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Several fractional crystallization processes (flow segregation, gravitational settling, filter-pressing), as well as batch crystallization, have been investigated in this study using thermodynamic modelling (pseudosections) to test whether they are able to reproduce the compositional trends shown by S-type granites. Three starting compositions comprising a pure melt phase and variable amounts of entrained...
This study integrates gravimetry and thermal modelling with petrology, U–Th–Pb monazite and zircon geochronology and whole-rock geochemistry of the early Carboniferous Říčany Pluton, Bohemian Massif, in order to discuss the origin of compositional and textural zoning in granitic plutons and complex histories of horizontally stratified, multiply replenished magma chambers.The pluton consists of two...
The Madeira granite is one of the Paleoproterozoic (1.82Ga) A-type granite intrusions in the Amazonian Craton. It is elongated in the NE–SW direction and is composed of four facies. Classical structural techniques and the anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS) method were applied to the study of its internal fabric. Magnetic susceptibility measurements, thermomagnetic curves, remanent coercivity...
Post-collisional, granitic magmatism with high-barium-strontium (HiBaSr) content and shoshonitic affinity has been recently recognized both in the southern section of the Dom Feliciano Belt of Uruguay and its cratonic foreland. This group of granitic rocks has a distinctive age, mineralogy, chemistry and field characteristics. New zircon U–Pb LA-ICP-MS data for three of the plutons confirm their Late...
The late Variscan Serre Batholith in central Calabria represents the middle portion, c. 13-km-thick, of a tilted crustal section continuously exposed from lower-crustal granulites to upper-crustal phyllites. The batholith is zoned, consisting of several granitoid types that were emplaced at depths ranging from c. 23 to c. 6km. Deep, strongly foliated quartz diorites and tonalites were emplaced into...
The Meghalaya Plateau and the Mikir Hills constitute a northeastern extension of the Precambrian Indian Shield. They are dominantly composed of Proterozoic basement granite gneisses, granites, migmatites, granulites, the Shillong Group metasedimentary cover sequence, and Mesozoic-Tertiary igneous and sedimentary rocks. Medium to coarse grained, equigranular to porphyritic Cambrian granite plutons...
The qualitative and quantitative study of the textures (microstructures) of felsic rocks has been somewhat neglected, as compared to mafic rocks. This is partly because the major phases are all colourless with similar birefringence. This problem has been addressed using cold-cathode cathodoluminescence (CL). This microscope-based method easily distinguishes quartz, K-feldspar and plagioclase, and...
Granitic rocks (sensu lato) are major constituents of upper continental crust. Recent reviews reveal that the average composition of Phanerozoic upper continental crust is granodioritic. Although oceanic arcs are regarded as a site producing continental crust material in an oceanic setting, intermediate to felsic igneous rocks occurring in modern oceanic arcs are dominantly tonalitic to trondhjemitic...
The lithounits constituting the Ladakh Himalaya are exposed along the Indus and Shyok Sutures Zones of northwest Himalaya. The Shyok Suture Zone (SSZ) in northern Ladakh represents a highly tectonized zone of a back-arc basin, which is mainly composed of volcano-sedimentary formations (Shyok and Khardung Formations) intimately, associated with intrusive granitoids. In the Nubra-Shyok valley of the...
2.75 to 2.73Ga old granitic intrusions associated with coeval charnockitic rocks were emplaced in the northern domains of the Carajás Province. The Vila Jussara Suite was recognized recently and its geologic, mineralogical and geochemical characteristics are presented in this paper and compared with the data available in the literature on the Estrela Complex, Serra do Rabo and Igarapé Gelado granites...
S-type granites show strong positive or negative correlations for several elements and element ratios plotted against maficity (FeO+MgO), and the maficity of the granites is usually higher than that of experimental melts from metasedimentary sources. These compositional variations appear over a large range of scales within the same pluton and may reflect a strong influence of source-controlled processes...
Between the Late Cretaceous and Paleogene, the Northern Andes experienced subduction and collision due to the convergence between the oceanic Caribbean Plate and the continental margin of Ecuador and Colombia. Subduction-related calc-alkaline plutonic rocks form stocks of limited areal expression or local batholiths that consist mostly of diorites and granodiorites. We investigated two stocks (Hatillo...
The timing of partial melting and melt crystallization in granulite facies rocks of the Socorro–Guaxupé Nappe (SGN), Brazil is constrained using a combination of imaging techniques, LA-ICP-MS and EPMA dating, trace element geochemistry and thermobarometry. (Orthopyroxene)-garnet-bearing migmatite that records extensive biotite dehydration melting shows evidence for a clockwise P–T–t path. UHT peak...
In southern Brazil, three associations of metamorphosed tonalites and granodiorites that are compositionally similar to tonalite–trondhjemite–granodiorite (TTG) or adakitic associations have been identified in the Arroio dos Ratos Complex (ARC) Paleoproterozoic magmatism. The metatonalites of Association 1 (A1; 2148±33Ma) have a well-developed fabric, compatible with strong solid-state deformation...
Ladder dikes are steep tabular bodies, typically a meter or less thick, composed of moderately dipping, concave upward, alternating dark (i.e. schlieren) and light bands oriented roughly perpendicular to the ladder dike margins. These structures occur widely but sparsely in granitic rocks and are found prominently in the Cathedral Peak granodiorite (CPG) of the Tuolumne Intrusive suite. Previous studies...
The studied feldspar megacrysts from the Santa Angélica hybrid rock unit feature complex growth morphologies and geochemical compositions. Early crystallization formed zoned K–Na alkali-feldspar and unzoned oligoclase–andesine. The chemical composition of the zoned alkali-feldspar reflects crystallization in contact with different magma batches, and the chemical composition of the plagioclase indicates...
From the earliest (ca. 630Ma) pre-collisional plutons to the latest (ca. 480Ma) post-collisional intrusions, the Araçuaí orogen (SE Brazil) records an outstanding succession of granite production events in space and time. The Carlos Chagas batholith (CCB) is the largest (~14,000km2) granitic body ascribed to the collisional plutonism (G2 supersuite) in the back-arc region of the Araçuaí orogen, to...
The petrogenetic nature of A-type granites is a controversial problem. The Vinquis batholith in the Sierras Pampeanas of Argentina contains unusual F-rich and strongly peraluminous A-type monzogranites. A new LA-MC-ICP-MS U–Pb zircon crystallization age of 355±7Ma indicates emplacement in latest Devonian or earliest Carboniferous time, overlapping with extensive metaluminous A-type magmatism in the...
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