Petrogenesis of Plio-Quaternary basanites in the Gandom Beryan area, Kerman, Iran: geochemical evidence for the low-degree partial melting of enriched mantle

In the Gandom Beryan area, basanitic lava flows erupted from fractures in the Nayband fault zone and formed an area of about 300 km2 of basanitic rocks in the western part of the Lut Block. Olivine and clinopyroxene are the major phenocrysts in a microlitic groundmass for these basanitic rocks.