In Khoy ophiolitic massif (NW of Iran) three types of quartzite and also quartz bearing veins can be distinguished: massive quartzite, quartz bearing veins in the amphibolites and siliceous veins in the radiolarian cherts. Massive quartzites contain quartz porphyroclasts associated with very   small- deformed quartz neoblasts. These quartzites are deformed in regime I and recrystallized as grai...

The study area forms part of the Zagros Zone. It is located on the NW of Piranshahr town, NW Iran. The study of altered peridotite clasts of the Creteceous conglomerate is the main subject of this research. They have polygenetic origins having calcite as the constituent cement. The size of clast is ranging from mm to cm including sedimentary and metamorphic rocks fragments, altered peridotites ...

The Darvazeh-Chenar mafic- ultramafic body is part of ophiolitic complex of Neyriz in Fars Province that formed in association with closing of Neo-Tethys Ocean and Arabian- Iranian plate collision in Cretaceous. The Faryab ophiolitic rocks are also remnant of block of Tethys oceanic crust that were obducted on continental margins in late Cretaceous period. MgO, Fe2O3, Al2O3, Cr2O3 and TiO2 cont...

Northeast Kamyaran ophiolitic complex is mainly composed of harzburgite along with small outcrops of lherzolite. Harzburgites are extensively altered to serpentinite. Small lenses of chromite mineralization are observed in harzburgites. The mineral assemblage present in the study harzburgite and lherzolite are olivine, orthopyroxene and clinopyroxene along with minor amount of spinel. Microprob...