Document Type : Original Research Paper

Authors

1 Department of geology, buali sina university

2 Geology Department, Faculty Science, Bu- Ali Sina University, Hamedan

3 Geology Department, Faculty Science, Payame Noor University, Tehran

4 Geology Department, Faculty Science, University of Birjand, Birjand

Abstract

Granitoid bodies of west of Zanjan with Precambrian age are located in northwest of central Iranian structural zone. Based on field observations and microscopic studies, these bodies contain tonalite, granodiorite and monzogranite. Tonalite are I-type, calc-alkaline, and peraluminous (206Pb/238U age of 576±13 Ma) which base on isotopic studies (87Sr/86Sr (i) and εNd (i) values equal to 0.710544, -7.01), and geochemistry of major and trace elements, can concluded that they were resulted from melting of amphibolitic crust that generated from thickened mafic crust or under plate basalts (with presence of plagioclase in source area) in low pressures and depth in an active continental margin. Monzogranites are S-type, peraluminous and calc-alkaline, which is plotted in collision zone. These rocks were generated from melting of crustal rocks (melt derived from pelitic rocks with high plagioclase). Granodiorite are I-type, calc-alkaline and Weakly peraluminous (206Pb/238U age of 548±27 Ma). They have value of 87Sr/86Sr (i) more than 0.705, negative value of εNd (i), and geochemical data, which is generated from partial melting of lower to middle crust, because of thickening and shortening due to continental- continental collision. With respect of geographical location of granitoid bodies of Mahneshan and age of their units, it seems that these granitoid rocks have formed in an active continental margin during convergence of Central Iran and Alborz-Azarbayjan with Arabian platform during Precambrian

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