A Kamali; M Moayyed; N Amel; M.R Hosainzadeh
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Sungun Cu-Mo porphyry deposit is located in East Azarbaijan province and at northwest of Iran. From the petrology viewpoint, the Sungun copper mine is consisted of porphyry Sungun (SP), and eight categories of delayed dykes made of quartz-diorite (DK1 (a, b, c)), gabbro-diorite (DK2), diorite (DK3), ...
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Sungun Cu-Mo porphyry deposit is located in East Azarbaijan province and at northwest of Iran. From the petrology viewpoint, the Sungun copper mine is consisted of porphyry Sungun (SP), and eight categories of delayed dykes made of quartz-diorite (DK1 (a, b, c)), gabbro-diorite (DK2), diorite (DK3), dacite (DK4), lamprophyre (LAM) and micro-diorite (MDI). The main minerals of lamprophyric dyke are biotite, plagioclase, K-feldspar, and amphibole with porphyritic and microlithic porphyre textures. Lamprophyric dykes in the studied area have alkali-basalt composition and based on whole rock geochemistry is originated from a shoshonitic magma. Minerals chemistry analysis revealed that the composition of plagioclase varies from oligoclase to albite, amphibole is Magnesiohornblende and biotite composition varies from siderophyllite to eastonite. Lamprophyric dykes have been originated from a magma with high oxygen fugacity. Based on biotite thermometry, the temperature of biotite crystallization in lamprophyric dyke was 650 to 750°C. According to the mineralogical and geochemical evidence, studied lamprophyre samples are of kersantite type and belong to calk-alkaline lamprophyres. Multi-element diagrams normalized to chondrite and primitive mantle indicates LREE and LILE enrichment and HREE and HFSE depletion in the lamprophyre dykes Sungun. Based on trace elements ratio diagram of La/Sm vs. La parental magmas can have been generated from low degree partial melting of subcontinental mantle source with garnet-lherzolite composition. The dykes formed in Post-collisional geotectonic environment of the studied samples and trace element geochemical evidence indicate that produced magma formed from a metasomatic mantle due to an ancient subduction.
M Aghazadeh; Z Badrzadeh; A Castro
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The studied Roudbar and Abhar plutons are located in the western Alborz zone and Taroum subzone. These intrusive bodies show metaluminous and shoshonitic nature and they cut the Eocene volcanic and sedimentary rocks. In the studied plutons, monzonite and quartz monzonite terms are dominant. According ...
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The studied Roudbar and Abhar plutons are located in the western Alborz zone and Taroum subzone. These intrusive bodies show metaluminous and shoshonitic nature and they cut the Eocene volcanic and sedimentary rocks. In the studied plutons, monzonite and quartz monzonite terms are dominant. According to geochemistry, these plutons were crystallized from non-primary magma, and have been experienced fractional crystallization. In the primary mantle normalized spider diagrams and chondrite normalized REE diagrams, studied samples show clear enrichment in the LREE and LILE and depletion in the HFSE. The primary magma originated from 1-5% partial melting of phlogopite bearing lithospheric mantle with spinel lherzolite composition that metasomatized by subduction agents. According to U-Pb SHRIMP dating, these plutons were intruded during 37.8 to 38.9 Ma in the late Eocene and in a post-collision tectonic setting.
M Honarmand; N Rashidnejad Omran; M.H Emami; Gh Nabatian
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The Marfion Granitoid Complex is a part of Cenozoic plutonism, which located in the central part of the Urumieh–Dokhtar Magmatic Belt. This complex consists of four main intrusives, including the Mozvash micro-dioritic to micro-monzodioritic intrusive, which scattered as separate outcrops ...
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The Marfion Granitoid Complex is a part of Cenozoic plutonism, which located in the central part of the Urumieh–Dokhtar Magmatic Belt. This complex consists of four main intrusives, including the Mozvash micro-dioritic to micro-monzodioritic intrusive, which scattered as separate outcrops through the western part of the area, the Marfioun spherical tonalitic intrusive which is the most widespread pluton throughout the area, the Poudalg N-S elongated tonalitic intrusive, and the Ghalhar quartz-dioritic intrusive. The mafic microgranular enclaves with geochemical properties similar to their host granitoid are abundant in the Marfion and also in some parts of Poudalg and Ghalhar intrusives. According to geochemical data, the Marfion granitoid complex is metalominous, I-type and show the low to medium potassium calc-alkaline affinity. Using U-Pb zircon dating method, the obtained magma crystallization ages are about 50 Ma for the Mozvash intrusive and 18 Ma for the Marfion, Poudalg and Ghalhar intrusives. The geochemical evidences suggest that the Eocene Mozvash microdioritic magma is the result of the lower crust’s partial melting and and its mixture with the mantle’s melts in an active continental margin. The Miocene intrusives were derived from partial melting of a common lower crustal mafic source caused by the mantle melts in a post- collisional setting. The Mozvash micro-diorite intrusive shows less fractionated REE pattern than the Miocene intrusives. The geochemical evidences suggest a same petrogenetic model for tonalite and quartz-diorite magmas. The Marfion, Ghalhar and poudalg intrusives and their enclaves show relatively high Al2O3 and Na2O/K2O ratio and LREEs, which suggest partial melting of metabasaltic rocks. The geochemical investigations indicate that the quartz-diorites and tonalites are derived from the process of amphibole dehydration melting reacted in the lower crust.
J Ghalamghash; R Chaharlang
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The Late Miocene- Quaternary volcanoes including Sahand, Ararat, Nemrut, Suphan, Tendurek and Lesser Caucasus volcanoes in the Arabia-Eurasia collision zone, are studied in this paper. The volcanoes have been erupted pyroclastic materials and lava flows with basaltic to rhyolitic composition, in several ...
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The Late Miocene- Quaternary volcanoes including Sahand, Ararat, Nemrut, Suphan, Tendurek and Lesser Caucasus volcanoes in the Arabia-Eurasia collision zone, are studied in this paper. The volcanoes have been erupted pyroclastic materials and lava flows with basaltic to rhyolitic composition, in several times. These volcanic rocks have calk-Alkaline (Sahand) to Alkaline nature (Tendurek). The Nb, Ta, Ti and Y depletions in accompanied with Rb, Ba, K, Sr and Th enrichments are the common geochemical features of these volcanic rocks in primitive mantle normalized multi element diagrams. In addition, enrichment of LREE relative to HREE in chondrite–normalized REE patterns is visible in all volcanic rocks of the regions. The enrichment of LREE and depletion of HREE in Sahand and Lesser Caucasus volcanic rocks is implying that their magma is derived from fraction melting of garnet-lherzolite of mantle source. In contrast, the volcanoes of eastern Anatolia melted from spinel-lherzolite rocks of mantle. The negative Nb, Ta anomalies in primitive mantle normalized multi element diagrams of volcanic rocks indicate geochemical features of Pre-collision subduction component in parental magma of studied volcanoes. High contents of La, Th, Ce and Rb indicate magma contamination during parental magma emplacement in crust accompanied with assimilation, fractional crystallization process.
Gh. Tajbakhsh; M. H. Emami; H. Moine Vaziri; N. Rashidnejad Omran
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Nepheline syenite intrusive of Kaleybar is located in South and West of the Kaleybar city in eastern Azarbayjan province. This zoned intrusive complex is formed by penetration of two separated silica undersaturated and saturatated magmatic phases with Oligocene-Miocene ages. Undersaturated rocks are ...
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Nepheline syenite intrusive of Kaleybar is located in South and West of the Kaleybar city in eastern Azarbayjan province. This zoned intrusive complex is formed by penetration of two separated silica undersaturated and saturatated magmatic phases with Oligocene-Miocene ages. Undersaturated rocks are composed of alkali pyroxenite, mela alkali-gabbro to nepheline gabbro-diorte, nepheline syenite and nepheline sodalite syenite dikes. Silica saturated rocks is consist of a quartz monzonitic stock, which has penetrated in the center of nepheline syenite intrusive and related quartz syenite - micro syenite dikes. Undersaturated phase has potassic alkaline affinity and nepheline syenites are miaskitic Malignite. In contrast, silica saturated rocks belong to high-K calc-alkaline to shoshonitic magma. Field observation, petrographical and geochemical studies, indicates that undersaturated rocks are comagmatic and crystal fractionation, accumulation and low density minerals floatation processes play significant role in their magmatic evolution. High enrichment of rare elements especially LREE and LILE compare to variable depletion of HREE and HFSE are infer a basanitic parental magma generated from a previously subduction-metasomatised lithospheric mantle source. Silica saturated magma of Kaleybar was probably resulted form the lower crust Partial melting and geochemical similarities resulted from partial melting of lower crust and its geochemical similarities with undersaturated parts is due to magma mixing and contamination. Repeatedly injection of alkaline and calc-alkaline magmas could be occurred in a post collision setting after Eocene in Azerbaijan region.
