Formation of clay minerals is affected by soil forming factors which in turn play an important role in soil management. The aim of the present research was to study genesis, classification, and clay mineralogy of Koshkooiyeh-Anar soils. Four representative pedons were studied for physicochemical and clay mineralogy analyses. Gypsic, salic, and natric were among the diagnostic horizons that have...

Boznein vein-type has penetrated in the porphyric rhyolite-hosted and along a single northeast-trending reverse fault. Microscopic studies and electron microprobe data, show the presence of a variety of Mn minerals such as spessartine, rhodochrosite, bixbyite, hausmannite, braunite, pyrolusite, psilomelane, cryptomelane, manganite and mangano-calcite in the Mn deposit as well as braunite, pyrol...

Based on field observation, magnetic data results and chemical analysis of the samples in the Haj - Elyas area northwest of Nehbandan, an iron ore body within the Lower Cretaceous dolomitic limestone, was identified. The intrusion of a Fe-bearing porphyritic diorite into the dolomitic limestone caused the occurrence of iron mineralization in the area. Studies of 750 meters of diamond drill Core...

 Kamar Tallar mineralization zone in Gazik area is engulfed within ophiolitic melange in Sistan suture zone in east of Iran .The Mn- bearing ore bodies of Kamar Tallar are occurred as discontinuous patches intimately associated with cherts and meta – spilites. Field evidences and study of trenches show that the Mn- bearing patches are principally superficial and laterally limited. Braunite, Bix...

Granitoid bodies of  south of Damghan with northeast-  southwest trend have intruded into the  Eocene volcanic,volcanoclastic and Cretaceous carbonate deposits. Recent studies have revealed that the Al content of hornblende in calc-alkaline granitoids varies linearly with pressure of crystallization , thereby providing a mean of determining depth of pluton emplacement . Based on  results of  el...