The present study investigates the shape preferred orientation (SPO) and crystal preferred orientation (CPO) of quartz crystals using electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) in andalusite-cordierite schist from the Ythan Valley, Aberdeenshire, in the Scottish Dalradian block. Quartz crystals in the matrix and andalusite pophyroblasts have inequant to slightly equant shapes. Quartz crystals show...

The granitic gneisses of Abadchi village is located in the North of Zayandeh-Rud dam, where the area is a part of Sanandaj-Sirjan Zone. The mineralogical composition of the rocks is composed of quartz, plagioclase, K-feldspar, biotite, amphibole, muscovite, zircon, titanite and allanite. Quartz crystals, as the most abundant mineral constituents of these rocks, display the different conditions ...

The Miocene Qohrud granitoid intrusion consists of granite, granodiorite and tonalite and is located in the Urmia-Dokhtar magmatic belt. Intrusion of magmatic rocks into the various sedimentary rocks including shale, sandstone, limestone and marl, with Jurassic to Eocene age, has caused contact metamorphism of the surrounded rocks. Varity of hornfelses and skarns are formed in this regards. Hyd...

The Byarjomand Batholith with Pre-cambrian age in the north Semnan, north-central Iran, consists of granite, granodiorite, quartz monzodiorite and gabbrodiorite. These rocks have granular texture and occasionally granophyric, pertite and poicelitic textures. Crystal size distribution (CSD) studies can reveal magmatic processes. In order to determine volometric proportion, growth time and nuclea...

South Kiki granitoid intrusion is located north of Semnan Province, about 5 km south of the village of Kiki. This pluton emplaced wholly within the Jurassic sandstones with typical contact metamorphic aureole around their periphery. The plutonic rocks suffered high-temperature deformation with well-developed S-C fabrics along shear zones marginal to the intrusion. The pluton was subjected to...

The Qohrud granitoid is a part of the Urmia-Dokhtar magmatic assemblage. The main rock types are Miocene granite and tonalite. The hydrothermal activities were effective due to intrusion. Hydrothermal activities were more intense in the southern part of the pluton. This has produced relatively large automorph quartz crystals. The alteration of the granitoid wall rocks was accompanied with alter...