser and Ali Suei springs.
Climate
Zonouz has continental climate with cold winters and cool summers.
Districts
Zonouz has been divided to 4 districts: Khan Khajeh, Meerjan, Seyedlar and Dibin.
Demography
Race
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- Race: Turk
- Branch: Iranian
==Language== Turki