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Petrogenesis of the Carboniferous Ghaleh-Dezh metagranite, Sanandaj–Sirjan zone, Iran: constraints from new zircon U–Pb and 40Ar/39Ar ages and Sr–Nd isotopes

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Nahid Shabanian Open the ORCID record for Nahid Shabanian [Opens in a new window] ,
Ali Reza Davoudian ,
Hossein Azizi ,
Yoshihiro Asahara ,
Franz Neubauer ,
Johan Genser ,
Yunpeng Dong  and
James K.W. Lee
Nahid Shabanian*
Affiliation:
Faculty of Natural Resources and Earth Sciences, Shahrekord University, Shahrekord, Iran
Ali Reza Davoudian
Affiliation:
Faculty of Natural Resources and Earth Sciences, Shahrekord University, Shahrekord, Iran
Hossein Azizi
Affiliation:
Department of Mining Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran
Yoshihiro Asahara
Affiliation:
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa, Nagoya, 464-8601, Japan
Franz Neubauer
Affiliation:
Department of Geography and Geology, Salzburg University, Salzburg, Austria
Johan Genser
Affiliation:
Department of Geography and Geology, Salzburg University, Salzburg, Austria
Yunpeng Dong
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Continental Dynamics, Department of Geology, Northwest University, Xi’an, 710069, China
James K.W. Lee
Affiliation:
Department of Geological Sciences, 114 Science Place, Campus Drive University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, S7N 5E2, Canada
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Author for correspondence: Nahid Shabanian, Emails: nahid.shabanian@gmail.com; shabanian.nahid@sku.ac.ir
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Abstract

The Ghaleh-Dezh metagranites in the northern Sanandaj–Sirjan Zone (SaSZ) in western Iran are found in a 0.5 km long by 0.3 km wide unit emplaced within the older Precambrian basement. New zircon U–Pb ages confirm that crystallization and emplacement of the protolith of the metagranites occurred at 312 ± 10 Ma and 298 ± 17 Ma in the Upper Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian) – Early Permian, which is consistent with the ages of recently discovered Palaeozoic granites in the northern SaSZ. The studied metagranitic body has been metamorphosed at lower greenschist facies and deformed in ductile–brittle regime due to subsequent reheating events during the Mesozoic. The rocks are metaluminous to slightly peraluminous granites with an A2-type affinity. Initial 87Sr/86Sr ratios and εNd(t) contents vary from 0.7037 to 0.7130 and −0.70 to 0.34, respectively. 143Nd/144Nd(i) values for the granitic rocks are fairly uniform at ∼0.5123. The geochemical and isotopic evidence indicates that these rocks were generated from a mantle magma with crustal contamination and fractional crystallization. Rb–Sr isochron and 40Ar/39Ar K-feldspar ages are 274 Ma and 60–70 Ma, respectively. The older event, c. 270 Ma, was likely related to the opening of Neotethys, whereas the younger ages likely relate to collisional events in the region during the closure of Neotethys.

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Carboniferous granitezircon U–Pb age40Ar/39Ar ageA2-type graniteextensional regimeSanandaj–Sirjan Zone
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Geological Magazine , Volume 157 , Issue 11 , November 2020 , pp. 1823 - 1852
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