chaldoran area in nw of iran has mesozoic oceanic crust basement. the studied rocks of this region can be divided into three groups: ophiolitic gabbros and pillow lavas, ophiolitic volcanoclastics and eocene lava flows. ophiolitic mafic rocks show continental volcanic arc natures and eocene lava flow shows oib-like nature. during the mesozoic,the chaldoran region was situated in the active cont...

The mainly deep-submarine Ontong Java Plateau (OJP) is the result of largest outpouring lava in geologic record. Volcanic events this magnitude can have dramatic environmental impacts due to volatile emissions. We report new S measurements naturally glassy, olivine-hosted melt inclusions and pillow basalt glasses from OJP. combined these data with previous OJP quantify degassing a suite glasses...

The exposure of 1300 meters of upper oceanic crust at the Blanc0 Fracture Zone allows near-bottom gravity measurements to determine the in situ density of the seafloor as a function of depth. Gravity measurements along the north wall of the Blanc0 Depression indicate an outcrop density of 2530 * Kg/m3 for the upper 800 meters of crust and a calculated porosity of 23%. The lower 500 meters of cr...

three intrusive granitoid bodies from northwest saveh, central iran, are embedded in volcanic sedimentary rocks of the eocene,forming isolated small outcrops: khalkhab quartz monzodioritic units (sio2: ~52-57 wt %) to the northwest, neshveh granodioriticunits (sio2: ~62-71 wt %) to the northeast, and selijerd granodioritic units (sio2: ~63-69 wt %) to the southeast. the khalkhab unit iscomposed...

•80 data have been obtained on 7 of the 17 intrusive centers of diorite and granodiorite (Miocene?) that lie along a N-S belt about 50 km west of the High Cascades. Whole-rock $ values (per mil relative to SMOW) in the intrusive stocks are: -[-2.3 to -t-4.9 (South Umpqua River), -0.7 to -t-3.8 (Bohemia mining district), -t-4.3 to -t-4.6 (Vida stock), -0.2 to -t-5.5 (Nimrod stock), --1.7 to -}-0...

Plutonic rocks such as gabbros provide information on magmatic and tectonic processes which occur beneath a mid-ocean rift axis well the formation of oceanic crust. Igneous rocks, reported from Red Sea Rift valley, have been limited to extrusive basalts so far. The only deeper crustal found in area are flanks interpreted late-stage continental magmatism. Here, we present geochemistry first reco...