Mahmoud Sadeghian; Negar Gavanji; Habib Allah Ghaesmi; Ramazan Ramazani Omali
Abstract
Zafarghand granitoid pluton with compositional range from gabbro to granite and early to middle Miocene age cropped out about 35 km of SE Ardestan. This pluton intrudedthe Eocene ...
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Zafarghand granitoid pluton with compositional range from gabbro to granite and early to middle Miocene age cropped out about 35 km of SE Ardestan. This pluton intrudedthe Eocene volcanic and volcanosedimentary rocks of the Urumieh - Dokhtar structuralzone. In this research, for the first time, the emplacement mechanism of Zafarghandgranitoidic pluton method has been investigated using of anisotropy of magneticsusceptibility (AMS). Based on field observations, as well as petrography andinterpretations of magnetic parameters, Zafarghand pluton divided into 5 domains (1A,1B, 2, 3, 4 and 5). Domain 1, in turn, is divided into 1A and 1B. Domains 2 and 4 arelithologically, gabbro to quartzdiorite and have been emplaced first. They have playedas feeder zones. Domains 1A, 1B, 3, and 5 are dominantly granodioritic to graniticcomposition and have been emplaced as a big and low dip magmatic flow (or possibly as a sill). The occurrence of gabbro to quartzdiorite as well as grandiorite, granite andtonalite in the margin borders of the body, are all indication of magma mixing. It isshould be noted that during emplacement of the pluton studied, fractionalcrystallization, magma mixing and crustal contamination contributed to its generationand the evolution as well.
