the subduction of the northern part of the tethys is documented by arc magmatism from upper triassic to lower eocene crosscutting the sanandaj-sirjan zone and from upper eocene to plio-quaternary in the urumieh-dokhtar magmatic zone, situated north of the ssz. neyriz ophiolite is part of middle eatern neo-tethyan ocean of mesozoic that geographically is related to ophiolites of nw-se iran, alon...

TWO different spinels, analyses of which are given, occur in the layered ultramafic rocks at Dawros. Chrome spinel occurs both as gravity-stratified cumulates and as complex orbs, while an Al-rich spinel is both in rocks of the main Dawros magmatic sequence and in an association with an aluminous bronzite, which may originate by recrystallization. It is concluded that while the chrome spinel is...

The podiform chromitite deposits of the Ordovician Sorkhband ultramafic complex, southwestern Makran, are the largest chromitite deposits in Iran. The Sorkhband ultramafic complex comprises of a northern part of dunite, podiform chromitite, olivine clinopyroxenite, wehrlite and olivine websterite and a southern part of foliated diopsidic harzburgite with subordinate dunite, olivine clinopyroxen...

The Mashhad ultramafic complex with a Permo-Triassic stratigraphic age is exposed at the NE of Binaloud Mountain and the SW to NW of Mashhad city. This area is mainly composed of mafic and ultramafic rocks, metamorphosed carbonate and pelitic rocks and granitoids in a NW- SE trend. Serpentinized amphibole-peridotites are the main types of ultramafic rocks in this area. Minerals in these rocks i...

Eudialyte-group minerals are important accessory of peralkaline rocks nepheline-syenite massifs and alkaline–ultramafic complexes. Here, we report the complex study a eudialyte-group mineral (EGM) from pegmatite alkaline-ultrabasic Odikhincha massif (Polar Siberia). The chemical composition studied EGM is intermediate between those taseqite eudialyte, with small admixtures other members eudialy...

Serpentinization of ultramafic rock can generate conditions favorable for microbial methane (CH 4 ) cycling, including the abiotic production hydrogen (H 2 and possibly CH . Systems low-temperature serpentinization are geobiological targets due to their potential harbor life ubiquity throughout Earth’s history. Biomass in fracture waters collected from Samail Ophiolite Oman, a system undergoing...

The Po-Adriatic region offers an excellent case for reconstructing sediment provenance and transport pathways of a multi-sourced sediment-routing system. Through comprehensive set ∼1400 geochemical data, model flux was built based on distinct compositional fingerprints 53 fluvial systems their comparison to coastal, shelf deep-marine sediments. Geochemically unique catchment lithologies (mafic/...

Introduction: Lunar high-titanium (HiTi) ultra-mafic glasses provide us with evidence of the mantle processes that led to the melting of the lunar magma ocean cumulates nearly one billion years after the magma ocean solidified. Constraints on the depth, temperature and melting processes that formed the HiTi glasses are crucial for understanding the melting history of LMO products. The Apollo 17...