Document Type : Original Research Paper
Authors
1 1 Assistant Professor, Department of Geology, Khoy Branch, Islamic Azad University, Khoy, Iran
2 Assistant Professor, Department of Geology, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
3 Associate Professor, Department of Geology, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
4 Professor, Department of Geology, North Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
The Khoy shear zone (KSZ) is exposed 130 Km north of Uremia and 650 km west of Tehran. Structural analysis in the Khoy Shear Zone (KSZ) indicated that they consist of NW-SE oriented various metamorphic rocks. They contain NW-SE trending moderate to steeply dipping mylonitic foliation to the NE. Stretching lineation plunge shallowly to moderately towards NE. Thrust faults are oriented the same as mylonitic foliation. Ductile fabrics are superimposed by brittle structures. Orientation of the structures indicates that the main stress trend is NE-SW. Four deformation stages (D1-D4) identified in KSZ. The first two stages are ductile that superimposed by the two other ductile-brittle stages. Shear sense indicators such as S/C fabrics, shear bands, shear folds, book-shelf structures, fishes and mantled porphyroclasts indicate that the KSZ deformed via dextral transpression tectonic regime. The Khoy area contains both NW-SE striking dextral strike-slip and SW verging NE dipping ductile reverse shear fabrics. Ductile shear fabrics are overprinted by subsequent younger both thrust and strike-slip fault systems. Abundant syn-tectonic granitoids were intruded in the Khoy area during convergent. The shear deformation fabrics are well identified in both deformed intrusive and metamorphic-ophiolite complex. The geometry and kinematics of shear fabrics indicate a deformation partitioning in both ductile and brittle conditions during a progressive transpression tectonic regime. The KSZ deformed during an oblique convergence scenario between the Arabian and West Alborz- Azerbayjan blocks in NW Iran.
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