A swarm of minette and melanephelinite dikes is exposed over 2500 km 2 in and near the Wasatch Plateau, central Utah, along the western margin of the Colorado Plateaus in the transition zone with the Basin and Range province. To date, 110 vertical dikes in 25 dike sets have been recognized. Strikes shift from about N80øW for 24 Ma dikes, to about N60øW for 18 Ma, to due north for 8-7 m.y. These...

Abstract Plagioclase phenocrysts in pre-historic andesites provide insight to the dynamics of magma formation and eruption at Taranaki volcano, New Zealand. The phenocryst population has a diversity relic cores total situ 87 Sr/ 86 Sr range 0.70440–0.70486. Within-sample variations 0.00018 0.00043 indicate that many are antecrysts and/or xenocrysts, derived from multiple crystal mush bodies. Sr...

Background & Aims: Alopecia areata is a chronic inflammatory disorder that affects the hair follicles. The condition most commonly presents with the sudden appearance of non-scarring discrete patches of alopecia on the scalp. Due to being an autoimmune disease, alopecia areata is observed in concomitantly with other diseases. In some studies, ocular alterations were surveyed in these patients. ...

eastern iran has great potential for porphyry copper deposits, as a result of its past subduction zone tectonic setting that lead to extensive alkaline to calc-alkaline magmatic activity in tertiary time. maherabad is the first porphyry cu-au prospecting area which is discovered in eastern iran. this is related to a succession o f monzonitic to dioritic porphyries stocks that were emplaced with...