Sedimentology
Mahdi Ghaderi; Mohsen Moayyed; Nasir Amel; Monire Mojarrad
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The Saray volcano is located on the East of the Urmia Lake. This extinct stratovolcano mainly consists of Leucitite lavas and related pyroclasts. Dykes with composition of Leucite phonolite, Lamprophyre, Trachyte and microsyenite intruded into leucitite. Field evidences indicate that minette and trachytic ...
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The Saray volcano is located on the East of the Urmia Lake. This extinct stratovolcano mainly consists of Leucitite lavas and related pyroclasts. Dykes with composition of Leucite phonolite, Lamprophyre, Trachyte and microsyenite intruded into leucitite. Field evidences indicate that minette and trachytic dykes intruded into each other. A microsyenitic stock and dykes outcrops in the central valley of this volcano. The trachytic pyroclasts eruption is the last activity of the Saray volcano and probably caused the destruction of volcanoe’s caldera and formed its current shape. Leucitites maimly consist of leucite and clinopyroxene phonocrysts, minettes consist of biotite and clinopyroxene phenocrysts and trachytes consist of biotite, sanidine and clinopyroxene phenocrysts. The Saray magmatism has potassic to ultrapotassic nature and its geochemical features indicate that this magma should be originated from a micaceous garnet clinopyroxenite mantle. The coexistance of leucitite, lamprophyre and trachyte, could not be explained only by the function of fractional crystallization in leucitite magma. Sanidine is the most abundant feldspar in the Saray volcano. Sanidine megacrysts crystalize in a medium size magma chamber with continuing temperature cycling, so that the magma temperature remains close to the liquidus temperature of the K-feldspar for a long time.
A. Bahrampour; Gh. Ghadami; H. Atapour; M. Poosti; H. Ahmadipour
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At 60km north-east of Kerman city,near Sarashk village (Ravar, Kerman province) and along the Kuhbanan fault, several lamprophyric dikes have been intruded into Carboniferous to Cretaceous sedimentary formations. Petrographically these lamprophyres could be classified into two groups: comptonites ...
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At 60km north-east of Kerman city,near Sarashk village (Ravar, Kerman province) and along the Kuhbanan fault, several lamprophyric dikes have been intruded into Carboniferous to Cretaceous sedimentary formations. Petrographically these lamprophyres could be classified into two groups: comptonites and sanaite. Olivine, clinopyroxene, plagioclase and potassium feldspar are the main minerals in all two groups. Mineral chemistry shows that olivines, clinopyroxenes and amphiboles are of chrysolite (Fo = 72.35-79.85)), augite (Wo = 44.3-50.2, En= 37.06-44.4, Fs = 9.24-14.6), and kaersutite (Ca+Na = 2), (Na+K = 0.59-0.95), (Mg/(Mg+Fe2) = 0.63-0.76) composition, respecrively. Geobarometric and geothermometric estimations along with the tectonomagmatic diagrams for clinopyroxenes show that the parental magmas werealkaline in which the clinopyroxenes crystallized at pressure of 11-15 Kbar and temperature of 1150-1300 ◦C.Whole rock chemical analyses of these rocks show that the parental alkaline magma was originated from a metasomatized lithospheric garnet- spinel- lherzolite mantle source and emplaced in a post-collisional environment.
M Aghazadeh; Z Badrzadeh
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In the northwestern Iran mica-and amphibole-rich lamprophyres crop out mainly as dyke and they cut Pre-Pliocene strata. They exposed in the Arasbaran, EslamyPeninsula, and Mishu range. According to the mineralogy and mineral chemistry, amphibole-rich lamprophyres have kaersutite type amphiboles and diopside ...
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In the northwestern Iran mica-and amphibole-rich lamprophyres crop out mainly as dyke and they cut Pre-Pliocene strata. They exposed in the Arasbaran, EslamyPeninsula, and Mishu range. According to the mineralogy and mineral chemistry, amphibole-rich lamprophyres have kaersutite type amphiboles and diopside phenocrysts in the matrix of same mafic minerals, feldspars, and altered glass. These lamprophyres in some thin sections have olivine and phlogopite. Mica-rich lamprophyres include phlogopite and diopside phenocrysts in the matrix of same mafic minerals, abundant glass and secondary minerals. According to the mineralogy, mineral chemistry, and geochemistry, amphibole-rich lamprophyres are alkaline and show camptonite-sannaite composition but mica-rich lamrophyres are calc-alkaline and represent minette composition. Alkaline lamprophyres represent characteristics of OIB type magma while calc-alkaline lamprophyres show characteristics of magmas originated in the subduction dominant tectonic setting. Sorkheh amphibole-bearing lamprophyres show both alkaline and calc-alkaline type lamprophyres. Regarding to geochemical features both calc-alkaline and alkaline lamprophyres originated from heterogeneous mantle with different proportions of spinel, garnet and hydrous minerals (e.g. phlogopite and amphibole). Calc-alkaline lamprophyres originated from a mantle enriched in phlogopite and alkaline lamprophyres originated from lithospheric mantle that metasomatised by deep mantle and enriched in amphibole. Both mentioned mantles associated in the petrogenesis of the Sorkheh amphibole- bearing lamprophyres. The lamprophyres were emplaced in the post collisional tectonic setting.
M. Aghazadeh; M. H. Emami; H. Moin Vaziri; N. Rashidnezhad Omran; A. Castro
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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 ...
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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.
