GH Abbasi; M Ebrahimi; M Sharifi; N Shirdashtzadeh; J Ahmadian
Abstract
The studied volcanic rocks to the northeast of the Gavkhuni playa lake are composed of rhyolite, trachydacite, trachyandesite and pyroclastic rocks including lithic tuff and volcanic breccia. Rhyolitic rocks have flow structure and hyalophyric texture with glassy to cryptocrystalline ...
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The studied volcanic rocks to the northeast of the Gavkhuni playa lake are composed of rhyolite, trachydacite, trachyandesite and pyroclastic rocks including lithic tuff and volcanic breccia. Rhyolitic rocks have flow structure and hyalophyric texture with glassy to cryptocrystalline matrix in which quartz and feldspar crystal are present. The dominant texture in trachydacitic and trachyandesitic rocks in porphyritic texture in which plagioclase and rarely sanidine phynocrysts are set in a glassy to microcrystalline groundmass containing feldspar microlites. In trachydacites, quartz is present as small crystals and rarely as microphynocrysts. Plagioclase phynocrysts in trachydacitic and trachyandesitic rocks display sieve-texture. Amphibole and biotite are the mafic minerals of the volcanic rocks and they are partialy, at rims, or completely altered to Fe-Ti oxides. All of the studied rocks are high- K calc-alkaline in nature. According to the geochemical data, the volcanic rocks are depleted in high field strength elements such as Nb, Ti and Ta and enriched in large ion lithophile elements like Cs, K, Ba, Rb and Th which are characteristics of subduction related volcanic rocks. Nb negative anomaly is characteristic of continental rocks and indicates the continental crust involvement in the magmatic processes. The rocks are enriched in Cs, Rb, Ba and Pb indicating mantle metasomatism by fluids released from subducting oceanic lithosphere. Therefore, magma contamination and mantle metasomatism have affected the magma from which the volcanic rocks of the Gavkhuni playa lake have were generated. The calc-alkaline magmatism in the study area was associated with the closure of the Neotethyan Ocean.
F Sarjoughian; A Kananian; A Esna-Ashari; J Ahmadian
Abstract
The Kuh-e Dom intrusion with calc-alkaline nature, in the northeast of Ardestan is located in the central part of the Urumieh-Dokhtar Magmatic Arc and includes the felsic and intermediate-mafic units. The felsic unit consists of monzogranite, granodiorite, quartz monzonite and quartz monzodiorite, whereas ...
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The Kuh-e Dom intrusion with calc-alkaline nature, in the northeast of Ardestan is located in the central part of the Urumieh-Dokhtar Magmatic Arc and includes the felsic and intermediate-mafic units. The felsic unit consists of monzogranite, granodiorite, quartz monzonite and quartz monzodiorite, whereas the intermediate-basic rocks comprise gabbro, diorite, quartz diorite, monzodiorite and monzonite. The acidic dykes intruded this intrusion and its surrounding rocks. The various mafic microgranular enclaves of dioritic, quartz dioritic, monzodioritic and quartz monzodioritic composition exposed in the acidic rocks. The zircon U-Pb dating by the LA-ICP-MS method indicates that the ages of the felsic rocks, intermediate-mafic rocks, acidic dikes and enclaves are 51.1±0.4 Ma, 53.9±0.4 Ma, 49.95±0.64 Ma and 50.3±0.8 Ma respectively. These ages are in good agreement with the lower-middle Eocene age of the intrusive body, which is simultaneous with subduction of the Neotethys oceanic crust underneath the Central Iran. This result is in agreement with the previous geochemical result.
F Sarjoughian; A Kananian; J Ahmadian
Abstract
The alkali feldspars and plagioclases in the Kuh-e Dom intrusive rocks show compositionally and microtexturally zoning structure. The feldspar crystals in the various lithologies such as granite- granodiorite samples, diorite- gabbro samples and relatively high frequency microgranular mafic enclaves ...
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The alkali feldspars and plagioclases in the Kuh-e Dom intrusive rocks show compositionally and microtexturally zoning structure. The feldspar crystals in the various lithologies such as granite- granodiorite samples, diorite- gabbro samples and relatively high frequency microgranular mafic enclaves existing in the acidic intrusion were analyzed using electron microprobe. The results of the microprobe analysis in the acidic, basic- intermediate rocks and enclaves indicated the normal and reverse zoning in the samples. The chemical compositions of plagioclases ranges from albite (An 9.4) in the rim to labradorite (An: 50.6) in the core for acidic rocks, and from andesine (An: 30.5) in the rim to labradorite (An: 56.4) in the core for the basic- intermediate rocks, and from oligoclase (An: 19.8) to labradorite (An: 66.5) in the enclaves. The frequently of rare elements such as Ba, Sr, Fe and Mg in the feldspars show various and oscillatory patterns. The oscillatory pattern of the major and minor elements from core to rim in the feldspar crystals suggests an effective role of magma mixing phenomena in forming of the Kuh-e Dom intrusion.
