Salafchegan-Khorhe volcanic rocks are exposed within Urumieh-Dokhtar magmatic belt. Different kinds of volcanic and subvolcanic rocks of calc-alkaline to alkaline character have been reported throughout this magmatic belt. ...

The granites south of Mashhad are located in the north-east of Iran and occur in the suture zone between the Binalud and Kopeh Dagh areas. These S-type granites are peraluminous with an Upper Triassic Age and include ...

This book review presents the merits and drawbacks of Engineering Geology for Underground Works edited by Gattinoni et al. and published by Springer in 2014. This book summarizes most of the problems an ...

Asmari Formation was deposited in the foreland Zagros Basin (southwest Iran). In this research, biostratigraphy related to the Asmari Formation in North of Khorram Abad, Robat Namaki section, is discussed. In the studied ...

The magnesite veins are located in the Beni Bousera massif (internal Rif, Morocco), especially in Tafidest region about 103 km SW of the Tetouan city. They are hosted by perridotite and serpentinite formations.  The aim ...

A doublet of earthquakes with magnitudes of 6.5 and 6.2 in MW scale (Global CMT) on 2010 December 20 and 2011 January 27 respectively struck the area that lies between the Nehbandan and Jiroft fault systems, ...

The Sofeh Mountain in the south of Isfahan (Iran) has a development of shafts (vertical cave). Simorgh cave with a depth of 42 m and a length of 52 m has developed along significant fault structures. Structural analysis ...