Mohammad Mobashergermi; Reza Zarei Sahamieh; Mehraj Aghazadeh; Ahmad Ahamadi Khalaji; Gholamreza Ahmadzadeh; Peter Le Roux
Abstract
basaltic rocks in Barzand area (Continue to Kousmalyn basaltic rocks in Iran) show parallel trend with Poshtasar basalt and they have older age according to stratigraphy in comparison ...
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basaltic rocks in Barzand area (Continue to Kousmalyn basaltic rocks in Iran) show parallel trend with Poshtasar basalt and they have older age according to stratigraphy in comparison with Poshtasar basalts. These basalts whit prismatic structure mostly have mugearitic composition and show hyalomicroporphyritic and glomeroporphyritic textures. The main minerals are Ca-rich plagioclase and diopsidic clinopyroxenes. Leucites generally have been altered to analcime. The parent magma of these rocks has a potassic and shoshonitic nature. In multi- element diagrams Ta, Ti and Nb show depletion and LILE, LREE have enrichment that suggests their primary magma have been originated from a subduction related mantle source. According to radiogenic isotopic ratios, mantle source of Barzand basaltic rocks have been drived from a fertilized mantle source during 0.8 to 0.9 billion years ago. According to initial 87Sr/86Sr (0.70499 ± 0.0004) and initial 143Nd/144Nd ratios (0.5127 ± 0.0004) estimated an age for studied rocks varies between 39±1.7 to 41±1.5 million years ago. Geochemical evidence show the Barzand basaltic rocks primary magma originate from 5% partial melting of a phlogopite-beaing spinel garnet lherzolite mantle while the Poshtasar basaltic rocks from more than 5% -10% partial melting of a phlogopite-beaing spinel garnet lherzolite mantle. These rocks are related to a subduction zone mantle source that metasomatized by subduction related agents that mainly originated from turbditic sediments.The Barzand basaltic rocks Has geochemical characteristics common features with younger Poshtasar basaltic rocks and they have been erupted in a Post collisional arcs tectonic setting.
