Document Type : Original Research Paper

Authors

1 Assistant Professor, Research Institute for Earth Science, Geological Survey of Iran, Tehran, Iran.

2 M.Sc., Geological Survey of Iran, Tehran, Iran

3 Associate Professor, Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, Islamic Azad University- Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

Oshnavieh Plutonic Complex (OPC), hosted within the northernmost part of the Sanandaj- Sirjan zone, allows distinguishing three suites including diorite, granite and alkalisyenite-alkaligranite (AS-AG). Dioritic rocks formed from partial melting of enriched lithospheric mantle sources on base of minerlogical and geochemistry. The granite suite is S type that formed from partial melting of metapelitic-greywacke source. The peraluminous A-type granite of AS-AG suite are generated by partial melting of quartzo-feldspatic source at high temperatures. According to the negative Nb, Ta and Ti anomaly in spider diagrams, and tectonic discrimination diagram of Rb-(Y+Nb), the diorite suite formed in active continental margin (VAG) environment. According to the diorite’s formed environment and simultaneously formed granite in 100 M.a., OPC seems to have formed by northeastward subduction of Neo-tethyan oceanic crust under the Iranian continental crust. Following intrusion and setting of mafic magma into the crust, partial melting of pelitic-greywacke, resulted from heating by intrusion of the mafic magma, produced the granitic magma. After 20 Ma the AS-AG suite formed from melting of quartzo-feldspatic rocks of lower crust, probably by heating of mafic magma and/or in relaxation period of subduction and emplaced in the continental volcanic arc.

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