The lower to middle Miocene Chenar granitoid stock, a part of Central Iranian volcanic belt, is intruded into Eocene volcano-sedimentary complex in northwestern Kerman in south Central Iran. The Chenar granitoid stock consists mainly of coarse to medium grain granodiorite and monzogranite with subordinate tonalite and syenogranite. Alkali granites as aplitic veins and quartz dioritic dykes freq...

late miocene–pliocene calc-alkaline volcanic rocks are exposed southeast of isfahan in the urumieh-dokhtar magmatic belt. volcanic rocks consist of lava flows and domes, chiefly basaltic andesites, andesites and dacites. minerals in the volcanic rocks exhibit degrees of disequilibrium features. plagioclase as dominant mineral in these rocks generally displays reverse and oscillatory zoning; sie...

Archean volcanic rocks in the mafic-dominated, ca. 2.66–2.69 Ga Point Lake and Beaulieu River belts, Slave Province, Northwest Territories, are significant in demonstrating the facies that characterize specific portions of pillow volcanoes or seamounts, irrespective of tectonic setting. Three distinct localities mapped in detail display facies consistent with: (1) proximal, deep-water, (2) medi...

We investigate the genetic variation between populations of the American sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua), a tree species with a disjunct distribution between northeastern Texas and Mexico, by analyzing sequences of two chloroplast DNA plastid regions in Mesoamerica. Our results revealed phylogeographical structure, with private haplotypes distributed in unique environmental space at either s...

The Isua greenstone belt (Fig. 1) contains the oldest known, relatively well preserved, metavolcanic and metasedimentary rocks on Earth. The rocks are all deformed and many were substantially altered by metasomatism, but both the deformation and metasomatism were heterogeneous. Transitional stages can be seen from relatively well preserved primary volcanic and sedimentary structures to schists ...