Microstructural Investigation of Southern Alvand Batholith Using Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility (AMS)

The studied locality covers an area of 120 km2, located at south and southwest of the Hamedan city. The porphyritic granite is the dominant volume of this intrusive body. This granitoid is divided into the granites (monzogranites, syenogranites and alkali feldspar granites) and granodiorites from petrographic point of view. The major part of the study area have magmatic-sub-magmatic fabric and few of the samples show high temperature solid state deformation with presence of chess-board quartz, bending and kink band of biotite and mineral size decreasing from microstructural point of view. The total numbers of 450 oriented coresamples were collected from 107 stations, to study the anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility. The total average susceptibility for all samples were 114-314 μSI and the mean susceptibility (Km) of granodiorites was 457.5 μSI, and it ranges from 282-633 μSI, which is higher in compare to granites. This difference is due to the presence of magnetite grains in granodiorites, which has been proved by heavy mineral analysis. The magnetite comprises 0.01-0.025 % of total volume in these rocks. The Km normally varies from 14-514 μSI and indicates the paramagnetic type of granites. The P values vary from 0.72-7.4 %. The T values in most of the samples is positive (T>0) and show planer nature of most of the intrusive body. The high degree of dipping of magnetic foliation and lineation at the central part of the intrusive body, which decreases with increasing distance from center of the intrusive body, may indicate the location of feeding. This characterization can be seen at two other places addition to the center. On the basis of magnetic parameter and other factors such as dominant transpression tectonic regime in this area, one can say that the ascending magma was due existingof stretching environment with NW-SE trend, and this can be proved by direction of magnetic lineations at the same direction. The differences in the direction of NE-SW, which some of the studied sites show, may be due to rotation of magnetic body during injection and emplacement in response to prevailing tectonic forces in studied area and viscosity of magma.