JOURNAL OF AFRICAN EARTH SCIENCES, cilt.130, ss.141-160, 2017 (SCI-Expanded)
The Kozbudaklar scheelite-bearing skarn deposit in the Taysanli Zone, western Turkey, occurs at the contact between Eocene Topuk pluton and Triassic Inonu marble of calcic character. The Topuk pluton is medium-coarse grained, granodiorite in composition and has a hypidiomorphic equigranular texture. The host rock contains mafic microgranular enclaves (MME) of monzodiorite-monzogabbro composition and is interrupted by porphyritic granodiorite and granite-aplite vein rocks. The pluton is calk-alkaline, metaluminous and composed of I-type melt character. 6180 and delta D compositions of silicate minerals from granodioritic host rock are 5.9-10.6%o and -77.0 to -71.4%o and conformable with the range of unaltered I-type granites. Trace element contents indicate that pluton is crystallized from mantle-derived magma interacted with continental crust in a volcanic arc or subduction related setting. Major and trace element concentrations of Topuk pluton are quite consistent with geochemical patterns of Cu-skarn granitoids.