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an_NW_Iran_Geotectonic_Setting_Implication/figures?lo=1
Fig. 1.A: The location of Kurdistan ophiolitic complex in the main ophiolite belts along the Tethyan suture [24]
B: A close up of the rectangle in A, shows NW of Iran displaying the main geological formations, (Modified after
[25]. (HZ: High Zagros zone (Zagros Folded Thrust Belt [26]); S-S: Sanandaj-Sirjan zone; CA: Central Iran zone;
PT: Paratethys basin; KM: Kermanshah ophiolite; KH: Khoy ophiolite and Kurdistan ophiolite complex (B-S:
Bane-Sardasht; SW: Sawlava; KA: Kamiaran; Qa: Qalandar sepentinite; Pa: Pauza ultramafic rocks; Ma: Mawat;
Pe: Penjwin). The study area is shown by a quadrangle.
Table 1 . A summary of mineralogy and petrography of ultramafic rocks in Sawlava ophiolites. (Ol: Olivine;
Cpx: Clinopyroxene; Chr-Spl: Chromian-Spinel; Mag: Magnetite; Ctl: Chrysotile; Atg: Antigorite; Srp:
Serpentine; Cal:

Fig. 2. Geological map of the

Kurdistan ophiolite, modified after
[27].
Fig. 5a. The plot of trivalent cations of Cr-spinel in chromitite, dunite and wehrlite from
Sawlava ophiolite. Mantle chromitite field after [5] and stratiform chromitite field after [35].
b. A ternary Al-Cr-Fe 3+ plot [32] for Sawlava Crspinels rim and core compositions in the
chromitite and dunite. Chromitite and dunite fall between deep and shallow mantle
source.
Fig. 6. The position of Sawlava Cr-spinel crystals in Cr# versus Al 2 O 3 diagram [9]. Cr-
spinel grains from chromitite and
Fig. 7. Cr# in spinel
versus Mg# in olivine
from peridotites of
Sawlava ophiolite. Fields
for Cr-spinels occurring
in abyssal (and ocean
ridge), oceanic SSZ and
passive margin
peridotites are from [2
and 41]. OSMA field and
fractionation line of
boninites are from [3,
39].
Fig. 8. Al 2 O 3 versus Cr 2 O 3 contents in the chromitites are used to determine their origin and type. Spinel fields are
from [42, 43 and 44] and chromite types are from [45]. Chromitite and wherlite Cr-spinels plotted in podiform field
but dunites samples fall in arc cumulate spinel. Also all samples plot in mantle array field.
Fig. 12 The plot of Mg/(Mg+Fe
2+ ) versus Cr/(Cr+Al) ratios of
Cr-spinels in dunite, wehrlite
and chromitites from Sawlava.
Compositional ranges for Cr-
spinels in chromitites from the
upper mantle and the Moho
transition zone (MTZ) from the
Oman ophiolite [7 and 46] are
shown for comparison. The
ranges for ordinary
harzburgites and highly
depleted harzburgites from the
Oman ophiolite are after [52
and 59], respectively. The Cr#
from Sawlava chromitite is
higher than that of all Cr-spinel
in Oman ophiolite. The
Sawlava dunite is almost
transitional between MTZ and
high and low harzburgite from
the Oman ophiolite but its
trend is similar to the low Cr#
Oman harzburgite. Sawlava
wehrlites also plot between
MTZ and low Cr# harzburgite.
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