Sedimentology
Mahdi Ghaderi; Mohsen Moayyed; Nasir Amel; Monire Mojarrad
Abstract
The Saray volcano is located on the East of the Urmia Lake. This extinct stratovolcano mainly consists of Leucitite lavas and related pyroclasts. Dykes with composition of Leucite phonolite, Lamprophyre, Trachyte and microsyenite intruded into leucitite. Field evidences indicate that minette and trachytic ...
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The Saray volcano is located on the East of the Urmia Lake. This extinct stratovolcano mainly consists of Leucitite lavas and related pyroclasts. Dykes with composition of Leucite phonolite, Lamprophyre, Trachyte and microsyenite intruded into leucitite. Field evidences indicate that minette and trachytic dykes intruded into each other. A microsyenitic stock and dykes outcrops in the central valley of this volcano. The trachytic pyroclasts eruption is the last activity of the Saray volcano and probably caused the destruction of volcanoe’s caldera and formed its current shape. Leucitites maimly consist of leucite and clinopyroxene phonocrysts, minettes consist of biotite and clinopyroxene phenocrysts and trachytes consist of biotite, sanidine and clinopyroxene phenocrysts. The Saray magmatism has potassic to ultrapotassic nature and its geochemical features indicate that this magma should be originated from a micaceous garnet clinopyroxenite mantle. The coexistance of leucitite, lamprophyre and trachyte, could not be explained only by the function of fractional crystallization in leucitite magma. Sanidine is the most abundant feldspar in the Saray volcano. Sanidine megacrysts crystalize in a medium size magma chamber with continuing temperature cycling, so that the magma temperature remains close to the liquidus temperature of the K-feldspar for a long time.
Petrology
Mohsen Moayyed; Mohamad Amin Safikhani; Robab Hajialioghli; Nasir Amel; Ahmad Jahangiri
Abstract
The study area is located at the Mishow mountain ranges in NW Marand town. The main outcropping rocks are Pliocene volcanic and volcaniclastic rocks. Lamprophyre, mica pyroxenite, amphibolite and carbonate rocks occure as xenoliths within andesites. The main rock forming minerals for lamprophyre xenolith ...
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The study area is located at the Mishow mountain ranges in NW Marand town. The main outcropping rocks are Pliocene volcanic and volcaniclastic rocks. Lamprophyre, mica pyroxenite, amphibolite and carbonate rocks occure as xenoliths within andesites. The main rock forming minerals for lamprophyre xenolith are coarse grained biotite, clinopyroxene and rare plagioclase within a matrix composed of the same crystals with porphyric and hyaloporphyric textures. These can be classified as kersantite. Mica pyroxenite xenolith is composed of clinopyroxene, biotite, plagioclase, (±) hornblende and opaque phases. Plagioclase, clinopyroxene as well as rare amphibole and biotite are seen as scattered magmatic crystals within carbonate matrix in the carbonate xenolith. On the basis of mineral chemistry of clinopyroxene, magma nature for the lamprophyre and mica pyroxenite xenoliths has been detremined as calc-alkaline. Clinopyroxene composition indicates high fugacity of oxygen for lamprophyre and mica pyroxenite xenoliths. The estimated temperatures are 1100C-1200C, 1080C-800C for mica pyroxenite and lamprophyre respectively at pressures of 5-10 kbar. The pressure and temperature of amphibolite xenolith have been estimated based on amphibole geothermobarometer as 750-800 (±12oC) and 6.2±0.6 kbar, respectively.
A Kamali; M Moayyed; N Amel; M.R Hosainzadeh
Abstract
Sungun Cu-Mo porphyry deposit is located in East Azarbaijan province and at northwest of Iran. From the petrology viewpoint, the Sungun copper mine is consisted of porphyry Sungun (SP), and eight categories of delayed dykes made of quartz-diorite (DK1 (a, b, c)), gabbro-diorite (DK2), diorite (DK3), ...
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Sungun Cu-Mo porphyry deposit is located in East Azarbaijan province and at northwest of Iran. From the petrology viewpoint, the Sungun copper mine is consisted of porphyry Sungun (SP), and eight categories of delayed dykes made of quartz-diorite (DK1 (a, b, c)), gabbro-diorite (DK2), diorite (DK3), dacite (DK4), lamprophyre (LAM) and micro-diorite (MDI). The main minerals of lamprophyric dyke are biotite, plagioclase, K-feldspar, and amphibole with porphyritic and microlithic porphyre textures. Lamprophyric dykes in the studied area have alkali-basalt composition and based on whole rock geochemistry is originated from a shoshonitic magma. Minerals chemistry analysis revealed that the composition of plagioclase varies from oligoclase to albite, amphibole is Magnesiohornblende and biotite composition varies from siderophyllite to eastonite. Lamprophyric dykes have been originated from a magma with high oxygen fugacity. Based on biotite thermometry, the temperature of biotite crystallization in lamprophyric dyke was 650 to 750°C. According to the mineralogical and geochemical evidence, studied lamprophyre samples are of kersantite type and belong to calk-alkaline lamprophyres. Multi-element diagrams normalized to chondrite and primitive mantle indicates LREE and LILE enrichment and HREE and HFSE depletion in the lamprophyre dykes Sungun. Based on trace elements ratio diagram of La/Sm vs. La parental magmas can have been generated from low degree partial melting of subcontinental mantle source with garnet-lherzolite composition. The dykes formed in Post-collisional geotectonic environment of the studied samples and trace element geochemical evidence indicate that produced magma formed from a metasomatic mantle due to an ancient subduction.
