Geologia USP. Série Científica (Jul 2018)

U-Pb dating, Lu-Hf isotope systematics and chemistry of zircon from the Morro do Polvilho meta-trachydacite: constraints on sources of magmatism and on the depositional age of the São Roque Group

  • Renato Henrique-Pinto,
  • Valdecir de Assis Janasi,
  • Ginaldo Ademar da Cruz Campanha

DOI
https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9095.v18-125793
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 18, no. 2

Abstract

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We present new in situ geochronological data of controversial silicic metavolcanic rocks from the lower terrigenous-metavolcanic sequence of the São Roque Group, Ribeira Belt, confirming that they are older than the rocks of higher-metamorphic grade sequences of the Serra do Itaberaba Group. The age of the Polvilho meta-trachydacite was established at 1760 ± 17 Ma, furthermore the results suggest that the bi-modal volcanism of the Boturuna Formation has parent melts from an old (Archean to Paleoproterozoic) continental crust that was melted in a within-plate environment. Trace-element chemistry of zircon, suggests similarities with high-temperature melts (T Zrsat = 900–915ºC) similar to A-type granites (high negative EuN/EuN* and moderate positive CeN/CeN*) from continental sources under reducing conditions.

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