Author(s)

Mohammad-Hasan Bazoobandi¹, Mohammad-Ali Arian^1*, Mohammad-Hashem Emami², Gholam-Reza Tajbakhsh³, Abdollah Yazdi⁴

¹Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, North Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
²Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, Islamshahr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
³Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran.
⁴Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, Kahnooj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kerman, Iran.

Dikes can be divided into sheeted, feeder, cone and swarm types based on the origin and the formation. A group of dikes that are formed in dense in a relatively broad zone influenced by a particular tectonic regime are referred to as swarm dikes. Swarm dikes have numerous applications such as locating mantle plume centers, determining areas of longstanding tensions and detection of deformation networks. The purpose of this article is classified swarm dikes of “North of Saveh” based on previous studies. In one study, swarm dikes are classified based on their initial geometry into five types of I, II, III, IV and V. According to this classification, our study has been shown that the dikes in north of Saveh are of type IV. In another study, the swarm dikes are classified into three types: parallel, large radial and small radial. According to the classification, our study has been shown that the dikes of North Saveh are parallel that have arisen by tensions caused by the collision of the Arabian plate and the Central Iran plate. In addition to original tensions in the region, local faults have been effective on the arrangement and the establishment of dikes.

Swarm Dikes, Locating Mantle Plume, Dikes in North of Saveh, Dikes Classification

Bazoobandi, M. , Arian, M. , Emami, M. , Tajbakhsh, G. and Yazdi, A. (2015) Geodynamics of Dikes in North of Saveh. Open Journal of Ecology, 5, 452-459. doi: 10.4236/oje.2015.59037.