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The young basalts in East Azerbaijan are placed in West Alborz – Azerbaijan zone. Volcanic activities have extended from the Pliocene to the Quaternary by eruption from fracture systems and faults. Rocks under study are olivine-basalt and trachybasalts. The main minerals are olivine, pyroxene, plagioclase set in glassy or microcrystalline matrix and olivine are present as phenocryst. The textures in the studied rocks are mainly hyaloporphyric, hyalomicrolitic and porphyritic. Trace elements and rare earth elements on spider diagrams have high LREE/HREE ratio. Rare earth elements on diagram display negative slope indicating alkaline nature for the basalts under study. As it may be observed, on tectonic diagrams, the Marand basalts are placed on Island Arc basalt (IAB) field, whereas the Ahar, Heris, Kalaibar and Miyaneh basalts are classified as Ocean Island Basalts (OIB) and finally the basalts of Sohrol area are plotted on continental rift Basalt (CRB) field. The Marand and Sohrol basalts were likely originated from lithospheric - astenospheric mantle with 2 to 5 % partial melting whereas, the Ahar, Heris and Kalaibar basalts having same source experienced 1-2% partial melting rate and the Miyaneh basalts possibly produced from lithospheric mantle with 10-20% partial melting rate pointing to shallow depth of mantle and the higher rate of melting. Based on tectonic setting diagrams, all the rocks studied are plotted in post collisional environments.

The study area is located about 30 km northwest of Maragheh in East Azerbaijan. The lamprophyric dyke intruded the Shemshak sedimentary rocks. Based on stratigraphic evidences, the age of dyke is probably Early Cimmerian. The principal minerals of the lamprophyric dyke consist of plagioclase (andesine -oligoclase), biotite (eastonite), phlogopite, olivine and clinopyroxene (diopside) with ocellar texture. The average chemical composition of clinopyroxene and plagioclase is En42.3, Wo46, Fs11.7 and Ab51.74, An30.92, Or17.34 respectively. According to the mineralogical and geochemical evidences, the studied lamprophyre samples are kersantite belonging to calc-alkaline lamprophyre.The plotted spider diagrams for the rock samples indicate the light rare-earth elements (LREE) and incompatible elements enrichment compared to heavy rare earth elements (HREE). The parent magma is probably generated from garnet lherzolite mantle with low rate partial melting. The studied lamprophyre dyke formed in intraplate and post collision environment which translocated possibly in basins and ruptures in related with fault systems.