Common Melting Reactions and Their Characteristics in the Alvand Aureole Metapelites, Hamadan

Saki, A.; Baharifar, A. A.

doi:10.22071/gsj.2011.54452

Document Type : Original Research Paper

Authors

A. Saki ¹
A. A. Baharifar ²

¹ Department of Geology, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran

² Departments of Geology, Abhar Payamnor University, Abhar, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22071/gsj.2011.54452

Abstract

Intrusion of the Alvand complex (intrusions formed during Jurassic) into the host metapelitic rocks (schists) created pelitic hornfelses and anatectic migmatites in the Alvand aureole. Partial melting in the Alvand aureole was restricted to pelitic bulk compositions. Existing of spinel-quartz minerals and appearance of orthopyroxene in these rocks marks the transition from amphibolite- to granulite-facies conditions, and is commonly attributed to the process of fluid-absent partial melting. Reactions Sil/And +‏ Bt = Crd +‏ Spl+‏ Kfs + melt and Bt+Als+Pl+Qtz = Grt+Kfs+melt, are the most reactions for the development of melt in the metapelitic rocks of Alvand aureole. This metamorphism is mainly controlled by conductive heat transter through magmatic intrusions into all levels of the crust. The Hamadan metamorphic rocks have experienced multiple episodes of metamorphism driven by burial and heating during arc construction and collision during subduction of a Neotethyan seaway and subsequent oblique collision of Afro-Arabia (Gondwana) with the Iranian microcontinent in the Jurassic-Cretaceous, and these events are associated with local partial melting at high grades, near the Alvand complex pluton.

Keywords

20.1001.1.10237429.1390.21.82.18.3

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Scientific Quarterly Journal of Geosciences

Common Melting Reactions and Their Characteristics in the Alvand Aureole Metapelites, Hamadan

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Volume 21, Issue 82
December 2011
Pages 165-172

Common Melting Reactions and Their Characteristics in the Alvand Aureole Metapelites, Hamadan

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Volume 21, Issue 82December 2011Pages 165-172

Volume 21, Issue 82
December 2011
Pages 165-172