Acantholimon albocalycinum is described from SE Iran. It is from the sect. Glumaria and is characterized by having a white calyx. The new species is related to A. subulatum, that it is compared with. A. kermanense is described from Kerman province, Iran. It is from the sect. Acantholimon and seems to be related to A. chrysostegium, A. hyalinum and A. mirtadzadinii and is compared with them. A. sirchense is described from SE Iran. The new species is from the sect. Glumaria and seems to be again related to A. subulatum.

Archaeologically, eastern Iran is poorly known compared to the other regions of Iranian Plateau. Hence, there are many unanswered questions regarding the prehistoric chronological table of this region. The present knowledge of prehistoric cultures and chronology of Southeastern Iran is mostly through based on the 1960s archaeological excavations. In particular, the common chronology of the Chalcolithic period in SE Iran is exclusively based on the dates from old excavations at two sites of Tepe Yahya in Soghun valley and Tal-I Iblis in Bardsir plain. Due to the exciting discovery of major Bronze Age urban centers in southeastern Iran, such as Shahr-e Sokhte, Shahdad and Konar Sandal (Jiroft), most scholarly attention has been given to the 3rd millennium BC. As a result, the cultures preceding and posterior the Bronze Age have been often neglected. Recent project of Dasht-e Lut resulted in new information on the chronology of the prehistory of SE Iran. This paper is intended to expose 10 radiocarbon data from recent excavations at two prehistoric sites on the west of Lut desert, Shahdad area in Kerman province. Recent excavations at Tepe Dehno and Tepe East Dehno in Shahdad plain have revealed levels dating back a period from the early 5th to early 3rd millennium BCE based on 14C absolute dates. Tepe Dehno is a large site is located about one kilometer from the east of the Bronze Age urban site of Shahdad. It is a shallow large mound, surrounded by several small solitaire mounds. It is founded on the top of a natural hill. The site is approximately 20 hectares in extent and rises 8 m above the level of the surrounding land. In term of occupational sequence, excavation at Tepe Dehno established three main occupation periods so far which they are labeled from the oldest to the youngest Dehno I-III. These periods were distinguished based on ceramic evidence and absolute dates. Dehno I period as the earliest occupation corresponds to late fifth millennium BC (4250-4000 B.C) was identified in trench IV. The second period was documented through excavations at trenches I & II; Dehno II period is related to mid to late fourth millennium BC (3700-3300 BC), known as Aliabad (Iblis IV) culture. Dehno III period (3200-2900/2800 BC) is a hitherto unknown period that came from 2 charcoal samples from Trench III. Tepe East Dehno is a prehistoric site located 700m east of the site of Tepe Dehno. Two radiocarbon dates from this trench indicate that the occupation of Tepe East Dehno falls into the first half of the fifth millennium. In this paper, based on both new absolute dates and comparative relative chronology, I attempted to appraise critically the chronology of the Chalcolithic period of SE Iran and finally an updated chronological table of the period was presented. A total of 10 radiocarbon charcoal samples from the mentioned excavated sites were analyzed using Accelerator Mass Spectrometer (AMS) method. Radiocarbon determinations from the excavated sites have provided this opportunity to revise the prehistoric chronology of South-East Iran. Evidence illustrated that the old chronology of Southeastern Iran needs a principal revision.

Scrophularia kermanica and Jurinea mobayenii are new species from SE Iran, Kerman Province. J. mobayenii, is compared with its close relatives, i. e. J. meda and J. sharifiana. Scrophularia kermanica is characterized from the other species by the following characters: leaves divided, capsule conical with uneven surface, flowers without staminode, stamens long.

Napag, one of the most famous and fascinating mud volcanoes of Iran, is located in the west of Chabahar port and 17 Km southwest of Kahir village in SE Iran. Although the main features of this mud volcano have formerly been studied by several investigators, one of its interesting phenomena which is of high diversity in the Micromorphology of its surface flows, has not been studied yet. So, in this paper, after a brief introduction of the Napag, first the outpouring mud is being examined from hydro-chemical and mineralogical viewpoints and, afterwards, seven types of Micromorphologies identified upon its flows are explained with images. Also, the mode of formation, as well as spatial and temporal situation of the morphologies are discussed. In the end, the paper will deal with their formation and evolution according of the basic principles of geomorphology.

Astragalus baftensis Ranjbar & Maassoumi (Fabaceae) is described and illustrated as a new from SE Iran. It belongs to Astragalus sect. Pendulina. The hitherto known species of this section are all confined to the Turkestanian floristic and Western Himalayan provinces of the Irano-Turanian region. Thus, A. baftensis constitutes an interesting range extension of this section into the Kerman province. The affinities and differences with the closest species are presented based on morphology, ecology and chorology. The conservation status of the new species is evaluated as vulnerable (VU) according to IUCN criteria.

The purpose of this study is to identify the enriched zones of Cu, Mo and Re in Nowchun Mo-Cu porphyry deposit (SE Iran) based on subsurface data and using of concentration–volume (C–V) fractal model. The C-V model illustrates four and five geochemical zones based on Mo and Cu distributions respectively and there are three geochemical populations for Re. The main mineralization for Mo, Cu and Re commence from251 ppm, 0.2% and 2238 ppb respectively, based on the C-V fractal modelling. However, elemental enriched zones contain Mo ≥ 501 ppm, Cu ≥ 0.4% and Re ≥ 4466 ppb. Based on a correlation between results derived via the C-V and geological models, the supergene enrichment zone with Cu≥ 0.4% occurs in very small area of NE part of the Nowchun deposit within chalcocite accumulation. The enriched zones for Mo and Re derived via the C-V model are located in the NE, central and SW parts of the deposit. Mo and Re enriched zones correlate with molybdenite in the deposit.

"Context" has been a major focus of archaeological theoretical studies since the early days of processualism or “New Archaeology”. In both processual and post-processual archaeology, context is more than just a space in which material data can be identified. Instead, it is a set of spatial, chronological, and socio-cultural terms set by the archaeologist through which (and through whom) material culture obtains meaning and function.
In theoretical treatises, context has been divided into two types: dynamic or static. According to an ethno-archaeological research in Bam disaster context (SE Iran) and a pilot area in Pakistani Jamu and Kashmir, a new kind of context is introduced in this article which can be located in the spectrum between dynamic and static. It can be hypothesized that this new kind of context (Disaster context) is not particular and can be observed in sites which have passed the process of becoming an ancient site.

The Urumieh-Dokhtar Magmatic Belt (UDMB) is the host of many Iranian Cu porphyry deposits. The southern part of this belt, in the Jebal-Barez area, has been less investigated due to the mountainous and rough topography as well as some security confrontations. Porphyry deposits are associated with hydrothermal alteration zones, which can be mapped using the remote sensing data such as Advanced Space borne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER). The aim of this study was to identify and detect the alteration zones associated with porphyry systems using ASTER data in Jebal-Barez area, SE Iran. For this reason, seven scenes of ASTER level-1B data which cover the Jebal-Barez area, were pre-processed and then processed by band ratio, false color composite and Spectral Angle Mapper (SAM) methods. The result indicated the presence of extensive phyllic and argillic alteration zones. The argillic alteration is surrounded by border zones of propylitic alteration. Also, a massive granitoid intrusion in NW of the studied area was detected by SAM method and the color composite of 4, 6, and 8 bands of ASTER as a completely altered area (SF area) which strongly needs more detailed exploration and field inspections.

Identification of the vertical and horizontal distributions for elemental grades is of an important sign in different mineral exploration stages. The main aim of this work is to determine the vertical distribution directional properties of Cu values in the Milloieh Cu porphyry deposit, Kerman (SE Iran) using the power-law frequency fractal model. This work is carried out based on four mineralized boreholes. The Cu grade vertical distribution in mineralized boreholes indicates a positively skewed distribution in the former and multi-modal distribution in the latter types. The power-law frequency analysis in nature represents that the Cu values in four mineralized boreholes are bifractal. The two sections of these graphs outline a break point of about 0.5-1% for Cu values and fractal dimension range of 1.70-4.97 in the mineralized boreholes.

The aim of this study was to separate the different mineralized zones consisting of supergene enrichment and hypogene zones in Milloieh porphyry Cu deposit (SE Iran) based on subsurface data and using the Staged Factor Analysis (SFA) and Concentration-Number (C-N) fractal modelling. Results obtained by SFA indicate that Cu and Mo were situated in a factor as F2-2 which was modelled by the C-N fractal method for separation of the mineralized zones. The supergene enrichment zone derived via the SFA and C-N fractal analysis contains 0.86% for Cu and 5.3 ppm for Mo. Moreover, the hypogene zone obtained by this modelling has Cu and Mo average values of 0.59% and 1.88 ppm, respectively. These mineralized zones were correlated with mineralographical data obtained by the polished section microscopic studies which indicate that the obtained zones based on the SFA and C-N fractal model are consistent with the geological and mineralization data.