Document Type : Original Research Paper

Authors

1 M. Sc. Student, School of Earth Sciences, Damghan University, Damghan, Iran

2 Assistant Professor, School of Earth Sciences, Damghan University, Damghan, Iran

3 Associate Professor, School of Earth Sciences, Damghan University, Damghan, Iran

Abstract

The Ghoshchi granitic rocks are located in at north of Uromiyeh city and are mainly composed of alkali-feldspar granites, granites and aplitic dykes. These samples belong to calc-alkaline to shoshonitic series and show Fe enrichment and are classified as A-type granites. Ghoshchi granites have high K2O+Na2O, FeO/MgO, Gl/Al, Ce/Nb, Zr, Y/Nb, and low CaO, Ba, Sr and Eu and are A2-type granites. Geochemical and Sr-Nd isotopes evidences suggest that these rocks were generated by highly fractional crystallization of a parental magma (melts), was derived  from an enriched mantle source, which have undergone contamination by crustal materials and formed in post-collisional extentional environments in a within-plate setting. The crystallization age of these rocks, according to biotite 40Ar-39Ar and Rb-Sr dating is 262±26 Ma  and 256±20 Ma, as minimum age, respectively, and 320-330 Ma as crystallization age. Ghoshchi granites formed probably within extentional zones in at the late stages of Variscan tectonic events.

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