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1 M.Sc., Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, University of Zanjan, Zanjan, Iran
2 Associate Professor, Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, University of Zanjan, Zanjan, Iran
3 Assistant Professor, Department of Geology, Faculty of Earth Science, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
4 Ph.d. Student, Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese, Beijing, China
Abstract
Kamyaran ophiolitic complex located in the northeast Zagros orogeny along the crush zone between Arabian-Iranian plates. This complex outcropped between the Harsin ophiolites in southeast and Sarwabad ophiolite in northwest. Field observation reveal the fact that the Garmab Ophiolite in the northeast of Kamyaran is a tectonic mélange including peridotites and gabbros cut by microgabbroic dikes. Olivine, clinopyroxene and orthopyroxene with chromian spinel made the peridotites minerals with mesh and porphyroclastic fabrics and Gabbros include plagioclase, clinopyroxene and minor amphibole with intergranular, pegmatoidic and interstitial texture. According to the geochemical results, gabbros have tholeiitic to calk-alkaline nature and show the MORB to island arc characteristics. According to the geochemical and geotectonic results, Garmab peridotites plotted to the abyssal peridotites area that represent from the residual mantle spinel lherzolite after extraction of 15–20% partial melting. The break-off of Neo-Tethyan slab and subduction of this slab branch beneath the oceanic lithosphere during cretaceous led to cessation of the Neo-Tethyan subduction beneath the Sanandaj-Sirjan block, and forming arc-back arc basin (second step of subduction) and related rocks in the Kamyaran ophiolite. Presence of tholeiitic to calc-alkaline magmatism is in response to the slab retreat in the Eurasian continental margin.
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