The study area is located in northwest of Birjand, northern part of the Sistan suture zone in eastern Iran. There is well preserved outcrops of an ophiolite mélange in this area. This complex is composed of harzburgite, layered gabbro and spilitic basalt with flysch type rocks. Microprobe analyses of olivine, clinopyroxene, orthopyroxene and spinel in harzburgites show that olivine is forsterit...
