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| Author(s): |
Lucelene Martins
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Geociências (IG/BT) |
| Defense date: | 2001-06-04 |
| Examining board members: |
Valdecir de Assis Janasi;
Roberto Dall'Agnol;
Silvio Roberto Farias Vlach
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| Advisor: | Valdecir de Assis Janasi |
| Abstract | |
Magnetic susceptibility (MS) measurements and mineral and rock chemistry were used to infer crystallization conditions of syn- to late-orogenic (610-600 Ma) granites of the eastern portion of the Agudos Grandes batholith (central Ribeira Belt, SE Brazil). The syn-orogenic granites are metaluminous and have color indices (IC) of 8 to 15 given by hornblende, biotite, titanite and magnetite (unit HBgd). Liquidus temperatures obtained by apatite saturation thermometry decrease slighlty, from 1000 to 950°C with fractionation. Solidus temperatures, derived from hornblende-plagioclase thermometry, raise eastwards in the batholith from 720 to 800° C, reflecting decreasing a(H2O) of the magmas. Pressures derived from Al-in-hornblende barometry are nearly invariable (3.6 to 4.5 kbar), showing that the batholith is exposed at approximately the same level of intrusion along the studied section. These granites crystallized under strongly oxidizing conditions (DNNO ³ + 2), as revealed by high MS, by the compositions of biotite and relict ilmenite, and by ilmenite consumption due to fO2 above the TMQA buffer. The late-orogenic granites (Piedade massif) are metaluminous to marginally peraluminous. The metaluminous unit (BmgT; IC=8) bears titanite and magnetite, and crystalized under conditions comparable to those shown by the syn-orogenic massifs. The remaining units are made up of biotite + ilmenite (± muscovite and magnetite) granites with variable IC (15 to 5). These rocks crystallized mostly under more reduced conditions (QFM to DNNO = + 2), as revealed by lower MS and by the compositions of biotite and ilmenite, but were locally affected by post-magmatic oxidation processes. The liquidus temperatures obtained from apatite saturation thermometry in all granites from the Piedade massif are as high as those of the syn-orogenic massifs. Pressure estimates, based on muscovite compositions, are less reliable, but yield values around 4 kbar. The data obtained in this work are consistent with models which admit a genetic link between the syn-orogenic and the late-orogenic granites of the Agudos Grandes batholith. Continuous chemical variation of biotites, with the siderophyllite component increasing steadily towards the muscovite-bearing granites, and parallel decreasing of MS and fO2 suggest that contamination of metaluminous magmas by more reduced metasediments could explain most of the variation observed. (AU) | |