Pillow lava rims from the Mesoarchean Barberton Greenstone Belt in South Africa contain micrometer-scale mineralized tubes that provide evidence of submarine microbial activity during the early history of Earth. The tubes formed during microbial etching of glass along fractures, as seen in pillow lavas from recent oceanic crust. The margins of the tubes contain organic carbon, and many of the p...

The Ghohroud granitoids (GG), containing mafic microgranular enclaves (MMEs) are located in the central part of Urumieh-Dokhtar Magmatic Arc (UDMA) Iran. They associated with subduction-related magmatism Alpine-Himalayan orogenic belt. GG comprised a variety intermediate and felsic rocks, including tonalite, granodiorite, granite, diorite porphyry monzodiorite. MMEs gabbroic tonalite compositio...

most skarn deposits are directly related to magmatic activity, and there is a systematic correlation between composition of causative plutons and the metal contents of the related skarns. darreh zerreshk deposit is located in southwest of yazd. petrological and geochemical studies show that darreh zerreshk granitoid ranges in composition from granite through quartz monzodiorite and has subalkal...

the iranian plateau is characterized by diverse tectonic domains, including the continental collisions (e.g. the zagros and alborz mountains) and oceanic plate subduction (e.g. makransubduction zone). to derive a detailed image of the crust–mantle (moho) and lithosphere–asthenosphere (lab) boundaries in some tectonically units of the iranian plateau, we used a large number of s receiver functio...

The Miocene pyroxene andesite lava flows are exposed in southeastern edge of Urumieh Dokhtar Magmatic assemblage in Iran. The hypocrystalline andesite in parts contain conspicuous co-magmatic igneous enclaves which are dark grey and occur mostly as spherical and occasionally as ribbon shapes with some showing chilled margins. Petrographic study shows that the ribbon type enclaves have been form...

The Dehaj area, located in the southern part of the Urumieh-Dokhtar magmatic belt, is a well-endowed terrain hosting a number of world-class porphyry copper deposits. These deposits are all hosted in an acidic to intermediate volcano-plutonic sequence greatly affected by various types of the hydrothermal alterations, whether argillic, phyllic or propylitic. Although there are a handful of hithe...