Study of the concentration of major,trace,and rare earth elements(REE)in the Shahindezh karst bauxite deposit,northwestern Iran clarifies the relationship of the tetrad effect with geochemical parameters in the bauxite ores.The existence of irregular curves in the chondrite-normalized REE patterns as well as non-CHARAC behavior of geochemically isovalent pairs(Y/Ho)are related to the tetrad effect.The meaningful positive correlation between the sizes of the calculated T3 tetrad effect and some geochemical factor...