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IUGG XXIV General Assembly July 2-13, 2007 Perugia, Italy<br />

(S) - <strong>IASPEI</strong> - International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's<br />

Interior<br />

JSS001 Poster presentation 1727<br />

Halite fluid inclusion geochemistry of evaporite deposits in central iran<br />

Mrs. Zeinab Shariatinia<br />

GEOLOGY-SEDIMENTOLOGY SCHOOL of Geology-University of TehranTehran14155 <strong>IASPEI</strong><br />

Cendon Dioni I, Pueyo Juan Jose, Rahimpour- Bonab Hussain, Hezarhani Ardeshir<br />

The chemical analyses of major ions in primary halite fluid inclusions is widely used for the<br />

determination and characterization of brine chemistry and its evolution in ancient evaporite basins<br />

through the Phanerozoic (eg. AYORA et al., 2001; BRENNAN and LOWENSTEIN, 2002; HORITA et al.,<br />

2002; KOVALEVICH et al., 2002). The purpose of this study is to show the major ion compositional<br />

evolution and halite crystallization pathway in the Miocene, M1 member of the Upper Red Fm. (N, Great<br />

Kavir Basin, Iran). We show how the Rift setting of the Great Kavir Basin, exerted the main control on<br />

the modification of seawater major ion chemistry. Influx of Ca-Cl2 brines modified the earlier<br />

evaporated seawater into Ca- Mg- Na- Cl brines. In this case, the Ca2+ concentration of the evolving<br />

brine exceeded overall concentrations of SO42-, HCO3-, and CO32- ions, which is expressed as<br />

mCa2+>∑(mSO42- + mHCO3- + mCO32-). From this modified brine MgSO4-poor potash salts (mainly<br />

halite, sylvite and carnallite) precipitated. The study of major ion variation for evaporite deposits in the<br />

mentioned area reveals that the evaporation path in the Great Kavir Basin was not the same as presentday<br />

seawater. The geochemical diagrams (e.g. Mg vs. SO4 and K) show that major ions followed<br />

different evolution trends. Seemingly, an externally Ca-Cl2 influx would have overridden the chemical<br />

signature of evaporated seawater within Great Kavir Basin. As a result, sylvite instead of K-Mg-sulfates<br />

precipitated, similar to that observed in other rift settings such as the Danakil Depression (Ethiopia) in<br />

Quaternary evaporates where secular seawater compositional changes can not justified the observed<br />

lithologies. Ayora C., Cendn D. I., Taberner C., and Pueyo J. J. (2001) Brine-mineral reactions in<br />

evaporite basins: Implications for the composition of ancient oceans. Geology 29(3), 251-254. Brennan<br />

S. T. and Lowenstein T. K. (2002) The major-ion composition of Silurian seawater. Geochimica et<br />

Cosmochimica Acta 66(15), 2683-2700. Horita J., Zimmermann H., and Holland H. D. (2002) Chemical<br />

evolution of seawater during the Phanerozoic: Impliations from the record of marine evaporites.<br />

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 66(21), 3733-3756. Kovalevich V. M., Peryt T. M., Beer W., Geluk M.,<br />

and Halas S. (2002) Geochemistry of Early Triassic seawater as indicated by study of Rt halite in the<br />

Netherlands, Germany and Poland. Chemical Geology 182, 549-563.<br />

Keywords: fluidinclusion, evaporite, centraliran

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