Evidence of mingling between contrasting magmas in a deep plutonic environment: the example of Várzea Alegre, in the Ribeira Mobile Belt, Espírito Santo, Brazil

Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências

Silvia R. Medeiros²  Cristina M. Wiedemann-leonardos¹  Simon Vriend¹ 

[1] ,UFRJ IGEO Department of GeologyRio de Janeiro RJ ,Brazil

关键词: Magma mingling;    post-collisional magmatism;    Ribeira Belt;    Magma "mingling'';    magmatismo pós-colisional;    Cinturão Ribeira;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0001-37652001000100009

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

At the end of the geotectonic cycle that shaped the northern segment of the Ribeira Mobile Belt (Upper Proterozoic to Paleozoic age), a late to post-collisional set of plutonic complexes, consisting of a wide range of lithotypes, intruded all metamorphic units. The Várzea Alegre Intrusive Complex is a post-collisional complex. The younger intrusion consists of an inversely zoned multistage structure envolved by a large early emplaced ring of megaporphyritic charnoenderbitic rocks. The combination of field, petrographic and geochemical data reveals the presence of at least two different series of igneous rocks. The first originated from the partial melting of the mantle. This was previously enriched in incompatible elements, low and intermediate REE and some HFS-elements. A second enrichment in LREE and incompatible elements in this series was due to the mingling with a crustal granitic magma. This mingling process changed the composition of the original tholeiitic magma towards a medium-K calc-alkalic magma to produce a suite of basic to intermediate rock types. The granitic magma from the second high-K, calc-alkalic suite originated from the partial melting of the continental crust, but with strong influence of mantle-derived melts.

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