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Gabbroic–dioritic dykes from the Sanandaj–Sirjan Zone: windows on Jurassic and Eocene geodynamic processes in the Zagros Orogen, western Iran

View ORCID ProfileReza Deevsalar, Ryuichi Shinjo, View ORCID ProfileKuo-Lung Wang, Yeganehfar Hadi and Iain Neill
Journal of the Geological Society, 175, 915-933, 12 June 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2017-156
Reza Deevsalar
Department of Geology, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran 14115-175, Iran
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The Sanandaj–Sirjan Zone (SaSiZ) is a magmatic terrane within the Zagros Orogen, western Iran, marking the Tethyan suture zone between the Afro-Arabian Plate and the Central Iran Micro-Continent. Mafic–intermediate dyke swarms with Middle Jurassic (Group 1: hornblende gabbro and diorite) and Late Eocene (Group 2: hornblende–pyroxene gabbro) ages are recognized in the Malayer–Boroujerd Plutonic Complex of the northern SaSiZ. Group 1 dykes have elemental and isotopic signatures consistent with melting of a mantle source modified during Neo-Tethyan subduction. Some Group 1 magmas evolved to intermediate compositions through assimilation and fractional crystallization. Group 2 dykes have within-plate trace element geochemical signatures, modelled as deriving from low-degree melting of asthenospheric mantle without a subduction influence. Published models postulate either a Cretaceous–Eocene Neo-Tethyan flat-slab scenario or a Latest Cretaceous–Paleogene Neo-Tethyan break-off event beneath the SaSiZ. Such models do not reconcile with the Late Eocene presence of within-plate magmatism in westernmost Iran, very close to the Zagros Suture. We argue that a period of flat-slab subduction concluded with sub-parallel subduction of a Neo-Tethyan ridge to the trench. The resulting slab break-off event in the Late Eocene is responsible for generation of the distinct Mesopotamia and Zagros slabs in mantle tomography models. Break-off was followed by small-volume within-plate type magmatism before short-lived re-establishment of Tethyan subduction prior to the final Arabia–Eurasia collision.

Supplementary material: Field photographs, photomicrographs, additional geochemical plots, descriptions of analytical methods and tables of geochemical modelling parameters are available at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.4126196

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Gabbroic–dioritic dykes from the Sanandaj–Sirjan Zone: windows on Jurassic and Eocene geodynamic processes in the Zagros Orogen, western Iran

Reza Deevsalar, Ryuichi Shinjo, Kuo-Lung Wang, Yeganehfar Hadi and Iain Neill
Journal of the Geological Society, 175, 915-933, 12 June 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2017-156
Reza Deevsalar
Department of Geology, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran 14115-175, Iran
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Journal of the Geological Society, 175, 915-933, 12 June 2018, https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2017-156
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