In a study of plants collected from the NW Iran, a specimen was identified as Arabis carduchorum Boiss.(Cullen 1965).

The South Armenian Block (SAB) belongs to the Lesser Caucasus, and it is located where Central Tethyan belt bends from an EW orientation in Turkey NW-oriented Iranian tectonic zones. Magmatism these belts result of convergence, collision post-collision evolution Arabian plate with Eurasian margin. An exhaustive study including whole-rock major, trace element, radiogenic isotope (Sr, Nd, Pb) dat...