Geochemistry and petrogenesis of sanukitoids and high-K anatectic granites from the Bundelkhand Craton, India: Implications for late-Archean crustal evolution

Author(s)

Singh, Pradip K. ^[1] ; Verma, Sanjeet K. ^[1] ; Singh, Vinod K. ^[2] ; Moreno, Juan A. ^[3] ; Oliveira, Elson P. ^[4] ; Mehta, Pankaj ^[5]

Affiliation

^[1] Inst Potosino Invest Cient & Tecnol IPICYT, Div Geociencias Aplicadas, Camino Presa San Jose 2055, San Luis Potosi 78216 - Mexico

^[2] Bundelkhand Univ, Inst Earth Sci, Dept Geol, Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh - India

^[3] Univ Nacl Cordoba, Fac Ciencias Exactas Fis & Nat, Ctr Invest Ciencias Tierra CICTERRA, CONICET, Av Velez Sarsfield 1611, Edificio CICTERRA, Cordoba - Argentina

^[4] Univ Estadual Campinas, Inst Geosci, Dept Geol & Nat Resources, UNICAMP, POB 6152, BR-13083970 Campinas, SP - Brazil

^[5] Cent Univ Jammu, Dept Environm Sci, Jammu 181143, J&K - India

• Document type: Journal article
• Source: JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES; v. 174, p. 263-282, MAY 1 2019.
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Abstract

In this paper, we present in situ zircon U-Pb ages as well as whole-rock elemental and Sm-Nd isotopic compositions for late Archean sanukitoids of the Bundelkhand Craton, India. The LA-ICP-MS zircon U-Pb dating results of the sanukitoids (s.l.) indicate that these rocks were emplaced at 2577 +/- 16 Ma, with inherited zircon at an age of 2644 +/- 25 Ma, and are coeval with high-K anatectic granites (2544-2583 Ma). The sanukitoids (s.l.) are characterized by high-alumina (1516 wt.%), Mg\# (2750) and TiO2 (0.31-0.87 wt.%). They have a strongly enriched signature in terms of incompatible trace elements (LREEs and LILE) pointing to a subduction-related or crustal source. The high-K anatectic granites are characterized by Al2O3 (1215 wt.%), Mg\# (1339) and TiO2 (0.06-0.8 wt.%); they have enriched and variable concentrations of LILEs and REEs; and negative Eu anomalies (Eu/Eu{*} = 0.15-0.93). The whole-rock epsilon(Nd)(t) values (-3.64 to -1.66) indicate a crustal component. These isotopic and geochemical characteristics indicate that the sanukitoid plutons originated from the mixing of metasomatized mantle melts with anatectic melts and were followed by homogenization at shallow levels of emplacement, whereas the high-K anatectic granites indicate reworking of the pre-existing TTG crust during the cratonic stabilization ca. 2.5 Ga. This interpretation suggests a temporal evolution from TTG-domination through sanukitoids (s.l.) to anatectic leucogranites by an internal reworking of the continental crust, involving subduction-collision environments in the late Archean era. Such magmatic events and tectonics during the late-Archean in the Bundelkhand Craton resemble other Archean cratons, such as the Dharwar, North China, Karelian, Superior Province, Pilbara, Kaapvaal and Amazonian. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 12/07243-3 - Application of new multi-dimensional discrimination diagrams and geochemical modeling to Archaean igneous rocks of Brazilian cratons
• Grantee: Sanjeet Kumar Verma
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• FAPESP's process: 12/15824-6 - Evolution of archaean terranes of the São Francisco Craton and the Borborema Province, Brazil: global environmental and geodynamic implications
• Grantee: Elson Paiva de Oliveira
• Support Opportunities: Research Projects - Thematic Grants