Economic Geology
Amir Naderi; Ghasem Nabatian; Maryam Honarmand; Hossein Kouhestani
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Halab manganese deposit is located in the Sanandaj- sirjan zone, 100 km southwest of Zanjan. The rock units in the study area include Precambrian Kahar and Jangoutaran marble Formations. Manganese mineralization in the Halab area, occurred as veins and massive in the Jangoutaran marble and minor amount ...
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Halab manganese deposit is located in the Sanandaj- sirjan zone, 100 km southwest of Zanjan. The rock units in the study area include Precambrian Kahar and Jangoutaran marble Formations. Manganese mineralization in the Halab area, occurred as veins and massive in the Jangoutaran marble and minor amount in the schist unit. The main important minerals in the Halab manganese mineralization consist of pyrolusite, psilomelane, manganite and goethite, which calcite and quartz occurred as associated gangue minerals. The ore textures include cloform, vein-veinlets, massive, comb, dogtooth, botryoidal, replacement and relict. Actinolite, carbonate and silicic are the main important alterations in this area. Primitive mantle normalized of the rare earth elements (REE) patterns in the orebody and hydrothermal carbonate samples show that the samples relatively enrichmed in light REE. The analyzed samples show significant negative anomaly in Ce and weak negative anomalies in Eu. Furthermore, the primitive mantle normalized pattern of trace elements in the orebody and hydrothermal carbonate show significant enrichment in Ba, U, La, Pb, Sr and negative anomaly in Rb, Th, Nb, Ce, P, Zr and Ti. The field and microscopic studies as well geochemical evidences suggest that the mineralization formed by hydrothermal fluids. The circulation of meteoric and/or magmatic fluids within the Precambrian units provide the important elements such as Mn, Fe and Ca for mineralization. When the mineralizing fluid contact with reactable rocks, caused the formation of Mn mineralization in the Halab area.
M Mohajjel; S Houshmand, Ma
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A NW-SE trending ductile shear zone has been generated in the metamorphic rocks of the southwest Golpaygan. Different pellitic and psammitic schists, meta-carbonates and igneous rocks were strongly deformed in this ductile shear zone and produced mylonites and ultra-mylonites. Structural analysis indicates ...
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A NW-SE trending ductile shear zone has been generated in the metamorphic rocks of the southwest Golpaygan. Different pellitic and psammitic schists, meta-carbonates and igneous rocks were strongly deformed in this ductile shear zone and produced mylonites and ultra-mylonites. Structural analysis indicates three stages of foliations in the metamorphic rocks. Geometry and kinematics of the fabrics in Nowgan shear zone are divided into two northeastern and southwestern parts (limbs of Nowqan antiform). Mylonitic foliation moderately to steeply dip towards northeast in the northeastern part but dips to the southwest in the southwestern part. Mineral and stretching lineation, are shallowly to moderately plunging to the east-southeast in the northeastern part of the shear zone and, to the west-northwest in the southwestern part. The microstructural indicators of shear sense cleared that the northeastern part dextrally displaced along strike with normal component and the southwestern part sinisterly displaced with reverse component at the present situation. The fabrics evidence clear that this ductile shear zone were originally right-lateral strike–slip shear zone and during its structural evolution it was rotated around its strike during later folding stage. Structural analysis of the surrounded rocks of the shear zone indicates three superposed foliations. The mylonitic foliation in the shear zone and the axial plane foliations of the second stage folding are sub-parallel. Plunge directions of the second stage folds axes and the mineral/stretching lineation are also sub-parallel. Therefore, the initiation and development of the shear zone were synchronous with the second stage folding event.
H Safari; M.R Ghassemi; M Bahrami
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This opinion exist that basement of the Sanandaj-Sirjan Zone was cratonized during Cimmerian and Laramide Orogenic phases and so, therefore it is considered as an aseismic (or low-sesimicity) zone. The Shahreza area in the central part of the zone is selected as a case study area for investigation on ...
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This opinion exist that basement of the Sanandaj-Sirjan Zone was cratonized during Cimmerian and Laramide Orogenic phases and so, therefore it is considered as an aseismic (or low-sesimicity) zone. The Shahreza area in the central part of the zone is selected as a case study area for investigation on seismicity and recent movements and verifying of this hypothesis. We used Geoinformatic techniques (including: Remote Sensing, GIS and field surveying methods) in this research to detect the structures of the area and their kinematics, to locate earthquake foci, to find neotectonic evidences of active faults, and proofs for high seismicity of the area. Our results shows that the Shahreza fault (and Dehaghan fault located in southwest of study area) having a dextral strike-slip mechanism is the main structural trend in the area. This fault zone is truncated and offset by the Nosratabad fault (with strike N50-70E and sinistral strike-slip mechanism). In the intersection area of these main trends, many earthquake foci (with strike-slip focal mechanism) are located. Other than several earthquakes, neotectonic evidences for fault activity are are observed in the Shahreza area.
