Petrography, geochemistry and petrogenesis of high-silica Adakitic rocks from Bayram Abad area in the northwest Neyshabour (Northeast of Iran)

The volcanic rocks of Bayram Abad area, located 12 km northwest of Neyshabour, are dominated by the Paleogene units composing of dacite and andesite rocks. The essential minerals of the rocks under study are plagioclase and amphibole with predominant textures including porphyry, sieve, trachytic and glomeroporphyritic. Composionally, they are acidic to intermediate and calc-alkaline affinity. The absence of negative Eu anomaly, low HREE values (i.e. Yb=0.92-1.11 ppm, Y=8.7-11.4 ppm), high Sr values (293-1029 ppm), high Sr/Y (29.08-90.26), high SiO2 content (59.96-65.89 wt%) and low K2O/Na2O (0.27-1.13) are remarkable geochemical criteria of the rocks studied. Moreover, Both Chondrite-normalized rare earth element (REE) patterns enriched in LREE with respect to HREE and normalized to primitive mantle spider diagram indicate that these rocks are adakitic in nature belonging to group of silica-rich adakites (HSA) The negative anomalies in HFSE (i.e. Nb, P, Ti) and high La/Yb (over 12) point to the characteristics of magmas associated with the continental active margin. It is possible that the parent magma generated by the melting of the eclogite or amohibolite garnet rocks resulting from the metamorphism of the Sabzevar Neotethys subducted oceanic slab underneath the southern edge of the eastern Alborz zone during the Miocene.