Zircon U-Pb Ages and Magmatic History of the Kashan Plutons in the Central Urumieh-Dokhtar Magmatic Arc, Iran: Evidence for Neotethyan Subduction during Paleogene-Neogene

Tayebeh Khaksar; Nematollah Rashidnejad-Omran; Fukun Chen; Shu-Guang Song; Shuang-Qing Li; Majid Ghaderi

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Tayebeh Khaksar, Nematollah Rashidnejad-Omran, Fukun Chen, Shu-Guang Song, Shuang-Qing Li, Majid Ghaderi. Zircon U-Pb Ages and Magmatic History of the Kashan Plutons in the Central Urumieh-Dokhtar Magmatic Arc, Iran: Evidence for Neotethyan Subduction during Paleogene-Neogene. Journal of Earth Science, 2020, 31(1): 53-68. doi: 10.1007/s12583-020-1258-1

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Tayebeh Khaksar, Nematollah Rashidnejad-Omran, Fukun Chen, Shu-Guang Song, Shuang-Qing Li, Majid Ghaderi. Zircon U-Pb Ages and Magmatic History of the Kashan Plutons in the Central Urumieh-Dokhtar Magmatic Arc, Iran: Evidence for Neotethyan Subduction during Paleogene-Neogene. Journal of Earth Science, 2020, 31(1): 53-68. doi: 10.1007/s12583-020-1258-1

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Tayebeh Khaksar, Nematollah Rashidnejad-Omran, Fukun Chen, Shu-Guang Song, Shuang-Qing Li, Majid Ghaderi. Zircon U-Pb Ages and Magmatic History of the Kashan Plutons in the Central Urumieh-Dokhtar Magmatic Arc, Iran: Evidence for Neotethyan Subduction during Paleogene-Neogene. Journal of Earth Science, 2020, 31(1): 53-68. doi: 10.1007/s12583-020-1258-1

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Zircon U-Pb Ages and Magmatic History of the Kashan Plutons in the Central Urumieh-Dokhtar Magmatic Arc, Iran: Evidence for Neotethyan Subduction during Paleogene-Neogene

doi: 10.1007/s12583-020-1258-1

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Department of Geology, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran 14115-175, Iran
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School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
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School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

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Corresponding author: Nematollah Rashidnejad-Omran
Received Date: 18 Mar 2019
Accepted Date: 07 Sep 2019
Publish Date: 01 Feb 2020

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The Kashan plutons are situated in the central part of Urumieh-Dokhtar magmatic arc recording subduction-related magmatism within the Alpine-Himalayan orogeny in Iran. These rocks consist of different calc-alkaline plutonic rocks including gabbro,gabbroic diorite,microdiorite,monzodiorite,tonalite,granodiorite,and granite. The plutons were emplaced into the Jurassic sedimentary units (Shemshak Formation) and the Eocene calc-alkaline volcanic and pyroclastic rocks. New U-Pb zircon ages show that the Kashan plutons formed during two main periods at 35.20±0.71 Ma in the Late Eocene (Priabonian) and at 18.90±0.84,19.26±0.83,19.30±1.2,and 17.3±1.8 Ma in the Early Miocene (Burdigalian). The reported events in the Kashan plutons imply the final phases of subduction-related magmatism before the collision which happened between the Arabian and Iranian plates in the Middle Miocene. The plutonic activity in the Kashan region occurred during the transition from Eocene subduction-related setting to Middle Miocene collisional setting.
- zircon U-Pb dating,
- plutonic episodes,
- Kashan,
- Urumieh-Dokhtar magmatic arc,
- Iran

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