Alkaline volcanic rocks of the northwest of Marand with Plio-Quaternary age are located in the northern part of Urumieh-Dokhtar Magmatic Arc. These rocks have a distinct enrichment in LILE and LREE and depletion in HFSE (such as Ta and Nb) and high Ba/Ta and Ba/Nb ratios, which are among the characteristics of subduction zones. The majority of hornblenditic autholiths and hornblenditic xenolith...

Plio-Quaternary volcanic eruptions in southeast of Nehbandan are composed of basic rocks, overlying the Late Cretaceous flysch-type and younger alluvium deposits. Petrographically, these rocks are basalt, basaltic andesite and andesite. These lavas are characterized by porphyritic, microlitic-porphyry, trachytic and glomeropophyritic textures. They contain plagioclase, clinopyroxene (augite), o...

Several igneous-evaporitic rocks complexes, belonging to Lower Cambrian, are exposed in High Zagros. These rocks exposed parallel to the Zagros main thrust as diapir-shaped bodies. Basaltic rocks are the most common rocks but microgabbro, microdiorite, andesite and trachyte are the rocks of this complex. The studied clinopyroxenes are usually fresh mafic mineral in these rocks and display secto...

Estaj manganese deposit is located close to the Estaj village, 40 km southwest of Sabzevar, in Central Iran and Sabzevar subzone. Based on field evidences and microscopic studies, the rock units of the study area are pyroxene hornblende tracy Andesite, crystalin andesitic tuff, pyroxen hornblende andesite, pyroxen andesite- basalt, chert and limstone. These rock units belong to Late Cretaceous ...

Eocene volcanic rocks of north Anarak area are as scattered as masses. These rocks cross the Anarak schists and Ashin-Zavar ophiolites but had not metamorphosed them. Their outcrops follow the direction of within the area faults. Mineralogicaly, these rocks are limited in composition from Andesi-Basalt and Andesite to Dacite. These rocks have phenocrysts of amphibole and plagioclase in microcry...