Document Type : Original Research Paper

Authors

1 Ph.D. Student, Department of Geology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Hormozgan, Bandar Abbas, Iran

2 Assitant Professor, Department of Geology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Hormozgan, Bandar Abbas, Iran

3 Professor, School of Geology, College of Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

4 Assitant Professor. Geological Survey of Iran, Tehran, Iran

5 Assitant Professor, Geological Survey of Iran, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

The Roshtkhar intrusive rocks are located in the northeastern part of the Roshtkhar prospecting area (KhorassanRazavi province), along the eastern edge of the Khaf-Kashmar-Bardaskan volcano-plutonic belt, north of the Dorouneh Fault and on the southern part of the Sabzevar structural zone. The intusive rocks consist mainly ofsyenite to monzonite with minor amount of syenite porphyry, monzonite porphyry, and diorite porphyry with granular and porphyry texture, respectively. According to the geochemical data, the Roshtkhar intrusive rocks are calc-alkaline granitoid series with high-K to shoshonitic affinity, magnesian, metaluminous, and belong to I-type granites.Chondrite-normalized Rare Earth Element and mantle-normalized trace-element spider diagrams display enriched in LILE and LREE and also Th, depleted in HFSE and weak depletion in HREE and Y, along with negative anomalies of Nb,Ta, and Ti, that are characteristic of the post-collisional calc-alkaline rocks along with a continental active margin tectonic setting. In spite of the low ratios of Nb/U, Nb/La and Ce/Pb, the Sm/Yb (2.8-3.9) ratios reveals low contamination of magmas with upper continental crust. According to geochemistry of trace elements and REE, the main cause of magmatism in Roshtkhar area was melting of a metasomatized lithospheric mantle (E-MORB) with spinel lherzolite composition accompanied by in the presence of phlogopite. Multiple element and REE pattern, abundance of K2O/Na2O in Roshtkhar intrusive rocks show contamination and mixing with acidic magma ofamphibolitic lower crust due to temperature of mantle magma and AFC process played important roles in magma evolution. La vs. La/sm diagram illustrate partial melting and also according to K, positive anomalies of Rb, Ba, K, Th, U, and Pb, and the negative anomalies of Nb, Ti, Ta, and Ba associated with high La (La > 29), it seems partial melting of lower continental crust has played an important role in the genesis of the Roshtkhargranitoids rocks. Based on field investigation, petrographic studies, and lithogeochemistry using the granitoids discrimination tectonic setting diagrams, it seems that the Roshtkhar intrusive rocks were generated in a post-collisional extensional environment in a continental margin arc setting with partial melting of the mantle-lower crust within the Khaf-Kashmar-Bardaskan belt.

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