Petrology
Ziba Khodaean Chegeni; Nematollah Rashidnejad Omran; Ali Akbar Baharifar; Reza Nozaem; Carmela Vaccaro; José Francisco Santos
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Takhte-Soleyman ortho-amphibolites as a part of Takab metamorphic complex are located in Northeast Takab. These rocks consist of amphibolite, Garnet-amphibolite, Kyanite-Garnet-amphibolite, Hornblendite and Epidote-amphibolite. Petrography and whole- rock geochemistry show that basalt, andesite and/or ...
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Takhte-Soleyman ortho-amphibolites as a part of Takab metamorphic complex are located in Northeast Takab. These rocks consist of amphibolite, Garnet-amphibolite, Kyanite-Garnet-amphibolite, Hornblendite and Epidote-amphibolite. Petrography and whole- rock geochemistry show that basalt, andesite and/or their intrusive equivalents with calc- alkaline to tholeiitic affinity and even a peridotite could be their protoliths. Trace element and Sr-Nd ratios imply that these rocks were from mantle melt sources. In chondrite normalized plots, these amphibolites can be classified into at least two groups. The first group is characterized by LREE depletion relative to HREEs and some with flat patterns. The second has an enrichment of LREEs relative to HREEs. These two different patterns and some other geochemical characters suggest MORB or MORB-like and arc affinities of the parental magmas. This can be related to the time progressive evolution of magmatism either from MORB or Back-arcto Arc or from Arc to Back-arc setting.
Leili Fathiyan; farhad aliani; ali akbar baharifar; mohamad hossein zarinkoub
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Granitoid bodies of west of Zanjan with Precambrian age are located in northwest of central Iranian structural zone. Based on field observations and microscopic studies, these bodies contain tonalite, granodiorite and monzogranite. Tonalite are I-type, calc-alkaline, and peraluminous (206Pb/238U age ...
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Granitoid bodies of west of Zanjan with Precambrian age are located in northwest of central Iranian structural zone. Based on field observations and microscopic studies, these bodies contain tonalite, granodiorite and monzogranite. Tonalite are I-type, calc-alkaline, and peraluminous (206Pb/238U age of 576±13 Ma) which base on isotopic studies (87Sr/86Sr (i) and εNd (i) values equal to 0.710544, -7.01), and geochemistry of major and trace elements, can concluded that they were resulted from melting of amphibolitic crust that generated from thickened mafic crust or under plate basalts (with presence of plagioclase in source area) in low pressures and depth in an active continental margin. Monzogranites are S-type, peraluminous and calc-alkaline, which is plotted in collision zone. These rocks were generated from melting of crustal rocks (melt derived from pelitic rocks with high plagioclase). Granodiorite are I-type, calc-alkaline and Weakly peraluminous (206Pb/238U age of 548±27 Ma). They have value of 87Sr/86Sr (i) more than 0.705, negative value of εNd (i), and geochemical data, which is generated from partial melting of lower to middle crust, because of thickening and shortening due to continental- continental collision. With respect of geographical location of granitoid bodies of Mahneshan and age of their units, it seems that these granitoid rocks have formed in an active continental margin during convergence of Central Iran and Alborz-Azarbayjan with Arabian platform during Precambrian
A. Saki; A. A. Baharifar
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Intrusion of the Alvand complex (intrusions formed during Jurassic) into the host metapelitic rocks (schists) created pelitic hornfelses and anatectic migmatites in the Alvand aureole. Partial melting in the Alvand aureole was restricted to pelitic bulk compositions. Existing of spinel-quartz minerals ...
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Intrusion of the Alvand complex (intrusions formed during Jurassic) into the host metapelitic rocks (schists) created pelitic hornfelses and anatectic migmatites in the Alvand aureole. Partial melting in the Alvand aureole was restricted to pelitic bulk compositions. Existing of spinel-quartz minerals and appearance of orthopyroxene in these rocks marks the transition from amphibolite- to granulite-facies conditions, and is commonly attributed to the process of fluid-absent partial melting. Reactions Sil/And + Bt = Crd + Spl+ Kfs + melt and Bt+Als+Pl+Qtz = Grt+Kfs+melt, are the most reactions for the development of melt in the metapelitic rocks of Alvand aureole. This metamorphism is mainly controlled by conductive heat transter through magmatic intrusions into all levels of the crust. The Hamadan metamorphic rocks have experienced multiple episodes of metamorphism driven by burial and heating during arc construction and collision during subduction of a Neotethyan seaway and subsequent oblique collision of Afro-Arabia (Gondwana) with the Iranian microcontinent in the Jurassic-Cretaceous, and these events are associated with local partial melting at high grades, near the Alvand complex pluton.
A. A. Baharifar
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Chloritoid as one of the common metamorphic mineral in low to medium grade metapelites, is absent in metapelitic rocks of Hamedan area. Comparing with geochemical limitations for Chloritoid appearance in metapelites, whole rock composition of the area is suitable for Chloritoid formation. Since P, T ...
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Chloritoid as one of the common metamorphic mineral in low to medium grade metapelites, is absent in metapelitic rocks of Hamedan area. Comparing with geochemical limitations for Chloritoid appearance in metapelites, whole rock composition of the area is suitable for Chloritoid formation. Since P, T and X are in appropriate range for Chloritoid, the role of fluid could be important. Microscopic investigations show that all metapelitic rocks are in equilibrium with graphite and fluid composition is combination of CO2 and H2O. Based on estimated P and T, highest portion of H2O in the fluid, could be 0.9. Although this is highest approximation, it can conclude that for Chloritoid appearance, XH2O in fluid must be more than 0.9. Since in the Hamedan area staurolite is widespread and Chloritoid is absent - considering almost same composition between chloritoid and staurolite - the composition of fluid is more important. There are many doubts in geochemical limitations for Chloritoid appearance. Considering the results of this study and in the case of attention to fluid composition, geochemical limitations will change and Chloritoid could appear in many rocks, as its higher temperature equivalent, staurolite.