Bafgh Mishdovan ore body is located in the Central Iranian zone and is recognized as potential of the sillimanite group minerals. In this region, the outcrops of the different formations can be observed which mainly consist of the Precambrian metamorphic rocks. Silimanite group minerals are existed in the schistic rocks. The area is located in a tectonized zone and subjected to regional metamor...

Contact metamorphism in the Shahindezh Metamorphic Core (SMC), which is occurred due to intrusion of Pichaghchi granodiorite during Laramian orogeny (Upper Cretaceous), is studied here. The well deve loped mineral parageneses at the aureo le is quatz + plagioclase + biotite + cordierite ± chlorite ± K-feldspar ± muscovite ± andalusite ± sillimanite ± garnet. Pressure and temperature of the...

Microstructural and petrographical features as well as field relations, show that formation of the metapelitic rocks of Bolandparchin and Poshtuk in northwestern Iran was poly-metamorphic. Mineral assemblages in the metapelites of two areas are different. The Bolandparchin schists are graphite-rich and have dark color. Peak metamorphic assemblage is garnet, biotite, staurolite, aluminosilicate ...

Intrusion of the Chahghand gabbrodiorite in regionally metamorphosed rocks of the Sanandaj-Sirjan zone in NE of Neyriz has caused contact metamorphism. A variety of pelitic hornfelses are formed as a result of thermal metamorphism. Spatial distribution of minerals in the Chahghand aureole defines three mineralogical zones namely cordierite, andalusite and sillimanite zones. Study of metamo...

The mechanism of fibrolite formation in metapelitic rocks of the contact aureole of Mashhad granite is examined in this study. According to textural features, fibrolite considered to be disharmonious. Textural evidence strongly suggests that most of the fibrolite in this aureole are formed by decomposition of biotite. Fibrolite produced late in the thermal history of the aureole through a react...