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P-T evolution of metasedimentary rocks of the Santa Filomena Complex, Riacho do Pontal Orogen, Borborema Province (NE Brazil): Geothermobarometry and metamorphic modelling

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Author(s):
Santos, Felipe H. [1, 2] ; Amaral, Wagner S. [1] ; Luvizotto, George L. [3] ; Martins de Sousa, Daniel F. [1]
Total Authors: 4
Affiliation:
[1] Univ Estadual Campinas, Inst Geosci, Dept Geol & Nat Resources, POB 6152, BR-13083970 Campinas, SP - Brazil
[2] Fed Univ Western Para UFOPA, Inst Engn & Geosci, BR-68040255 Santarem, Para - Brazil
[3] Sao Paulo State Univ UNESP, Inst Geosci & Exact Sci, Dept Petr & Metallogeny, BR-13506900 Rio Claro, SP - Brazil
Total Affiliations: 3
Document type: Journal article
Source: Journal of South American Earth Sciences; v. 82, p. 91-107, MAR 2018.
Web of Science Citations: 1
Abstract

We present in this paper petrologic data and discuss the pressure-temperature (P-T) metamorphic history of the neoproterozoic metasedimentary rocks of the Santa Filomena Complex, Riacho do Pontal orogen, which is inserted in the southern portion of the Borborema Province (Northeast Brazil). Therefore, the data provide constraints on metamorphic evolution during Neoproterozoic Brasiliano Orogeny in Northeast Brazil. The rocks studied are aluminous schists and paragneisses. Silver-gray and red pelitic schists are intensely deformed, biotite-muscovite rich, contain centimeter-sized garnet, staurolite and kyanite porphyroblasts, and subordinately plagioclase and quartz. Paragneisses are from light gray to dark gray colored, medium to coarse-grained and display a well-spaced foliated matrix of biotite, and kyanite and garnet porphyroblasts. Locally, the schists and paragneisses are migmatized. Pressure-temperature modelling based on thermobarometric calculations indicate that metamorphism reached 643 degrees C with pressures estimated in 12 kbar. Pre-peak and post-peak metamorphic conditions are constrained by mineralogical and textural relationships: garnet inclusion-rich and inclusion-free (possible of higher T) are documented and the inclusion-rich core probably indicates a Sn-1 foliation that was transposed by S-n. The pre-peak stage most probably occurred close to 500 degrees C and 8 kbar, in upper greenschist to lower amphibolite facies metamorphism along kyanite stability field. We also propose that post-peak stage was associated with isothermal decompression along a possible path of tectonic exhumation in conditions of 600 degrees C and 7 kbar. To further evaluate the equilibrium condition, pressure-temperature pseudosections were calculated for the metasedimentary rocks. Thus, the estimated metamorphic peak took place in the upper amphibolite facies. A suggested clockwise pressure temperature path is compatible with the regional tectonic setting of continent-continent collision which occurred in the Late Neoproterozoic of Borborema Province, during the Brasiliano Orogeny. (C) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. (AU)

FAPESP's process: 14/03275-3 - Geochronology, geochemistry and metamorphism of the internal domain in the Riacho do Pontal fold belt
Grantee:Wagner da Silva Amaral
Support type: Regular Research Grants