Geochemistry mineral chemistry, and tectonic setting of the metabasites in the SE of Boroujerd, Sanandaj–Sirjan zone

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1 Department of geology, faculty of science,s, lorestan university. Khorramabad, Iran

2 Department of Geology, Faculty of Sciences, Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Iran

3 Department of geology, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

The late Triassic metabasites in the southeast of Borujerd area in the middle part of Sanandaj Sirjan zone (SaSZ) are associated with marble and locally intersected by mafic dykes. Metabasites rocks are metamorphosed in the lower green schist facies and are mainly composed of plagioclase and amphibole. However, they locally preserve ophitic and porphyritic igneous textures. The electronmicroprope analysis showed that feldspars are albite, oligoclase and anorthoclase. Also, according to this analysis, type of amphiboles is calcic and includes actinolite, actinolite-hornblend, magnesiohornblend and tschermakit-hornblend to tschermakit. According to geochemical studies, these rocks have alkaline magmas characteristics. The chondrite normalized REE patterns show enrichment in LREE and the Primitive-Mantle normalized multi-element patterns show uniformly enriched LREE, Th, Nb, Ta. These characteristics are similar to those of basalts derived from OIB-like mantle sources. Trace-element ratios, including Ce/Nb (1.22– 2.20), Hf/Nb (0.08–0.2), Zr/Nb (3.63–6) and high TiO2/Yb and Nb/Yb ratios, indicate that these magmas were derived from a deep OIB reservoir, i.e. an enriched asthenospheric mantle source. These rocks underwent slight crustal contamination. These geochemical characteristics of these late Triassic metabasites suggests that they formed in an intra-continental rifting regime.

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