Volume 34 (2024)
Volume 33 (2023)
Volume 32 (2022)
Volume 31 (2021)
Volume 30 (2020)
Volume 29 (2020)
Volume 28 (2019)
Volume 27 (2018)
Volume 26 (2017)
Volume 25 (2016)
Volume 24 (2015)
Volume 23 (2014)
Volume 22 (2013)
Volume 21 (2012)
Volume 20 (2011)
Volume 19 (2010)
Volume 18 (2009)
Volume 17 (2008)
Volume 16 (2007)
Economic Geology
The Hired gold deposit, Lut Block, East Iran: example of a gold deposit related to reduced I-type intrusive bodies

Maryam Emami Jafari; Saeed Alirezaei; Iraj Rasa; Jochen Kolb

Volume 33, Issue 3 , August 2023, , Pages 219-242

https://doi.org/10.22071/gsj.2023.378434.2054

Abstract
  The Hired gold deposit in the Lut block, East Iran, is closely associated with an intermediate-mafic intrusive complex consisting of granodiorite to diorite, hornblende quartz-monzonite, and gabbro-diorite intruded into Eocene volcanic rocks. The intrusions are distinguished by high contents of CaO, ...  Read More

Tectonics
Faghan fault system, constrain on the late Cenozoic kinematics of the Northern Lut Block, Central Iran

Mohammad Reza Mazinani; Ali Yassaghi; Reza Nozaem

Volume 32, Issue 3 , September 2022, , Pages 103-118

https://doi.org/10.22071/gsj.2021.287830.1910

Abstract
  The E-W trending Faghan fault system with >180 km in length located in the northern part of the Lut Block and south of the Dorouneh Fault in central Iran. The fault cut through basement rocks and all other younger units from Cambrian to Cenozoic. Kinematic and dynamic analyses of the Faghan fault ...  Read More

Petrology
Petrology of the Neogene volcanic rocks in south Arab abad, Lut Block

Morteza Khalatbari Jafari; Narmin Banehee; Mohamad Faridi; Mehdi Moradi

Volume 30, Issue 117 , December 2020, , Pages 123-134

https://doi.org/10.22071/gsj.2019.178970.1635

Abstract
  The Neogene volcanic rocks are exposed in south Arab abad, Lut block. The studied volcanic rocks covered Eocene and Oligocene volcanic lavas and Neogene evaporitic deposits. The base of the Neogene volcanic sequence made of breccia and tuff gradually covered by andesite, trachyandesite and dacitic lavas. ...  Read More

Stratigraphy and Palaeontology
Biostratigraphy of the Baghamshah Formation based on calcareous nannofossils in Baghdadeh section (East margin of Lut Block)

nahid khodashenas; Fatemeh Hadavi; Marziyeh Notghi Moghaddam; Ahmadreza Khazaei

Volume 29, Issue 116 , August 2020, , Pages 173-182

https://doi.org/10.22071/gsj.2019.168519.1604

Abstract
  In the present study, Baghamshah Formation in Baghdadeh section located in the eastern margin of Lut Block to biostratigraphic studies based on calcareous nannofossils was sampled. Thickness of Baghamshah Formation in this section is 253m and mainly contains of shale and marl. According to the paleontological ...  Read More

Economic Geology
Rashidi copper vein deposit, North Khur, Eastern Iran: hydrothermal alteration, mineralization, geochemistry, fluid inclusion and stable isotope investigations

Maryam Javidi Moghaddam; M.H Karimpour; Azadeh Malekzadeh Shafaroudi

Volume 29, Issue 116 , August 2020, , Pages 265-276

https://doi.org/10.22071/gsj.2019.128676.1460

Abstract
  The Rashidi area, which comprises a part of the north Khur in eastern Iran is located at 120 km northwest of Birjand city. Preliminary prospecting in the area using the image processing of ASTER data by Spectral Angle Mapper (SAM) algorithm resulted in the identification of propylitic and argillic alteration ...  Read More

Petrology
Geochemistry and petrogenesis of Koudakan granitoid body (east of Lut block-Central Iran)

Siavash Omidianfar; mohammad rahgoshay; Iman Monsef

Volume 29, Issue 113 , November 2019, , Pages 89-100

https://doi.org/10.22071/gsj.2018.84181.1100

Abstract
  Koudakan Granitoid located in 100 km South of Birjand and 18 km North of Ghaleh-Zari mine in eastern Iran. It belong to the Lut Block volcanic–plutonic belt. These intrusive rocks (Eocene-Oligocene) petrogaphicaly composed of Diorite, Monzodiorite, Quartzmonzodiorite, Tonalite, Porphyritic Tonalite, ...  Read More

Economic Geology
Procedure of Supergene processes with an interpretation from leached capping and oxide enrichment zone in Mahour polymetal deposit, west of Dehsalm

Simindokht Younesi; Mohammadreza Hosseinzadeh; Mohsen Moayyed

Volume 29, Issue 113 , November 2019, , Pages 291-300

https://doi.org/10.22071/gsj.2018.138243.1503

Abstract
  Mineralogy of oxide zone as clue about past climate reveals occurrence of supergene enrichment processes in Mahour Zn-Cu-(Pb-Bi-Ag) mineralization, in central Lut, during two stages: In first stage that supergene processes have occurred from meteoric waters in an arid climate during Oligocene to Upper ...  Read More

The structural analysis of Boshruyeh Kooh-e-Ahan area, South Khorasan

M. Jamali; M. R. Ghassemi; M. Lotfi; A. Solgi

Volume 28, Issue 111 , May 2019, , Pages 301-310

https://doi.org/10.22071/gsj.2019.88510

Abstract
  Kuh-e-Ahan is a high-standing single relief within a rather flat plain, which is located in the north of the Tabas block, near the intersection of the Nayband and Kalmard faults and there are  great outcrops of  fe-oxide, along with eastern-western faults and fractures in Kooh-e-Ahan area.. ...  Read More

Petrology
Geochemistry, tectonic environment and origin of Oligo-Miocene lavas in Zoolesk area, northeast of Sarbisheh (Southern Khorasan)

Maryam Kouchi; Malihe Nakhaei

Volume 28, Issue 110 , December 2018, , Pages 255-266

https://doi.org/10.22071/gsj.2018.94302.1214

Abstract
  In northeast of Sarbisheh city, southern Khorasan, outcrops of lava rocks are exist that from view of geological subdivisions, located in eastern part of Lut block. Lithologic composition of studied collections consist of andesite (pyroxene andesite, andesite, trachy andesite), dacite and rhyolite. The ...  Read More

Petrology
Geology, Geochemistry and Tectonomagmatic of Some Volcanic Cones in Southeastern Iran

Habib Biabangard; Farzad Molazadebravate

Volume 28, Issue 109 , September 2018, , Pages 161-174

https://doi.org/10.22071/gsj.2017.86320.1108

Abstract
  Kuh-Som, KuhzaBozorg and KuhzaKochak volcanic cones are located in the southeastern of Bam and northwest of Bazman cites. From the perspective geology these cones are belong to the Iranian central zone and south-eastern edge of Lut block. These cones are composed of extrusive igneous rocks such as basalt, ...  Read More

Petrography, geochemistry and tectonic setting of Tertiary volcanic rocks in the Boshgaz area )northwest of Sarbisheh, Southern Khorasan(

A. Baharvandi; S. S. Mohammadi; M. Nakhaei

Volume 27, Issue 106 , March 2018, , Pages 117-128

https://doi.org/10.22071/gsj.2018.58324

Abstract
  In the Boshgaz area in 50 kilometers northwest of Sarbisheh and eastern margin of Lut block, Tertiary volcanic rocks with basaltic andesite, andesite and dacite composition are cropped out. The main texture of these rocks are porphyry with microlithic-glass groundmass, glomeroporphyritic and vesicular. ...  Read More

Mineralogy of Mahour Zn-Cu-(Pb-Bi-Ag) deposit, west of Dehsalm: implications for genesis and mineralization type

S. Younesi; M. R. Hosseinzadeh; M. Moayyed

Volume 27, Issue 105 , December 2017, , Pages 295-308

https://doi.org/10.22071/gsj.2017.53975

Abstract
  The Mahour Zn-Cu-(Pb-Bi-Ag) deposit located in central Lut Block, formed in an intensely crushed fault zone, dominantly in dacite-rhyodacite volcanic-subvolcanic unit of Late Eocene- Oligocene age. Mineralization occurred as veins, veinlets and breccia massive sulfide and/or  as quartz , quartz-carbonate ...  Read More

SW Sorkh-Kuh copper vein, Lut block, Eastern Iran: mineralization, fluid inclusions and oxygen stable isotopes studies

A Hosseinkhani; M.H Karimpour; A Malekzadeh Shafaroudi

Volume 26, Issue 102 , March 2017, , Pages 165-176

https://doi.org/10.22071/gsj.2017.44144

Abstract
  The SW Sorkh-Kuh area makes part of the Tertiary volcanic-plutonic rocks in the west of the Lut Block, SW of Birjand city. Geology of this area consists of andesitic and basaltic volcanic rocks intruded by hornblende diorite, hornblende microdiorite, hornblende diorite porphyry, hornblende quartz diorite ...  Read More

Progressive metamorphism in metapelites of the Deh-Salm metamorphic complex, east of the Lut block according to garnet-biotite thermometry

E Bahramnejad; S Bagheri; A Ahmadi; A Zahedi

Volume 26, Issue 102 , March 2017, , Pages 325-338

https://doi.org/10.22071/gsj.2017.44052

Abstract
  The Deh-Salm metamorphic complex, including the various types of metamorphic rocks and a north-south trending sequence of the index-mineral zones, crops out associated with the felsic plutonic rocks in the eastern margin of the Central Iranian micro-continent, between the Sistan suture zone and the Lut ...  Read More

Petrography and geochemistry of the metabasites and metaperidotites of the Deh-Salm and Galugah metamorphic complexes, East of the Lut Block

A Biabangard; H Biabangard; S Bagheri

Volume 25, Issue 98 , March 2016, , Pages 363-374

https://doi.org/10.22071/gsj.2016.41254

Abstract
  The Deh-Salm metamorphic complex (DMC), late Jurassic in age, is exposed at the west of Nehbandan and at the the eastern margin of the Lut block. This is one of the exceptional outcrops of the Lut block’s basement in East Iran.  The metamorphosed ultramafic rocks in this complex are identified ...  Read More

Geochemistry and K-Metasomatism in Mineralized Host Rocks of Neian Epithermal Deposit, Northwest of Lut Block, East of Iran

H Hadizadeh1; A.A Calagari; N Nezafati; H Mollaei; H Azmi

Volume 24, Issue 95 , June 2015, , Pages 181-194

https://doi.org/10.22071/gsj.2015.42430

Abstract
  The Neian epithermal deposit in northwest of the Lut block is located in ~35 km southwest of Bejestan. The studies done on this deposit indicate the development of zonation in altered rocks around the ore-bearing siliceous veins and the existence of silicic (quartz, chalcedony, adularia, calcite, illite, ...  Read More

Geology, Petrography, Alteration, and Mineralization in Neian Polymetallic (Pb-Zn-Cu-Au-Ag) Deposit, Bejestan, Northwest of Lut Block, East of Iran

H Hadizadeh; A.A Calagari; N Nezafati; H Mollaei

Volume 24, Issue 94 , March 2015, , Pages 315-329

https://doi.org/10.22071/gsj.2015.42950

Abstract
  The Neian area in northwest of the Lut block host a polymetallic (Pb-Zn-Cu-Au-Ag) vein system which was developed within a series of volcanic rocks ranging in composition from dacite through rhyo-dacite and andesite to trachy-andesite. These rocks were formed by two distinct stages of lava eruption. ...  Read More

Petrogenesis, Tectonomagmatic Setting and Mineralization Potential of Dehsalm Granitoids, Lut Block, Eastern Iran

R Arjmandzadeh; M.H Karimpour; S.A Mazaheri; J F.Santos; M Medina

Volume 23, Issue 89 , December 2013, , Pages 49-58

https://doi.org/10.22071/gsj.2013.44017

Abstract
  The dehsalm porphyritic granitoids belong to the Lut Block volcanic-plutonic belt in East - Central Iran. The intrusive rocks range in composition from gabbro - diorite to granite and can be classified as high-K calc alkaline to shoshonitic volcanic arc granites. Elevated contents of Mo, Cu, Au, Pb, ...  Read More