The study area is located in Hamedan Province adjacent to Alvand plutonic body in the Sanandaj-Sirjan zone. Various contact and regional metamorphic rocks, from low to high grade exist in contact of Alvand plutonic body including schists, hornfelses and migmatites. Kyanite-bearing rocks volumetrically are not widespread but occur as various outcrops (in migmatite, hornfels and quartz-kyanite ve...

Detailed microstructural analysis has been conducted in the Ghandab metamorphic Complex, which is one of the most important high temperature – low pressure regional contact metamorphism studied areas in Iran. Textural evidence suggests the sequence of growth of minerals with increasing metamorphic grade and during development of a crenulation foliation. The sequence of mineral growth is conside...

The Deh-Salm Metamorphic Complex (DMC) is composed of metapelite, metabasite, metaperidotite, and calc-silicate rocks and is one of the few outcrops of the Lut block’s basement which emerged near to the Sistan suture zone. In the eastern part of the Deh-Salm metamorphic complex, the calc-silicate and marble appeared in the form of elongated tectonic lenses that have been metamorphosed in simila...

The calc-silicate xenoliths, within the Shir-Kuh batholith are characterized by melilite, garnet, vesuvianite, and wollastonite mineral assemblage. On the basis of  paragenetic relations, prograde and retrograde metamorphism are involved in the formation of these minerals. Melilite, wollastonite and diopside formed during progressive metamorphism which was accompanied by thermal peak shocking a...