B. Hosseini; M. Mohammadi Siyani; A. R. Ahmadi
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Quaternary volcanic activities in Alamut Valley occurred in three stages and covered Neogene red sedimentary rocks. The volcanic rocks are intermediate in composition and are classified as hornblende trachyandesite. The SiO2 content of the rocks varies in a range from 55.48-61.88 wt%. Chondrite normalized ...
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Quaternary volcanic activities in Alamut Valley occurred in three stages and covered Neogene red sedimentary rocks. The volcanic rocks are intermediate in composition and are classified as hornblende trachyandesite. The SiO2 content of the rocks varies in a range from 55.48-61.88 wt%. Chondrite normalized REE patterns exhibit a steep arrangement of LREEs and MREEs (La/Ho)N =85 and a relatively flat HREE (Ho/Lu)N =1.3., Large ion lithophile elements (LILE) do not show strong enrichment compared to LREEs in mantle normalized multi-element spider diagrams. Nb andTa are slightly depleted compared to neighboring light rare earth elements. These rocks have high Sr/Y (140-205), La/Yb (113-142) ratios, accompanied by high K2O/Na2O (0.7-0.9) and resemble C-Type adakites. Geochemical evidence suggest that these rocks are resulted from partial melting of thickened eclogitic lower crust in presence of abundant residual garnet. Partial melting of lower continental crust probably triggered by thickening of crust as a result of late Cenozoic orogenic phases especially the Passadenian Orogenic phase.
B. Hosseini; A. R. Ahmadi; M. Ghanbari Dolatabadi
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A suite of dykes at the north of Mashad –Ardehal which intruded into the Eocene volcanic and sedimentary rocks represents part of Tertiary volcanism in middle part of the Urumieh-Dokhtar magmatic belt. The rocks are cogenetic and are mainly basaltic andesite, andesite and trachy andesite ...
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A suite of dykes at the north of Mashad –Ardehal which intruded into the Eocene volcanic and sedimentary rocks represents part of Tertiary volcanism in middle part of the Urumieh-Dokhtar magmatic belt. The rocks are cogenetic and are mainly basaltic andesite, andesite and trachy andesite in composition and belong to tholeiitic and medium-K calc alkaline series. Chondrite-normalized REE patterns exhibit moderate enrichment in LREE relative to MREE. Enrichment in LILE and depletion in HFSE relative to REE on multi-element diagrams is similar to subduction related magmatic rocks. From the geochemical point of view, these rocks demonstrate intermediate characteristics of active continental margins and island arcs settings. Geochemical evidences and also association of the magmatic rocks with green tuffite and other shallow marine sedimentary rocks suggest that the rocks generated in an extensional continental (ensialic) back-arc basin.
B Hosseini; A.R Ahmadi
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Deformed granitoid rocks from North Saman represent part of magmatic activity in Sanandaj-Sirjan during the Mesozoic. The granitoid rocks intruded as separate intrusions into metamorphosed rocks which have protolith ages of the Palaeozoic and Mezosoic. The intruded granitoid rocks have been deformed ...
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Deformed granitoid rocks from North Saman represent part of magmatic activity in Sanandaj-Sirjan during the Mesozoic. The granitoid rocks intruded as separate intrusions into metamorphosed rocks which have protolith ages of the Palaeozoic and Mezosoic. The intruded granitoid rocks have been deformed as a result of subsequent tectonic activities. Zircon U-Pb ages of crystals extracted from the granitoid rocks gave ages of 182 ± 4 Ma and indicate that the granitoid rocks crystallized in the Toarcian stage of the lower Jurassic. The major and trace element goechemistry suggests a subduction-related, active continental margin setting for the granitoid bodies. The occurrences of numerous Jurassic granitoids reveal the importance of magmatic activities of this period in the Sanandaj-Sirjan zone.
Behnaz Hosseini; M. Ghorbani; S. M. Pourmoafi; A. R. Ahmadi
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Kuh-Sefid anticline trends in NW-SE direction and locates in southern Sanandaj-Sirjan zone, and it contains a sequence of Paleozoic metamorphic rocks with facies ranging from greenschist to lower amphibolite. There are granitoid rocks emplaced in the core of this anticline, which based on their facies, ...
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Kuh-Sefid anticline trends in NW-SE direction and locates in southern Sanandaj-Sirjan zone, and it contains a sequence of Paleozoic metamorphic rocks with facies ranging from greenschist to lower amphibolite. There are granitoid rocks emplaced in the core of this anticline, which based on their facies, these rocks are divided into two groups of "augen geneiss " and "metagranitoid". During the course of previous studies, these two rock groups had been attributed to a magmatic phase in Mesozoic, which experienced different degrees of deformation. In this study we proceed to determine the age of these two granitoid rock groups based on U-Pb age dating method applied on Zircon minerals. As a result, the age of orthogneiss rocks is 514±24 million years old and they belong to Cambrian, whereas metagranitoid rocks are 173±9 million years old and attributed to Middle Jurassic. Based on geological and structural evidences, the magmatism occurred in Cambrian was related to tension tectonics in Late Precambrian to Early Paleozoic, while the magmatism in Middle Jurassic associated with dextral transpression tectonics in the studied area.
