Economic Geology
Hossein Bagherpour; Mir Ali Asghar Mokhtari; Hossein Kouhestani; Ghasem Nabatian
Abstract
Qoyjeh Yeylaq volcanic rocks is located approximately in the 120 km southwest of Zanjan, within the Central Iranian zone. The rock units in this area belong to the Cenozoic which consist of mainly Oligo-Miocene volcanic (Basaltic- andesitic lavas) and sedimentary rocks. Based on geochemical classification, ...
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Qoyjeh Yeylaq volcanic rocks is located approximately in the 120 km southwest of Zanjan, within the Central Iranian zone. The rock units in this area belong to the Cenozoic which consist of mainly Oligo-Miocene volcanic (Basaltic- andesitic lavas) and sedimentary rocks. Based on geochemical classification, the mentioned volcanic rocks are basalt, basaltic andesite and andesite in composition, and have calc- alkaline to high-K calc-alkaline affinity. In the primitive mantle normalized spider diagrams, all of the volcanic rocks show similar patterns with enrichment in LILE (Ba, Th, K, Pb) and negative anomalies of HFSE (Nb, Ti). These rocks show LREE enrichment relative to HREE and high ratio of LREE/HREE. Based on tectonomagmatic discrimination diagrams these volcanic rocks were formed in a continental arc setting. Based on geochemical data, it seems that volcanic rocks of the Qoyjeh Yeylaq area were formed from 5-20 % partial melting of a garnet- spinel lherzolite enriched mantle by subduction of Neo-Tethys under the central Iran, within the Orumieh- Dokhtar magmatic arc.
