The Early Jurassic (≈180 Ma) Gowd-e-Howz (Siah-Kuh) granitoid stock is located in the southern part of the Sanandaj-Sirjan metamorphic belt, southeast of Iran in Kerman Province. This granitoid stock is intruded into the Upper Paleozoic metamorphic and Triassic igneous-sedimentary rocks and covered by Jurassic rock units and Lower Cretaceous limestones. The main part of the stock is granodiorite with medium- to coarse-grained anhedral granular texture and mineral assemblage of amphibole, biotite, plagioclase, alkali feldspar, and quartz. Biotite, as one of the main ferromagnesian minerals of this body, has a primary igneous origin and iron rich composition. The different magmatic series and tectonic discrimination diagrams indicate that the magma was of subduction zone-related I-type calc-alkaline series, crystallized under medium to high oxygen fugacity, and equilibrated at temperatures and pressures of 589 to 875 °C and 0.45 to 2.27 kbar, respectively, during magma emplacement in the crust.
Type of Study:
Original Research |
Subject:
Petrology Received: 2024/02/17 | Accepted: 2024/02/23 | Published: 2024/02/29