The alkaline extrusive rocks of Neogene from Nehbandan-Assagie region, eastern Iran, include basanite, hawaiite, mugearite and benmoreite. Relatively low Ni and Cr contents and Mg-numbers of basanites are indicative of olivine and clinopyroxene fractionation from their relevant primary magma. Decreasing of CaO, TiO2, FeOt, HREEs and MREEs with increasing SiO2 indicate fractional crystallization...

Arousan -e- Kaboudan area, located about 115 km northeast of Nain (south of Choupanan), is part of Central Iran (Yazad block). The Eocene volcanic rocks of the area are composed of lavas and pyroclastic rocks. The lavas can be divided into acidic (rhyodacite) and relatively basic-basic (trachyandesite, mugearite and hawaiite) rocks. The textures of these rocks are trachytic, hyaloporphyritic an...

Eocene volcanic and volcano- sedimentary rocks cover a large area in the Gardaneh Ahovan northeast of Semnan. These rocks comprise mainly of basalt, andesite, trachyandesite, rhyolite and dacite with hyalo porphyry, porphyry and glomeroporphyry textures. The basaltic rocks are composed of plagioclase and clinopyroxene phenocrysts. Sericite, kaolinite, calcite and chlorite also form the secondar...

In northern hillside of Central Alborz, south of the Kamarbon village, there is an outcrop of alkaline gabbro that has fine grain theralite in margins and toward the center, changes to coarse grain teschenite. In the teschenitic rocks the main minerals are diopside clinopyroxenes and rhonite. In this research, the occurrence of this mineral in Kamarbon gabbroic intrusion is reported and its min...

The study area is located in Central Iranian volcano-plutonic copper belt (Dehaj-Sarduiyeh belt) about 42 Km northeast of Shahrbabak in Kerman Province. Based on petrographic studies, extrusive rocks have the composition from trachyandesite, andesite basaltic and andesite to dacite with Eocene age. Mineralogically, the rocks contain plagioclase, amphibole, biotite and quartz. Chlorite, calcite,...

Several igneous-evaporitic rocks complexes, belonging to Lower Cambrian, are exposed in High Zagros. These rocks exposed parallel to the Zagros main thrust as diapir-shaped bodies. Basaltic rocks are the most common rocks but microgabbro, microdiorite, andesite and trachyte are the rocks of this complex. The studied clinopyroxenes are usually fresh mafic mineral in these rocks and display secto...

There are scattered exposures of young volcanic rocks in Hamun Lake Area in south western and north western of Zabol in east of Iran. The microscopic evidences and geochemical analysis show that these rocks are olivine basalt and basalt to trachy basalt. The main textures of these rocks are porphyry, microlitic porphyry and vesicular. The main phenocrysts of these rocks are olivine, clinopyroxe...