Diabase dikes in the West Aghda  (Yazd Province) are located within the Bahramtaj mine in the Central Iran zone. These dikes are dark gray and crops out in the limestone-dolomite rocks. They are located along the east-west faults of the West Aghda. Plagioclase, biotite, amphibole, and pyroxene are the main minerals in these dikes. Plagioclases are andesine, biotite are often iron type (FeO: 24....

SahebDivan porphyry copper system is located in Alborz-Azarbaijan magmatic zone at northwest Iran. Based on geological surveys, petrographic and geochemical studies, indicated that mineralized stock in this system mainly cosists of granodiorite, diorite and monzonite rocks. These rocks are peraluminous and belong to high-K calc-alkaline and shoshonitic magma series and plotted in the field of I...

Basaltic volcanic rocks with pillow structures are exposed at the southeasternmost extremity of the Sanandaj-Sirjan zone.They belong to volcanic-sedimentary complexes that formed in a general northwest-southeast to north-south trend. In this research, the mineral chemistry of clinopyroxene and plagioclases are employed to study physicochemical conditions and paleo-tectonic setting during genera...

The Kuhkamar shale with a thickness of 354 m is composed of siliciclastic rocks (sandstone and shale). Petrography studies of the sandstones in this area show two petrofacies including arkose and sub-arkose. These sandstones composed of sub rounded to moderately sorted; therefore, compositionaly to texturaly, they are immature to submature with mono and polycrystalline quartz and k-feldespar. I...

Khoy ophiolitic complex in northwest of Iran have several chromitite bodies with various textures, different geochemical features and associated minerals. Based on Cr#, Khoy chromitites are divided into two groups: high-Cr (Cr# > 0.6) and high-Al (Cr# < 0.6) chromitites. The high-Cr contain some amount of PGEs with tiny grains of platinum-group minerals (PGM), whereas, high-Al chromitites are p...

Bagham pluton is located in 23 km of the southeastern of Ardestan and it is near the main road of Esfahan-Ardestan. The study area is a part of central Iranian zone and Urumieh-Dokhtar magmatic belt. Minerlogically, the rocks include plagioclase, pyroxene, amphibole and opaque. The rocks have SiO2 = 44.75-47.08 and occur in gabbroic field. The chondrite normalized REE pattern show low enrichmen...

Eocene- Oligocene volcanic and subvolcanic bodies of Masjed-Daghi Located in 35 km East of Jolfa close of Aras River. On the base of structural geology the study area is a part of the West Alborz-Azarbayejan zone. Volcanic rocks are rhyolite, dacite to trachyandesite and subvolcanic rocks are porphyritic monzonite to diorite. The Formation of these rocks related to  subduction zone in an active...

Incheh granitoid intrusive body is located in east of Heris, East-Azarbaidjan. It intruded the older rock units including the Sonajil sub-volcanic stock (upper Eocene-lower Oligocene) of micro-diorite porphyry composition. The Incheh intrusive ranges in composition from diorite through syeno-diorite to quartz-diorite. The major constituent minerals include plagioclase, hornblende, and pyroxene ...