Petrological Journal

Petrogenesis and dating of Doran and Shah Bolaghi intrusions: Implications for post-collisional sodic and high-silica granitic magmatism

Zahra Badrzadeh; Mehraj Aghazadeh

Volume 13, Issue 3 , December 2022, , Pages 131-160

https://doi.org/10.22108/ijp.2022.132527.1268

Abstract

IntroductionThe Precambrian-Early Cambrian magmatism in Iran includes magmatic rocks in the central, northwestern (e.g. Tekab-Zanjan zone), and northeastern parts of the Iranian plate. ... Read More IntroductionThe Precambrian-Early Cambrian magmatism in Iran includes magmatic rocks in the central, northwestern (e.g. Tekab-Zanjan zone), and northeastern parts of the Iranian plate. Although in the previous literature, the petrogenesis and tectonic setting of these rocks were attributed to the rifting and extensional tectonic regime but recent studies emphasized that they formed in a convergent subduction-related tectonic setting. In this study geology, geochemistry, petrogenesis, and dating of Doran and Shah Bolaghi (Moghanlu) intrusions as the best examples of the Precambrian-Early Cambrian magmatism in the NW Iran have been investigated.GeologyIn NW Iran, there are intrusive and related volcanic rocks that have been outcropped in a special stratigraphic position. The intrusive rocks cut the Precambrian Kahar Formation rocks and are overlaid by the Bayandor Formation rocks. Stratigraphically, the equivalent volcanic rocks (Gara Dash rhyolitic series rocks) lie between over Kahar and lower Soltanieh Formation rocks. In the area, Doran–type intrusions including Doran, Moghanlu, Incheh, Sarveh Jahan, Mahneshan, Aghkand, and Alam Kandi, have been intruded as batholith (e.g. Shah Bolaghi) and as stocks (e.g. Doran and Sarveh Jahan) and mainly they affected by dynamo thermal metamorphism. The studied Doran and Moghanlu intrusions included different felsic pulses of the oldest mica granite, hololeucocratic porphyritic granite, and the youngest potassium feldspar-bearing pink granite associated with basic rocks.PetrographyThe studied plutons including different pulses display various mineralogy. The Hololeucocratic mica granites show granular to porphyry textures including quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase associated with biotite and rare muscovite. Some albite crystals are magmatic and chessboard albites formed during Na-metasomatism. Hololeucocratic porphyry granite show various porphyry and granular as well as cataclastic textures. Secondary chessboard and myrmekitic albite developed along with primary albite and antiperthite feldspars. Rare primary muscovite can be found. Pink granite includes quartz and alkali feldspar and plagioclase minerals with porphyry to granular textures and some hypersolvus potassium feldspar megacrysts developed. Rare muscovite and biotite crystals have been developed. In all granitic rocks, recrystallization and secondary minerals have been developed due to metamorphism, tectonic and metasomatism processes.GeochemistryAll granitic rocks show high silica content (79-82 wt.%) and in the R1-R2 diagram located in alkali granite to syenogranite fields and metaluminous to weak peraluminous. Basic rocks have 49-50 wt% SiO2 content and are olivine gabbro. The TiO2, Fe2O3, MgO, CaO, and P2O5 contents of studied granitic rocks are very low and porphyry granite and mica granites show very low K2O and high Na2O contents but mica granites show K2O/Na2O~1. In the spider diagrams, the porphyry granite samples show enrichment in the Zr, Th, Nb, Ta, U, and HREE (heavy rare earth elements) and trough in the LREE (light rare earth elements), and large ion lithophile elements (LILE: Cs, Rb, Ba, K), P, Ti, E, however, the mica granites are characterized by LILE (Cs, Rb, Ba), Sr, K, P, Ti, Eu, HREE, LREE, Zr, Th, and U enrichment, and the pink granites show a diverse pattern with enrichment in LILE and LREE and depletion in Sr, P, Nb, Ta, and Ti. All granitic samples show very clear troughs in Eu and Eu/Eu*.U-Pb DatingZircon crystals from Doran porphyry granite and the Shah Bolaghi pink granite have been dated by the U-Pb method. The porphyry granite apparent 206Pb/238U ages range from 515 to 1192 Ma. In the relative frequency histogram, the porphyry granite ages show two peaks in 550 and 1050 Ma, which older ages can be related to inherited crystals and or captured crystals during ascending of the magma. Pink granite apparent 206Pb/238U ages range from 478 to 657 Ma. The porphyry granite zircon crystals' younger ages yield a weight mean of 565 ± 28 Ma, 95% conf. n=14, MSWD=0.54 and the pink granite ages yield a weight mean 538 ± 12 Ma, 95% conf. n=23, MSWD=1.02. Dating results are compatible with field observation that the pink granite cut porphyry granite.DiscussionThe studied granitic intrusions are inhomogeneous and different mica granite, granite porphyry, and pink granite associated with basic rocks could be distinguished. The investigated granitic rocks are marked by A/CNK<1.1 and Zr+Nb+Ce+Y <300 as well as 104*Ga/Al<2.6 that are different from S- and A-type granites and very high silica content and lower La, Y, Nb, Zr, Ga, Zn, Ce contents which led us to be considered as fractionated I-type granites. Different petrogenetic models have been proposed for fractionated I-type granites generation, including:(1) Partial melting of the crust which the melt composition may have been modified by fractional crystallization;(2) fractional crystallization of hornblende and clinopyroxene from initial intermediate to mafic melts;(3) involvement of a fluid residual or hydrothermal phase during late magmatic stages.Moreover, the source rocks for these felsic granites are also debated, including aluminous sedimentary rocks, tonalitic rocks, underplated mantle-derived materials, or mixtures of crustal and mantle-derived materials in different crustal levels. The granitic rocks under study could not be originated from the fractional crystallization of mafic rocks because they do not show high volume in the area. They show different trends in the Harker diagrams and could not be fractionated from each other and geochemical features (e.g. TiO2/MgO ratio) show that they originated from different protoliths in the crust. Porphyry- and Mica –granites show high Na2O content and can be considered albite granite. According to textural relationship and zircon crystals morphology, high Na2O content in the studied albite-rich porphyry and mica granites belonged to the magmatic stage. Geochemical features imply that sodic granites originated from the partial melting of old crust and/or mixing of melts from the old crust and lower crust with some contributions of mantle-originated magmas. According to Patiño Douce (1999), mica granites can be derived from the partial melting of metamorphosed felsitic pelitic rocks. High Rb/Sr and K2O/Na2O ratios in the pink granite and low P2O5, Sr, and Eu contents are consistent with derivation via partial melting of lower crust with tonalitic to granodioritic composition. Basic rocks originated from the metasomatized mantle that has been affected by subduction agents. According to Pearce (1996), the granitic and the basic rocks belong to a syn- to post-orogenic tectonic setting and basic rocks belong to a post-collisional tectonic setting

Mineralogy and geochemistry of hydrothermal alteration zones underlying the Sargaz Volcanic–Hosted Massive Sulfide Deposit, SE of Kerman

Zahra Badrzadeh

Volume 12, Issue 4 , February 2022, , Pages 77-100

https://doi.org/10.22108/ijp.2022.132135.1262

Abstract

The Sargaz Cu–Zn volcanogenic massive sulfide deposit, in the southern Sanandaj–Sirjan Zone, composed of felsic and mafic volcanoclastic, volcanic rocks, with sandstone, ... Read More The Sargaz Cu–Zn volcanogenic massive sulfide deposit, in the southern Sanandaj–Sirjan Zone, composed of felsic and mafic volcanoclastic, volcanic rocks, with sandstone, limestone and calcareous tuff and NW-SE trending. The basaltic host rocks with mostly tholeiitic to transitional affinity host the massive sulfide mineralization. The alteration zones related to mineralization system representing the channels of ascending hydrothermal solutions existing within a footwall alteration pipe, with a central siliceous and quartz–sericite core giving rise to zones of quartz–chlorite, chlorite–quartz, and finally chlorite–sericite (stringer envelope zone) on the margins. Pervasive alteration started with the development of chlorite–sericite subsequently overprinted by chlorite, sericite, and finally quartz as hydrothermal activity intensified in the center of the alteration zone. Despite intense alteration of the volcanic rocks, immobile elements (i.e. Ti, Zr) have remained essentially immobile, which allows identification of the precursors and calculation of mass changes. Mass changes calculated for mafic footwall rocks indicating most of the volcanic rocks in the mine area are strongly depleted in Na2O and CaO, and highly enriched in MgO, Si2O and K2O. The Si content is the largest within 5–10 m of the massive sulfide lenses. Intensely silicified footwall basaltic rocks underlie the massive sulfide lens in Sargaz deposit were characterized by white to grey, microcrystalline silica. Mass change analysis of altered footwall basaltic rocks immediately below the massive sulphide zone shows the SiO2 content increases to about 90%. The chloritic and chlorite–sericite alteration zones were enriched in Fe, Mg, with only small amount of K in the chlorite–sericite zone but depleted in Na and Ca most likely due to the alteration of clinopyroxene, plagioclase, and volcanic glass. The change from chloritization to silicification and sericitization must be accompanied by a reduction in pH during silicification and sericitization. Identification of such alteration patterns can be used as an exploration key in other massive sulfide mineral exploration.

Geochemistry and Petrogenesis of Carboniferous volcanic rocks, NW Marand: Evidence for interacontinental rift Magmatism)

Zahra Badrzadeh; Mehraj Aghazadeh; Sahar Fathi

Volume 11, Issue 3 , December 2020, , Pages 21-40

https://doi.org/10.22108/ijp.2020.122485.1173

Abstract

The studied volcanic-sedimentary sequence located at the East-Azarbaijan province, north Marand and in the Central Iranian structural zone. The studied sequence composed of alternative ... Read More

Geochemistry and Petrogenesis of Mata Lower Jurassic basaltic rocks, Southeast Kerman, Implication to Southern Sanandaj-Sirjan zone evolution

Zahra Badrzadeh

Volume 9, Issue 4 , March 2019, , Pages 153-170

https://doi.org/10.22108/ijp.2018.110107.1078

Abstract

Lower Jurassic volcanic-sedimentary sequence in the southern end of the Sanandaj-Sirjan zone, north of Mata village (southwest Jiroft), composed of tuffaceous limestone, calcareous ... Read More

Geochemistry and petrogenesis of Eocene shoshonitic ‎and adakitic volcanic rocks in Sonajeel area ‎(Southeast of Heris, Eastern Azerbaijan)‎

Nasibeh Nemati; Mehraj Aghazadeh; Zahra Badrzadeh

Volume 9, Issue 3 , December 2018, , Pages 147-172

https://doi.org/10.22108/ijp.2018.104987.1037

Abstract

The studied area is located in the SE of Heris (Eastern Azerbaijan province) and the Alborz-Azerbaijan structural zone. The Eocene volcanic rocks in the area of under study show various ... Read More

Geology and U-Pb age dating of intrusive bodies in Sungun deposit

Mehraj Aghazadeh; Zahra Badrzadeh

Volume 6, Issue 22 , July 2015, , Pages 1-24

Abstract

The Sungun porphyry copper deposit is located in the NW of Iran. Most rock outcrops in the region and the surrounding area comprise the Cretaceous metamorphosed and skarnish carbonates ... Read More

Articles in Press

Current Issue

Volume 13 (2022)

Volume 12 (2021)

Volume 11 (2020)

Volume 10 (2019)

Volume 9 (2018)

Volume 8 (2017)

Volume 7 (2016)

Volume 6 (2015)

Volume 5 (2014)

Volume 4 (2013)

Volume 3 (2012)

Volume 2 (2011)

Volume 1 (2010)

Author = Badrzadeh, Zahra

Petrogenesis and dating of Doran and Shah Bolaghi intrusions: Implications for post-collisional sodic and high-silica granitic magmatism

Abstract

Mineralogy and geochemistry of hydrothermal alteration zones underlying the Sargaz Volcanic–Hosted Massive Sulfide Deposit, SE of Kerman

Abstract

Geochemistry and Petrogenesis of Carboniferous volcanic rocks, NW Marand: Evidence for interacontinental rift Magmatism)

Abstract

Geochemistry and Petrogenesis of Mata Lower Jurassic basaltic rocks, Southeast Kerman, Implication to Southern Sanandaj-Sirjan zone evolution

Abstract

Geochemistry and petrogenesis of Eocene shoshonitic ‎and adakitic volcanic rocks in Sonajeel area ‎(Southeast of Heris, Eastern Azerbaijan)‎

Abstract

Geology and U-Pb age dating of intrusive bodies in Sungun deposit

Abstract