binaloud mountains formed during collision of iran and turan plate in the late triassic time and caused shortening of the sedimentary cover because of cimmerian and alpine orogeny. the thrust sheets with different generations formed as a results of the binalood and alborz fold- thrust belts. northeast of iran that was already south coast of the divergent margin of the paleothetys ocean at this ...

The Olang area is a part of Gheshlagh-Olang synclinal, which is a member of eastern Alborz coal basin and is situated at a distance of70 km northeast of Shahroud city. Coal-bearing strata of this region are part of the Shemshak group (Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic).Samples from the 9 coal seams of the Olang coal deposits were collected and ashed. The aim of this study is to determine theoccu...

introduction more than 30 fluorite occurrences with approximately 1.35 million tons of reserves have been recognized in iran (ghorbani, 2013). the atashkuh fluorite-barite (±sulfide) deposit is one of four occurrences located south of the city of delijan in markazi province, about 80 km se of arak city. the atashkuh deposit occurs between the central iran structural zone on the north and the sa...

introduction the alborz structural zone in northern iran is the host of a number of important coal deposits. the gheshlagh coal mine is one of them, which is located 35 km southeast of azadshahr. coal bearing strata in the gheshlagh mining district occur in the middle part of the lower jurassic shemshak formation which consists mainly of shales, siltstones and sandstones. the geshlagh coals hav...

the iranian east magmatic assemblage (iema) in the central lut region, hosted porphyry and vein-type polymetallic mineralization. the galechah-shurab mining district is located in nw of the iema. volcanic and subvolcanic bodies in the area are composed of calc-alkaline porphyry quartz-latite, porphyry dacite and rhyodacite and hornblende-biotite andesite, equivalent to i-type granite. they empl...

over the last two decades there have been numerous reports from different seismically active regions of the world that thermal infrared (tir) anomalies can be identified around the epicentral areas before major earthquakes [e.g. (tronin et al., 2002)]. the tir anomalies reportedly appear as early as 14 to 7 days before the seismic events and affect areas as large as 1000s to 100,000s km2 in siz...