Document Type : Original Research Paper

Authors

1 Assistant Professor, Department of Geology, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran

2 Associate Professor, Research Institute for Earth Sciences, Geological Survey of Iran, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

The easts Sanadaj- Galali plutons of the northern Sanandaj-Sirjan Zone, Zagros Orogeny, are composite, polyphase bodies that generated during subduction of Neotethys beneath the Eurasian plate. A-type magmatism in this area presents by Alkaline, high K, ferroan leucogranites. Despite having mineralogical and isotopic similarities, these leucogranites show a clear division, based on the geochemical and SHRIMP zircon crystal dating results. Qalaylan leucogranite with the crystallization age of 159 ± 3Ma is A1-type. Other leucogranites are A2-type and crystalized about 20 million years later (140-149 Ma). In fact, mantle derived mafic magma, as heat source, caused partial melting of heterogeneous pre-fertilized Sanadaj-Sirjan basement and creates Qalaylan leucogranites. Younger leucogranites are A2-type and present different evolution path. These rocks generate in a post collisional setting as a result of partial melting of heterogeneous pre-fertilized Sanadaj-Sirjan basement, about 20 Ma later. In post collisional setting, asthenosphere upwelling do to the slab roll back or slab steepening could be a heat source of crust melting and generates the younger leucogranites.

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