Scientific Quarterly Journal of Geosciences

Scientific Quarterly Journal of Geosciences

Uranium Mineralization in Neogene Sediments of Talkheh Rud Basin in Tabriz- Ahar Area

Document Type : Original Research Paper

Authors
Fereydoun Sahabi 1
Hasan Mohseni 2
1 Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
2 Department of Geology, Faculty of Sciences, Bu Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran
Abstract
Talkheh Rud is an intermountain basin located within the magmatic arcs of Eocene and late Tertiary age. Cumulative frequency variations of elements such as Uranium, copper, Molybdenum, Vanadium and Cobalt show that mineralization occurred in the Neogene stratigraphic sequence of this basin in the region between cities of Tabriz and Ahar.
A strong dependency between Uranium, Copper, Molybdenum and Vanadium was observed in the coarse clastic beds in Omidcheh area, indicating that the sandstone- type Uranium deposits are post- depositional and of epigenetic origin- While mineralization in Govarchin Carbonaceous shales had taken place during depositional period and syngenetic in nature.
Uranium and other accompanying metallic elements appear to have been leached out of plutonic and volcanic sources in the vicinity of the basin and subsequently deposited in reducing environment dominated on meandering rivers and deltaic sediments.
Keywords
Uranium
Talkheh Rud Basin
Subjects
 
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Scientific Quarterly Journal of Geosciences
Volume 4, Issue 14
Winter 1995, Vol. 4, No. 14
Spring 1995
Pages 44-55