R Jamali Ashtiani; Hassanzadeh J; M Rahgoshay; A Sharifi
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The Sanandaj-Sirjan zone is a NW-SE trending orogenic belt immediately north of the Zagros suture, which represents the former position of the Neotethys Ocean. This zone includes a Pan-African basement similar to the various terranes to the north in Central Iran. The crystalline basement is nonconformably ...
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The Sanandaj-Sirjan zone is a NW-SE trending orogenic belt immediately north of the Zagros suture, which represents the former position of the Neotethys Ocean. This zone includes a Pan-African basement similar to the various terranes to the north in Central Iran. The crystalline basement is nonconformably overlain by the Paleozoic-Triassic platform sediments, which in turn are unconformably covered by sedimentary and volcanic strata of the Jurassic arc. The Cretaceous carbonates overlie the older rocks with a regional angular unconformity. The Chadegan high-P metamorphic complex exposed along the upper Zayanderoud and consists of quartz schists, amphibolites, gneisses, marbles and eclogites, and is nonconformably underlain by the fossiliferous Permian carbonates, suggesting a Pre-Permian age. In this paper we present new data including whole rock major and trace element compositions, mineral chemistry and radiogenic isotope data for the selected metabasites. The high field strength element (HFSE) abundances and Sr-Nd-Hf ratios suggest tholeiitic compositions with distinct within plate affinity rather than MORB. We also present new 206Pb/238U zircon age of 568.0 ± 5.3 Ma for a crosscutting orthogneiss reconfirming the Late Neoproterozoic age for the granitic protolith. We conclude that previously presented Ar-Ar ages for white-micas in eclogites and gneisses are indicative of metamorphic crystallization due to the regional plutonic arc activity. A comparison is made with the well-investigated Menderes Massif in Turkey where an orthogneiss-metabsite association with similar age and chemistry makes extensive exposures. We also conclude that this rock complex is extended from Zayanderoud to Khoy and beyond to the Menderes Massif and discuss the connection with the final amalgamation tectonics of the Gondwana near the beginning of the Cambrian Period.
F Padyar; M Rahgoshay; S Alirezaei; M Pourmoafi; A Tarantola; O Vanderhaeghe; M Caumon
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The Latala base and precious metals deposit is hosted by quartz veins, associated with a porphyry pluton intruded into a Cenozoic volcanic sequence. Euhedral quartz with sulfide mineralization such as pyrite, chalcopyrite, galena and sphalerite, with minor sulfosalts occurs in these veins as open space ...
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The Latala base and precious metals deposit is hosted by quartz veins, associated with a porphyry pluton intruded into a Cenozoic volcanic sequence. Euhedral quartz with sulfide mineralization such as pyrite, chalcopyrite, galena and sphalerite, with minor sulfosalts occurs in these veins as open space fillings and minor replacement bodies. Progressive growth of quartz crystals is evidenced by their texture revealed by cathodoluminescence imaging. The analysis of fluid inclusions indicate a decreasing homogenization temperature from 350°C in the core to 135°C along the edge of the quartz crystals with overgrowths. The presence of CO2 vapor suggested by the thermometric analysis is confirmed by Raman spectrometry. The solid phases in fluid inclusions identified as phyllosilicates, presumably muscovite and illite, chlorite, quartz and carbonate-mineral such as (Natrocarbonate, Dawsonite) by petrography and Raman spectrometry. Solid phase of halite were identified in two fluid inclusions. The homogenization temperature and salinity varies between 131 to 380 °C and 0.17 to 7.7 wt.% NaCl eq respectively. The properties of fluid inclusions corresponds to a magmatic hydrothermal fluid circulating from depth to shallower environments. The sulfur isotopic composition for galena, sphalerite, chalcopyrite and pyrite varies between -9.8 and -1‰, which correspond to values of magmatic sulfur. The δ34S values from +1.8 to -9.2‰ are in the range of hydrothermal fluids. Fluid inclusions features show a magmatic hydrothermal source which transported magmatic fluid and vapor from the depth through fractures to shallow environment. It suggests that magmatic water mixing with meteoric water was responsible for transportation of metals in Latala. Epithermal mineral precipitation during boiling, mixing and water-rock interaction formed hydrothermal quartz and sulfide mineralization. The available evidence suggests that the hydrothermal fluids changed from magmatic to epithermal in the region.
F Kozekoulani; M Rahgoshay; H Shafaii Moghadam
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Intrusive rocks from SW Salmas include mafic-intermediate and acidic rocks, which occur in the border of Sanandaj-Sirjan and Urmia-Dokhtar zones in Northwest of Iran. The mafic-intermediate rocks comprise metadiorite and metagabbros that are the oldest rocks in the region. The acidic rocks include metagranite ...
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Intrusive rocks from SW Salmas include mafic-intermediate and acidic rocks, which occur in the border of Sanandaj-Sirjan and Urmia-Dokhtar zones in Northwest of Iran. The mafic-intermediate rocks comprise metadiorite and metagabbros that are the oldest rocks in the region. The acidic rocks include metagranite and metagranodiorite. These rocks have intruded into the Precambrian metamorphosed volcanic-sedimentary rocks. U-Pb zircon dating of the Salmas metagranite and metagranodiric rocks yielded age ranges of 565±2/7 Ma to 567±2/4 Ma (Ediacaran-Early Cambrian). Zircons have inherited cores. Zircon Hf isotope data (and Hf model ages) indicate that these rocks are not juvenile mantle melt derived but instead are products of juvenile melts interaction with old Mesoproterozoic continental crust. Furthermore, zircon δ18O values suggest contribution of continental crustal rocks during generation of the Salmas rocks. The Salmas Cadomian rocks are coeval with other similar-aged metagranites and gneisses from Central Iran, Sanandaj-Sirjan zone and Alborz Mountains. All these dispersed basement rocks are suggested to be fragments of the Neoproterozoic-early Cambrian magmatism of northern margin of Gondwana.
