Post-Eocene volcanics of the Abazar district, Qazvin, Iran: Mineralogical and geochemical evidence for a complex magmatic evolution

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• 作者：A. Asiabanha^a ; ^{asiabanha@ikiu.ac.ir} ; J.M. Bardintzeff^b ; ^c ; ^{jacques-marie.bardintzeff@u-psud.fr} ; A. Kananian^d ; ^{kananian@khayam.ut.ac.ir} ; G. Rahimi^d ; ^{ra_gelareh@yahoo.com}
• 关键词：Alborz ; Iran ; Eruptive style ; Magma mingling ; Continental arc
• 刊名：Journal of Asian Earth Sciences
• 出版年：2012
• 出版时间：2 February 2012
• 年：2012
• 卷：45
• 期：Complete
• 页码：79-94
• 全文大小：2643 K

文摘

The style of volcanism of post-Eocene volcanism in the Alborz zone of northern Iran is different to that of Eocene volcanism (Karaj Formation). Indeed, the volcanic succession of the Abazar district, located in a narrow volcanic strip within the Alborz magmatic assemblage, is characterized by distinct mineralogical and chemical compositions linked to a complex magmatic evolution. The succession was produced by explosive eruptions followed by effusive eruptions. Two main volcanic events are recognized: (1) a thin rhyolitic ignimbritic sheet underlain by a thicker lithic breccia, and (2) lava flows including shoshonite, latite, and andesite that overlie the first event across a reddish soil horizon.

Plagioclase in shoshonite (An_48-92) shows normal zoning, whereas plagioclase in latite and andesite (An_48-75) has a similar composition but shows reverse and oscillatory zoning. QUILF temperature calculations for shoshonites and andesites yield temperatures of 1035 ¡ãC and 1029 ¡ãC, respectively. The geothermometers proposed by and yield temperatures of 960 ¡ãC and 944 ¡ãC for latitic lava, respectively.

The samples of volcanic rock show a typical geochemical signature of the continental arc regime, but the andesites clearly differ from the shoshonites, the latites and the rhyolites. The mineralogical and chemical characteristics of these rocks are explained by the following petrogenesis: (1) intrusion of a hot, mantle-depth mafic (shoshonitic) magma, which differentiated in the magma chamber to produce a latitic and then a rhyolitic liquid; (2) rhyolitic ignimbritic eruptions from the top of the magma chamber, following by shoshonitic and then latitic extrusions; (3) magma mingling between the latitic and andesitic magmas, as indicated by the occurrence of andesite clasts within the latite; and (4) andesitic effusions.

The youngest volcanic events in the Alborz zone show a close chemical relationship with continental arc rocks, indicating that they formed in a continental collision setting.