Petrogenesis of the Brauna Kimberlite Field, São Francisco craton

Author(s)

José Paulo Donatti Filho

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Geociências
• Defense date: 2011-08-30

Examining board members

Elson Paiva de Oliveira; Ticiano José Saraiva dos Santos; Roberto Perez Xavier; Darci Pedro Svisero; Excelso Ruberti

• Advisor: Elson Paiva de Oliveira

Abstract

The present thesis deals with the classification of the Brauna Kimberlite Field magmatism, northeast São Francisco Craton, and its relationship with the host-rock, xenoliths (e.g. crustal and mantelic), diamondiferous mineralization and the regional tectonic context associated to the Rio Itapicuru greenstone belt and Serrinha Block. The scope of this study refers to conventional methodologies such as scanning electron microscope, electronic microprobe and X-ray difratometry for the mineralogy classification of the Brauna kimberlites and the related xenoliths. Additionally, we have used more robust analytical techniques applied to the kimberlite study, such as ICPMS and XRF and also isotopic analysis of whole rock and perovskite Sr-Nd isotope, and also zircon U-Pb geochronology, using TIMS and SHRIMP respectively, to understand the kimberlitic source and magma generation process. This volume was organized under paper form where the results, discussions and conclusions are reported. The first manuscript entitle -Age and Origin of the Neoproterozoic Brauna Kimberlites: magma generation within the metasomatized base of the São Francisco craton, Brazil, had the main subject the Brauna kimberlites and xenoliths petrogenetic classifications, since then superficially explored by the exploration Companies during the 80's and 90's decades. In this article we have utilized conventional techniques for rock classification such as petrographic descriptions, field relationships i.e. SEM, RAMAM and X-Ray difratometry for major and trace elements geochemistry. Also we have analysed the samples by most advanced techniques inexistent in the Brazilian literature so far, for example: trace elements using ICPMS, U-Pb perovskite dating and whole rock Sr-Nd and perovskite Nd isotope by TIMS. Furthermore, this manuscript has contributed for the international kimberlite community discussion about the heterogeneous kimberlitic magma types. The second manuscript entitled -Zircon xenocrysts U-Pb dating from the Neoproterozoic Brauna Kimberlite Field, São Francisco Craton, Brazil: geodynamic implications for kimberlitic intrusion, was awarded with U-Pb isotopic data in zircon xenocrysts in Brauna kimberlites and its host rock Nordestina granodiorite batholith using the SHRIMP. This article had the principal objective, to place constraints on the lithosphere beneath the Archean Serrinha Block. Furthermore, the detailed isotopic study on the host-rock was important to improve our understanding about the form and dynamic of the kimberlitic intrusion. It is important to note that this paper is the second published paper with this subject in the world (AU)