Petrology
Ali Lotfi Bakhsh
Abstract
In the north of Ardabil (from Namin to Lahroud) there are widespread sequences of Eocene and Quaternary mafic to intermediate and felsic magmatic activities with different compositions. The composition of these rocks varies from basaltic lavas as well as dacitic and rhyolitic domes in Namin to basalt ...
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In the north of Ardabil (from Namin to Lahroud) there are widespread sequences of Eocene and Quaternary mafic to intermediate and felsic magmatic activities with different compositions. The composition of these rocks varies from basaltic lavas as well as dacitic and rhyolitic domes in Namin to basalt and basaltic andesite in Lahroud area. The chemical composition of olivine from olivine basaltic lavas indicates a forsterite composition changing from 67.8 to 92.7. Clinopyroxenes show diopside composition whereas plagioclase has labradorite to bytownite composition. Garnet xenocrysts in the rhyolitic domes have an almandine composition. These rocks are characterized by the enrichment in LREEs compared to the HREEs. Mafic-intermediate rocks show shoshonitic to high-K calc-alkaline composition whereas dacitic and rhyolitic domes show adakitic signature. Geochemical and isotopic characteristics of basaltic-andesitic rocks indicate their genesis are related to the partial melting of a metasomatized mantle wedge, re-fertilized by sediments and fluids from the subducting slab in the Eocene subduction zone of Iran. The geochemical and isotopic signatures of dacitic-rhyolitic domes indicate their origin from partial melting of the lower parts of the thickened continental crust of Iran.
M. Aghazadeh; M. H. Emami; H. Moin Vaziri; N. Rashidnezhad Omran; A. Castro
Abstract
Khankandi pluton is located in northwestren part of Iran, within Garadagh (Arasbaran) - south Armenia block. Main units of the pluton are monzonite and granodiorite associated with minor gabbro and lamprophyric and dacitic dykes. Granodioritic plutonism is followed by gabbro and monzonite. Lamprophyric ...
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Khankandi pluton is located in northwestren part of Iran, within Garadagh (Arasbaran) - south Armenia block. Main units of the pluton are monzonite and granodiorite associated with minor gabbro and lamprophyric and dacitic dykes. Granodioritic plutonism is followed by gabbro and monzonite. Lamprophyric and dacitic dykes are emplaced at the end of the granodioritic plutonism. Gabbro and monzonites are shoshonitic, and granodiorites and dacites have high K-calc alkaline nature and charactistics of C-type (potassic or continental) adakites and high Ba-Sr granitoides. Lamprophyres are alkaline and have camptonitic composition. The monzonites follow fractionation trend of gabbro with minor crustal assimilation and contamination. Melting of garnet bearing mafic lower crust, metasomatised lithospheric mantle and upwelling asthenosphere produced granodioritic and dacitic, shoshonitic gabbro and lamprophyric magma respectively. The production of various magma types in the Oligocene of the Arasbaran occurred in response to slab break off and/or delamination of lithospheric mantle and upwelling of asthenosphere. Plutonism occurred after collision between Iranian and Arabian plates and crustal thickening in the extensional post collisional tectonic setting.
