E. Alizadeh; Gh. R. Ghadami; D. Esmaeily; J. Omrani; A. Golmohammadi
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The Roshtkhar intrusive rocks are located in the northeastern part of the Roshtkhar prospecting area (KhorassanRazavi province), along the eastern edge of the Khaf-Kashmar-Bardaskan volcano-plutonic belt, north of the Dorouneh Fault and on the southern part of the Sabzevar structural zone. The intusive ...
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The Roshtkhar intrusive rocks are located in the northeastern part of the Roshtkhar prospecting area (KhorassanRazavi province), along the eastern edge of the Khaf-Kashmar-Bardaskan volcano-plutonic belt, north of the Dorouneh Fault and on the southern part of the Sabzevar structural zone. The intusive rocks consist mainly ofsyenite to monzonite with minor amount of syenite porphyry, monzonite porphyry, and diorite porphyry with granular and porphyry texture, respectively. According to the geochemical data, the Roshtkhar intrusive rocks are calc-alkaline granitoid series with high-K to shoshonitic affinity, magnesian, metaluminous, and belong to I-type granites.Chondrite-normalized Rare Earth Element and mantle-normalized trace-element spider diagrams display enriched in LILE and LREE and also Th, depleted in HFSE and weak depletion in HREE and Y, along with negative anomalies of Nb,Ta, and Ti, that are characteristic of the post-collisional calc-alkaline rocks along with a continental active margin tectonic setting. In spite of the low ratios of Nb/U, Nb/La and Ce/Pb, the Sm/Yb (2.8-3.9) ratios reveals low contamination of magmas with upper continental crust. According to geochemistry of trace elements and REE, the main cause of magmatism in Roshtkhar area was melting of a metasomatized lithospheric mantle (E-MORB) with spinel lherzolite composition accompanied by in the presence of phlogopite. Multiple element and REE pattern, abundance of K2O/Na2O in Roshtkhar intrusive rocks show contamination and mixing with acidic magma ofamphibolitic lower crust due to temperature of mantle magma and AFC process played important roles in magma evolution. La vs. La/sm diagram illustrate partial melting and also according to K, positive anomalies of Rb, Ba, K, Th, U, and Pb, and the negative anomalies of Nb, Ti, Ta, and Ba associated with high La (La > 29), it seems partial melting of lower continental crust has played an important role in the genesis of the Roshtkhargranitoids rocks. Based on field investigation, petrographic studies, and lithogeochemistry using the granitoids discrimination tectonic setting diagrams, it seems that the Roshtkhar intrusive rocks were generated in a post-collisional extensional environment in a continental margin arc setting with partial melting of the mantle-lower crust within the Khaf-Kashmar-Bardaskan belt.
D Esmaeily; M Heidari; R Maghdour-Mashhour
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The Sikhoran Mafic–Ultramafic complex is located in the Sanandaj – Sirjan structural zone. The complex consists of two main rock units: the lower harzburgite - porphyroclastic dunite unit and the upper layered gabbroic cumulate unit. The microstructures and geochemical evidences provided ...
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The Sikhoran Mafic–Ultramafic complex is located in the Sanandaj – Sirjan structural zone. The complex consists of two main rock units: the lower harzburgite - porphyroclastic dunite unit and the upper layered gabbroic cumulate unit. The microstructures and geochemical evidences provided a better understanding of serpentinization and emplacement processes of this complex. The petrographic studies revealed three microstructural types including: High T solid slate microstructure, which occurs mainly in NE of the porphyroclastic dunite unit, Low T solid state microstructure in NE and central parts of dunites – harzburgites, and finally mylonitic - sub mylonitic microstructures, which mainly found in harzburgite unit. Moreover, the vein microstructures outcrop in the mylonitic- submylonitic zone. The veins have been formed by two processes of crack seal and dissolution. Deformations have occurred mainly around the Ashin fault. Hydrothermal fluids have resulted in serpentinization and mobility of iron and also other elements from ferromagnesian minerals of primary peridotites. Serpentinites show the SiO2amountof 38.8-41.7 wt%, and also depletion of Al2O3 and CaO. The depletion in CaO (0.3-0.9 wt %) and Al2O3 (0.1- 1.3) and enrichment in Cr and Ni indicate the depleted parent rock of mantle harzburgite or dunite, and a supra- subduction zone in Cr - TiO2 diagram.
