Post-collisional mafic dykes crosscut the Paleozoic metamorphic basement and late-Variscan plutons in Les Guilleries massif (Catalan Coastal Ranges, NE Iberia). The predominance of phenocrysts, porphyritic texture, abundant amphibole, high MgO volatile content, together with crustal-like trace-element patterns indicate that correspond to calc-alkaline lamprophyres, mainly spessartites. Their en...

the kasian volcanic body is located in the eastern margin of the zagros thrust belt, close to the sanandaj-sirjan metamorphic zone. these volcanic rocks are mainly composed of andesite and andesite-basalt rocks with porphyritic, hypocrystalline porphyritic, hyalo-porphyritic and hyalo-microlitic porphyritic textures. analyses of the distributions of major, rare earth and trace elements reveal a...

Concentric layers of weathered materials around core-stones show the porphyritic biotite granite to experience sequential, but gradational, changes in visible features, textures and mineralogy as it transforms from ‘rock’ into ‘soil’. The start with opening-up grain boundaries micro-cracks (stage 1) followed by their dark brown staining 2) subsequent alteration (to sericite clay minerals) groun...

volcanic rocks of interest are situated in the middle part of the urumieh-dokhtar magmatic arc (udma). they are parts of a vast magmatic province located in the north of bitlis-zagros suture zone. having a prevailing porphyritic texture, these rocks include phenocrysts of plagioclase, amphibole and biotite in a matrix composed of feldspar, quartz, opaque, glass and microlite and mineralogically...