Petrology
Mohammad Saadat; Robab Hajialioghli; Mohssen Moazzen
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The Qotur metamorphic complex in west of Khoy is consist of various metamorphic rocks including of metabasites, metapelitic and meta-calcareous rocks and serpentinites. The metagabbros form main outcropping rocks in the area. Plagioclase and pyroxene are the main porphyroclasts of metagabbros. Epidote, ...
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The Qotur metamorphic complex in west of Khoy is consist of various metamorphic rocks including of metabasites, metapelitic and meta-calcareous rocks and serpentinites. The metagabbros form main outcropping rocks in the area. Plagioclase and pyroxene are the main porphyroclasts of metagabbros. Epidote, tremolite/actinolite, calcite and chlorite are formed during low grade metamorphism of these rocks. Based on geochemistry results, protolite compositions of the investigated rocks are plotted on the gabbroic field of the classification diagram. They have calc-alkaline magmatic series. Considering the discrimination tectonic diagrams the Qotur metagabbroic rocks have been formed at the island arc tectonic setting. On the basis of U-Pb zircon geochronological data, the rocks are formed at 162.6±7.6 Ma corresponds to the late Jurassic (Oxfordian). On the basis of results obtained from isotopic dating and geochemical data of the Qotur metagabbros, we suppose that they formed related to the sialic back arc basin of Neotethys, Jurrasic Island arc rocks of Sevan-Akera zone corresponds to the North branch of Neotethys oceanic suture and/or in continuation of the Piranshahr and Serow ophiolites as a Zagros-Bitlis Zone. However perecise results will be need to tectonic works and more geochemical and isotopic data from variety of metamorphic and igneous rocks.
Petrology
haleh ghorbani; robab hajialioghli; mohsen moazzen
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The Ghareh naz migmatites were formed as a result of partial melting of amphibolites under granulite facies conditions. Structeral, textural, mineralogical and geochemical evidence in the migmatites migmatites indicates their formation via partial melting during partial melting. The studied migmatites ...
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The Ghareh naz migmatites were formed as a result of partial melting of amphibolites under granulite facies conditions. Structeral, textural, mineralogical and geochemical evidence in the migmatites migmatites indicates their formation via partial melting during partial melting. The studied migmatites have a variety of structures including patchy, scholen, ophthalmitic, stromatic, diktyonitic, ptygmatic, phlebetic, schliren, pegmatitoid and nebulitic. The presence of striated plagioclases and amorphous quartzes along with granular texture, myrmecite and peritite in the locosome parts as well as the presence of zoning, polysynthetic twin in the plagioclases indicate a partial melting role in the formation of migmatites. Based on mass balance calculations in the ghareh naz migmatites, the parts of the migmatite components of the locosome, melanosome, and mesosome are aligned in a straight line, indicating a partial melting source of the studied migmatites.The percentage of partial melting for the studied megmatites was calculated to be about 36.5% and 43.6%,respectively. The difference in partial melting percentages may depend on the relationship between the rate and melt outflow and to a small extent on the amount of melt in the region. The formation temperature of these migmatites is determinated about 850-850 ° C and the pressure is about 6-7 kbar.
Petrology
Zohreh Salimi; mohsen moazzen; Robab hajialioghli
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The ophiolitic-metamorphic complex of Allahyarlu, attributed to pre-Cretaceous, is exposed at the core of Allahyarlu anticline in NW Iran and NE of Meshginshahr. The metamorphic rocks are important constituents of this complex. These rocks include garnet schist, garnet gneiss, amphibolite, marble, associated ...
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The ophiolitic-metamorphic complex of Allahyarlu, attributed to pre-Cretaceous, is exposed at the core of Allahyarlu anticline in NW Iran and NE of Meshginshahr. The metamorphic rocks are important constituents of this complex. These rocks include garnet schist, garnet gneiss, amphibolite, marble, associated with blocks of serpentinite and tectonic slices of gabbro, dunite and diabase. Quartz, garnet, biotite, muscovite and chlorite are the primary minerals in the garnet schists, while zircon, secondary chlorite, opaque minerals and plagioclase make the minor phases. The main minerals in the garnet gneiss samples are K-feldspar, quartz, plagioclase, muscovite, biotite and garnet and tourmaline, zircon and secondary chlorite are the minor phases. Garnet in garnet schists and garnet gneisses is almandine-rich and white mica is muscovite –rich. According to microprobe analyses, brunvigite is the main constituent in chlorite solid-solution. Te average temperature estimated for metamorphism of garnet schists and garnet gneisses, using different methods is 530 to 570 C. Using apetrogenetic grid indicates pressure of ca. 4.5 kbar for the paek of metamorphism. The estimated pressure and temperature are in accordance of Barrovian metamorphic gradient for these rocks, which occurs in crustal thickenning zones such as island arcs, volcanic arcs and collision zones.
Petrology
Mohsen Moayyed; Mohamad Amin Safikhani; Robab Hajialioghli; Nasir Amel; Ahmad Jahangiri
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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 ...
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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.
M. R. Rezapour; V. Simmonds; M. Moazzen; R. Hajialioghli
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The Qohrud granitoid body of Miocene age is located 40 km SW Kashan, ranging in composition from granite through granodiorite to tonalite. Hydrothermal activities following the magma intrusion have brought about formation of various coarse automorphic and colored quartz crystals within the fractures ...
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The Qohrud granitoid body of Miocene age is located 40 km SW Kashan, ranging in composition from granite through granodiorite to tonalite. Hydrothermal activities following the magma intrusion have brought about formation of various coarse automorphic and colored quartz crystals within the fractures and cavities of different lithologies. The quartz crystal varieties include transparent, semi-transparent, pale green, yellow and black crystals, as well as those with smoky and reddish brown roots and also crystals containing tiny acicular rutile inclusions. Mineral chemistry, as well as fluid and solid inclusion studies on the colored and automorphic quartz crystals indicate that various physical and chemical factors, such as temperature, pressure, magma and host rock compositions, hydrothermal fluids and the associated alterations, as well as pH and Eh were involved in the formation of these automorphic colored crystals. The solid inclusions within these automorphic quartz crystals might have formed in two ways: 1) introduction of the necessary elements for the formation of quartz and the solid inclusions by the fluids and then, entrapment of these inclusions within the growth layers of quartz crystals; 2) direct introduction of very fine mineral particles within the growth layers of quartz, leading to occurrence of various colored crystals. Smoky crystals can be formed by the replacement of Si by Al and also by the presence of U and Th within them. The reddish color of quartz crystals was recognized as the result of the presence of fine rutile needles. Automorphic black-colored quartz crystals are formed at oxidant and almost high pH conditions by initial precipitation of magnetite and then, manganese oxides at the outermost growth layers. The green quartz crystals have been resulted from chloritic and epidotic alterations within the host and neighboring rocks.
K. Mohammadiha; M. Moazzen; U. Altenberger; R. Hajialioghli
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The Mashhad ultramafic complex with a Permo-Triassic stratigraphic age is exposed at the NE of Binaloud Mountain and at the vicinity of the Mashhad city. This area is mainly composed of mafic and ultramafic rocks, metamorphosed carbonate and pelitic rocks and granitoids with a NW- SE trend. Serpentinized ...
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The Mashhad ultramafic complex with a Permo-Triassic stratigraphic age is exposed at the NE of Binaloud Mountain and at the vicinity of the Mashhad city. This area is mainly composed of mafic and ultramafic rocks, metamorphosed carbonate and pelitic rocks and granitoids with a NW- SE trend. Serpentinized peridotites are the main types of ultramafic rocks in this area. Minerals in these rocks include olivine, orthopyroxene, clinopyroxene, brown amphibole and opaque minerals as the original minerals and serpentinite group minerals (lizardite and antigorite), tremolite-actinolite, chlorite, talc and carbonate minerals are the secondary minerals. High pressure-low temperature metamorphic rocks, which are indicative of subduction are not present in this area, but according to the major, minor and rare earth elements chemistry of the Mashhad serpentinites, these rocks show subducted serpentinites features, with a peridotite protolith derived from lherzolite or olivine-poor harzburgite. The protolith of these rocks metasomatized and refertilized by melt formed in a subduction zone before serpentinization.
R. Hajialioghli; M. Moazzen
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The Prototethys ocean is formed between tow giant continents of Gondwana in the north and Eurasia in the south. Iranian terrain as neigburhood countries in the Oman, Pakestan, SE Turkey has been belonged to the giant Gondwana during Precambrian and Paleozoic. Precambrian terrains in Iran show limited ...
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The Prototethys ocean is formed between tow giant continents of Gondwana in the north and Eurasia in the south. Iranian terrain as neigburhood countries in the Oman, Pakestan, SE Turkey has been belonged to the giant Gondwana during Precambrian and Paleozoic. Precambrian terrains in Iran show limited out crops including of middle part of the Central Iran in Saghand and Poshtbadam regions, Uromiyeh, Zanjan, Golpayegan, Anabolaghi (in Miyaneh) and Takab. The Takht-e-Soleyman metamorphic complex is located in the north eastern Takab. It is composed of variety of metamorphic rocks including metapelites, metabasites, calc-silicates and meta-ultramafic rocks. On the basis of fieldgeology, petrology and zircon U/Pb isotopic data, the Takht-e-Soleyman complex is comparable with the Central Iranian micro-continent. On the basis of 207Pb/206Pb isotopic data, age of the oldest hetrogen fragments rocks in the Takht-e-Soleyman continental crust gives ca. 2800 Ma, which is comparable with the ages from the Central Iran Micro-continent (ca. 2400 Ma). The regional metamorphism of the basement rocks in the Takht-e-Soleyman complex occurred during compressional regimes related to the Katangan Orogeny corresponding to the Precambrian. Partial melting of the metamorphic rocks has been occurred during Oligocene to Miocene corresponding to the final continental collision of the Neotethys ocean. Migmatites of the Takht-e-Soleyman complex are formed in this regard.
Z. Azimzadeh; M. H. Emami; R. Hajialioghli
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The Zand-Abad area is located in NW Ahar of north Azerbaijan. Magmatic rocks in this area consists of granitoids including monzogranite, granodiorite, monzonite and syenogranite as well as mafic rocks mainly diorite and associated extrusive rocks as andesite, trachyandesite, dacite, trachydacite, rhyolite. ...
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The Zand-Abad area is located in NW Ahar of north Azerbaijan. Magmatic rocks in this area consists of granitoids including monzogranite, granodiorite, monzonite and syenogranite as well as mafic rocks mainly diorite and associated extrusive rocks as andesite, trachyandesite, dacite, trachydacite, rhyolite. Subvolcanic rocks are porphyritic diorite and porphyritic monzodiorite. According to the different geochemical studies, the tectonic environment of Zand-Abad volcanic and plutonic rocks is determined as continental arc setting related to dilatory creep down subduction. This will be interpreted in relation with the Neotethyse post-collision activities. Considering the mineralogy and chemical evidence, we suggest that the Zand-Abad magmatic rock types (i.e. volcanic, sub-volcanic and plutonic rocks) have been derived from single magmatic source and undergone fractional crystallization, magma mixing and crustal contamination, resulting from hybrid granitoids. Magmatic series of the different types of magmatic rocks is alkaline. Calc-alkaline and shoshonite property of some samples is interpreted related to magma mixing and crustal contamination processes.
R. Hajialioghli; A. Jahangiri; M. Moazzen; G.T.R. Droop; R. Bousquet
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The igneous rocks of Takht-e-Soleyman area in the north western Iran crop out in association with the amphibolites. The contact between igneous rocks and amphibolites is sharp. Igneous rocks in the study area are mainly granodiorite, quartz-monzodiorite and quartz-diorite. Plagioclase and hornblende ...
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The igneous rocks of Takht-e-Soleyman area in the north western Iran crop out in association with the amphibolites. The contact between igneous rocks and amphibolites is sharp. Igneous rocks in the study area are mainly granodiorite, quartz-monzodiorite and quartz-diorite. Plagioclase and hornblende form dominant minerals of the igneous rocks. Titanite and epidote occur in rare amounts. Chemical compositions of the clinopyroxene, plagioclase, hornblende and titanite in quartz-diorites were analysed using EPMA.
High Mg and Si contents accompanied by low Ti at the rim composition of the analysed amphiboles can be attributed to subsolidus cooling event. Magmatic crystallisation temperature for quartz-diorites is determined based on compositions of hornblende and coexisting plagioclase. Clinopyroxene composition was used to estimate crystallization pressure of the investigated rocks in the Takab area. Estimated temperature and pressure are consistent with 820±75oC and 8 kbar, respectively. Thermometry based on Ti content of the analysed hornblende gives temperature of 760oC. On the basis of chemical compositions of the analysed clinopyroxenes, sub-alkaline and I-type natures of the quartz-diorites in the study area can be concluded.
M. Moazzen; R. Hajialioghli
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Intrusion of the Kalaybar nepheline syenite and nepheline gabbro into the Cretaceous pelitic and calcareous rocks during Eocene-Oligocene has caused the development of a thermal aureole up to 1 km thick. The contact between igneous and country rocks is sharp. The ...
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Intrusion of the Kalaybar nepheline syenite and nepheline gabbro into the Cretaceous pelitic and calcareous rocks during Eocene-Oligocene has caused the development of a thermal aureole up to 1 km thick. The contact between igneous and country rocks is sharp. The protholite rocks in the study area had not been metamorphsed prior to contact metamorphism. Pelitic and calcareous rocks in the northern and eastern parts of the aureole and basic rocks in the southern part of the aureole were thermally metamorphsed and formed different types of hornfelses. High-grade metamorphic rocks with chemically suitable compositions were melted adjacent to the contact (within 100m from the contact) due to the heat from the pluton. Migmatites with small-scale leucosomes are produced. Scale of partial melting and volume of produced melt are very small. Main minerals in the light coloured parts of the migmatites (leucosomes) include quartz and K-feldspar with an igneous texture specially euhedral to subhedral texture of K-feldspar, graphic texture of quartz-K-feldspar and interstitial texture of quartz. Textural differences between light leucosomes and dark mesosomes, mineralogical composition of the leucosomes, existence of igneous textures within the leucosomes and restriction of the leucosome formation to the pelitic rocks all are distinct evidence for occurrence of partial melting in the Kalaybar aureole. The liable reactions for melting include fluid-present reactions and fluid-absent reactions. High-grade metamorphic assemblages such as orthopyroxene-bearing assemblages have been accomplished by dehydration of hydrous minerals such as biotite via fluid-absent melting reactions. Mineralogical compositions of leucosomes resemble leucogranites to granites. This indicates crystallisation of the leucosomes from a silicate melt.