The study area is located in the central part of the Siahrood geological map, Kharvanagh of Ahar town, in the East Azerbaijan Province. The volcanic rocks of the Kharvanagh area include trachybasalt, trachy-andesi-basalt and trachy-andesite. The main minerals in the rocks are plagioclase, pyroxene, olivine and hornblende and the main textures are microlitic-porphyry. At the contact between the ...

The Plio–Quaternary volcanic eruptions have made basaltic lavas in NW Iran and Azerbaijan. Basaltic lavas with prismatic structure cover the Plio-Pliostocene volcano-sedimentary or Quaternary alluviums. The studied regions are situated in Azerbaijan provinces in areas of Monnavar, Herris, Ahar, Kaleibar, Mahabad, Salmas, Maku, Marand, Sarab and Zunuz. The studied sample rocks are olivine basalt...

Today, natural disasters in different parts of the world have made it a long-term, achievable challenge to make areas safer. Meanwhile, resilience is an important way to strengthen communities by using their capacities. The present study was conducted with the purpose of spatial resilience analysis of cities in East Azarbaijan Province. The methodology of the present study is applied in terms o...

Kura bleak, Alburnus filippii, a member of the family Cyprinidae, is found in the rivers of Aras and Sefidrud, and the Anzali lagoon of Iran. The current study was conducted to provide a detailed osteological description of this sp-ecies since there was not adequate information in this regard. In order to attain this goal, 20 specimens were collected from the Ahar Chay River by electrofishing d...

Abstract Background and aims: Job burnout is the person's reaction to interpersonal stressors in the workplace. This research has been conducted to examine the role of occupational motivation and job procrastination in predicting of job burnout the employees of Ahar city hospital. Methods: The research conducted with the correlational method on 126 staffs' of the hospital that selected b...

On August 11, 2012,within several minutes, two shallow destructive earthquakes with moment magnitudes of 6.5 and 6.4 occurred in Varzagan, Azerbaijan-e-Sharghi Province, in the northwest of Iran In this study, the Empirical Green Function (EGF) method was used for strong ground motion simulationto estimate the source parameters and rupture characteristics of the earthquakes. To simulate the fir...