Document Type : Original Research Paper
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1 M.Sc. student, Department of Geology, Faculty of Sciences, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran
2 Assistant Professor, Department of Geology, Faculty of Sciences, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran
Abstract
Qushchi gneisses in the north of Urmia city are a part of magmatic-metamorphic complex in NW of Sanandaj-Sirjan zone. Gneiss, with eldsparses and schist, form Precambrian basement of the area. These rocks contain lipidogranoblastic, augen, porphyroblastic and myrmekite textures, and composed of quartz+ alkaline eldspars (orthoclase and microcline perthites) + plagioclase+ biotite± pyroxene, muscovite± amphibole± epidote +zircon+ opaque. Field, petrography and geochemical evidences were used to know the genesis of igneous (ortho) or sedimentary (para) of these gneisses. All the evidences imply an igneous origin (ortho) for the studied gneisses. In fact, the protolith of these gneisses are porphyritic granite to monzonite rocks and has calcareous-alkaline and peraluminous nature. It can be inferred that the protolith of these rocks which formed in the late Neoproterozoic, belong to the calc-alkaline magmas in active continental margins or volcanic arcs (VAG). Further tectonic events have transformed them into gneisses.
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