Geochemistry and petrogenesis of an adakitic quartz-monzonitic porphyry stock and related cross-cutting dike suites, Kighal, northwest Iran

A late Oligocene–early Miocene quartz-monzonitic porphyry stock intrudes upper Eocene andesitic-latitic lava flows, producing Cu–Mo mineralization and hydrothermal alteration zones in the Kighal area, northwest Iran. Numerous cross-cutting dikes of various compositions, ranging from quartz-diorite to granodiorite and microdiorite, branch off from three later-stage barren sub-volcanic bodies, and intrude the porphyry stock. Both the stock and comagmatic dikes display I-type, magnesian, calc-alkaline to high-K calc-alkaline signatures and metaluminous to peraluminous geochemical characters, being emplaced within an active continental margin setting. Analysed samples display the typical geochemical characteristics of adakites. Moreover, rare earth elements exhibit a fractionated pattern with low heavy rare earth element concentrations. The general trend in an La/Yb–Yb diagram shows that partial melting, rather than fractional crystallization, was the dominant process of magma generation. Based on the compositional classification of modern adakites, the studied rocks are of high-SiO2 adakite type. They were generated through low degrees of high-pressure partial melting of subducted rutile- and amphibole-bearing eclogitic Neo-Tethyan oceanic slab. The descending slab underwent break-off, leaving behind a residue rich in garnet + amphibole ± rutile, lacking significant plagioclase. Interaction of the slab-derived magma with the mantle-wedge peridotite is also evident.