Siah-Kamar hornfalses and skarns are located about 5Km east of Dehsalm and 85Km west of Nehbandan city, southeast of Birjand Province and east of Lut Block. This Skarn formed by injected Rigi granitoid (Eocene age) into limestone and sandstone (Upper Cratacious).  Rigi Mountain is mainly granodiorite in composition and contains plagioclase, quartz, hornbelend and biotite minerals. Geochemistry ...

The Precambrian Takab complex consists of various metamorphic rocks including metabasites, metaultramafic rocks, calc-silicates and marbles which are metamorphosed under green schist to granulite facies. The pick metamorphic rocks are retrogressively metamorphosed during crustal exhumation related to pressure and temperature decreasing as well as H2O-rich fluid infiltrations. Retrograde metamor...

Extrusive igneous rocks are formed the main part of geological units in northeast region of Birjand. Investigation shows that these igneous rocks can be divided into rhyolitic, dacitic, andesitic and an especial group including basaltic andesite and basalts. In Later group that differ from the others according to geochemical and mineralogical characteristics, there are limited outcrops of high ...

Eocene volcanic rocks in south of Asad Abad (north-east of Koohpayeh, Isfahan Province) experienced very low-grade metamorphism (hydrothermal metamorphism), resulting in prehnite, malachite, azurite, zeolite, quartz and calcite crystallization in cavities and fractures. Chlorite (brunsvigite) and amphibole (ferro-actinolite) appear on secondary phases. Augite and labradorite are two main minera...

On the basis of microstructural evidence it is clear that SMC metapelites have experienced at least two regional (RM1, RM2) and one contact metamorphism (CM). During RM2, several porphyroblasts including kyanite, andalusite, staurolite, cordierite, garnet and fibrous sillimanite have grown in the mica - schists. In order to estimate the PT condition of metamorphism of metapelites, we used catio...