Mafic macrocrysts of ultrabasic alkaline dikes from the Mantiqueira Range, SE, Brazil: tracers of a complex plumbing system

Author(s)

Júlio César Lopes da Silva ; Rogério Guitarrari Azzone ^[2] ; Luanna Chmyz ^[3] ; Vincenza Guarino ^[4] ; Nicholas Machado Lima

• Document type: Journal article
• Source: BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY; v. 50, n. 3 2020-08-07.

Abstract

Abstract Macrocryst assemblages of porphyritic alkaline dikes in the Mantiqueira range (SE Brazil) are mainly composed of clinopyroxene and olivine with different origins. Based on petrographic features, mineral chemistry, and equilibrium relationships with the host liquid, those macrocrysts are classified as xenocrysts, antecrysts, and phenocrysts. Described xenocrysts are mantle olivine, Cr-diopside cores compatible with garnet-bearing mantle facies, green-core clinopyroxene cores compatible with lower crust, and enstatite cores mantled by clinopyroxene, all reported for the first time in this region. Two contrasting types of clinopyroxene antecrysts prevail among the macrocryst cores (both occurring in the same samples and presenting corrosion and sieve textures): primitive colorless diopside and more evolved green-core clinopyroxenes. In the studied rocks, green clinopyroxene zones mantling colorless diopside cores (and vice-versa) are also found. Diopside- and green-cores antecrysts have similar compositions to those from mafic and felsic alkaline melts, respectively. Phenocrysts are mainly related to Ti-augite overgrowths, mantling all other types. Mixing-model curves between mafic and felsic alkaline equilibrium liquids calculated from clinopyroxene antecrysts indicate a hybrid origin for the host matrix. The macrocryst populations of the studied dikes are indicative of a complex plumbing system, recording several processes of an open-system magmatic evolution. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 17/03768-8 - Xenocryst and Antecryst compositional influence in basic to ultrabasic alkaline magmas
• Grantee: Rogério Guitarrari Azzone
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• FAPESP's process: 12/06082-6 - The Paraná-Etendeka magmatic province in Brazil: temporal and petrologic relationships between the tholeiitic and alkaline magmatism and geodynamic implications
• Grantee: Excelso Ruberti
• Support Opportunities: Research Projects - Thematic Grants
• FAPESP's process: 18/15731-4 - Elements mobility during fenitization processes: the carbonatite metasomatism in the Alto Paranaíba and Ponta Grossa Arch alkaline provinces
• Grantee: Luanna Chmyz
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral