Petrology
Hamid Karimzadeh; Mohammad Rahgoshay; Iman Monsef
Abstract
The petrographical examination of peridotites of the Nehbandan ophiolitic complex revealed that the peridotites of Kalateh Shahpouri, Qadamgah, Lah-Kouh, Cheshmeh anjir, Bandan, and Zolfaghari were of harzburgite type and Sefid-Kouh and Nasfandeh-Kouh were of lherzolite type. Generally, the types of ...
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The petrographical examination of peridotites of the Nehbandan ophiolitic complex revealed that the peridotites of Kalateh Shahpouri, Qadamgah, Lah-Kouh, Cheshmeh anjir, Bandan, and Zolfaghari were of harzburgite type and Sefid-Kouh and Nasfandeh-Kouh were of lherzolite type. Generally, the types of clinopyroxenes in the peridotites of this complex were diopside. The geochemical investigation of clinopyroxenes in Mg# vs. Al2O3, Cr2O3, and TiO2 graphs and Ti vs. Nd, Zr, and Sr graphs shows that the peridotites of Nasfandeh-Kouh, Bandan, Zolfaghari, and Sefid-Kouh with a low degree of partial melting belong to the Abyssal tectonic setting and back-arc basin.on the other side, the harzburgites of Kalateh Shahpouri and Cheshmeh anjir were formed in the Supra-subduction zone tectonic setting and fore-arc basin and have a high degree of partial melting. The study of incompatible elements, LILE and HFSE in spider diagrams normalized to the primary mantle and as well as the study of REEs in spider diagrams normalized to the chondrite for clinopyroxenes confirm this issue. Therefore, Nasfandeh-Kouh and Sefid-Kouh lherzolites as well as Qadamgah, Lah-Kouh, Bandan, and Zolfaghari harzburgites with a low degree of depletion were more consistent with the Mid-oceanic ridgestectonic setting, and the harzburgites of Kalateh Shahpouri and Cheshmeh anjir were close to the Supra-subduction zone tectonic setting with a high degree of depletion.
Petrology
Siavash Omidianfar; mohammad rahgoshay; Iman Monsef
Abstract
Koudakan Granitoid located in 100 km South of Birjand and 18 km North of Ghaleh-Zari mine in eastern Iran. It belong to the Lut Block volcanic–plutonic belt. These intrusive rocks (Eocene-Oligocene) petrogaphicaly composed of Diorite, Monzodiorite, Quartzmonzodiorite, Tonalite, Porphyritic Tonalite, ...
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Koudakan Granitoid located in 100 km South of Birjand and 18 km North of Ghaleh-Zari mine in eastern Iran. It belong to the Lut Block volcanic–plutonic belt. These intrusive rocks (Eocene-Oligocene) petrogaphicaly composed of Diorite, Monzodiorite, Quartzmonzodiorite, Tonalite, Porphyritic Tonalite, Granodiorite, Granite and Porphyritic Granite. Plutonic rocks in this area have features typical of high-K calc-alkaline to shoshonite series, metaluminous and belong to I-type Granitoides. Enrichment in LILE rather than HFSE (RbN/YN: 38.12-124.93), negative anomalies of Nb and Ti and enrichment in LREE rather than HREE (LaN/YbN: 6.74-12.03) in all of samples are important evidences for the formation of this rocks in a subduction related magmatic belt. Positive anomalies of Pb and K indicate the involvement of continental crust in evolution of parental magma. Parallel trend of the samples in spider diagrams show that they are co-genetic. Elements ratios and Different discrimination diagrams show the formation of this rocks in an active continental margin with about less than 45 Km crustal thickness in per-collision steps. Parental magma has been generated by low degree partial melting (less than 5%) of an enriched peridotite in mantle wedge (Spinel lherzolite.).
