Scientific Quarterly Journal of Geosciences

Scientific Quarterly Journal of Geosciences

Relative Strain Pattern in Ali Abad Damagh Granitoid

Document Type : Original Research Paper

Authors
R. Samanizadegan
M. Mohajjel
10.22071/gsj.2011.54209
Abstract
The Ali Abad Damag granitoid is intruded in Triassic-Jurassic schists located 35km south of Hamadan, southeast of the Alvand batholith. Northeast-southwest oriented mylonitised Ali Abad Damag granitoid has been intruded into a strike-slip dextral ductile shear zone. Abundant deformed enclaves exist in this granitoid that all were strongly elongated along the main extension direction (X axis). The elongation of the enclaves is concordant with the strain rate and development of the mylonitic foliation and stretching lineation. Structural analysis of exposed rocks in this shear zone indicates that the mylonitic foliation is sub-vertical or steeply dipping to NW in the western half and shallowly to moderately dipping to the same direction in the eastern half, but the stretching lineation is sub-horizontal sub-parallel to the strike of the mylonitic foliation throughout the shear zone. Dextral strike-slip displacement is identified by the shear sense indicators. The change of foliation dip of the eastern half against the western part is interpreted by rotation along the NW-SE trending Darreh-Gar strike-slip fault.
 
Keywords
deformation
Granitoid
Ali Abad Damagh
Shear zone
Deformed Enclaves
Strain Analysis
 
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Scientific Quarterly Journal of Geosciences
Volume 21, Issue 81
Autumn 2011
Pages 69-74