Document Type : Original Research Paper

Authors

• shahriar keshtgar ¹
• Sasan Bagheri ²
• shahriar keshtgar ³

¹ Instructor, University of Applied Science and Technology of Sistan and Baluchestan, Zahedan, Iran

² Assistant Professor, Department of Geology, University of Sistan and Baluchestan, Zahedan, Iran

³ Associate Professor, Department of Geology, University of Sistan and Baluchestan, Zahedan, Iran

Abstract

Abstract
The Mahirud volcano-plutonic Complex (MVPC), known as Cheshmeh Ostad Group, an rock assemblage including several plutons and volcano-sedimentary successions, crops out at the northeastern part of the Sistan Suture Zone. Igneous rocks of the MVPC, consist of volcanic lavas and pyrclastic rocks, are andesitic basalt, diabase, microgabbro and dacite that were intruded by the late cretaceous granitoids. The volcanic rocks have characteristics of the calc-alkaline to tholeiitic magmatic series. The spider patterns normalized to N-MORB and Chondrite is similar to the ones belong to the supra-subduction zone (SSZ) and Islanc arcs ( IAT). The EPMA studies on the key minerals in volcanic rocks such as clinopyroxene , brought the same results. The pribable presence of an island-arc chain in the Sistan Suture Zone, which some of its parts are considered here as the MVPC, is comparable to continuation of the pakistanian Chagai-Raskoh and Kuhistan Cretaceous-Eocene island-arc/s in east. Considering this reality, we must expect to have a larger ocean much wider than what was already proposed for the Sistan Ocean as a narrow oceanic seaway in Continental rifting setting.

Keywords

• Island arc
• Cheshmeostad
• Sistan suture zone
• East of Iran

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Main Subjects

• Economic Geology