scholarly journals SOBRE A EVOLUÇÃO TECTÔNICA DO ORÓGENO ARAÇUAÍ-CONGO OCIDENTAL

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando Flecha Alkmim ◽  
Antônio Carlos Pedrosa-Soares ◽  
Carlos Maurício Noce ◽  
Simone Cerqueira Pereira Cruz
Keyword(s):  
Continental Margin ◽  
Large Volume ◽  
Tectonic Evolution ◽  
The West ◽  
External Zone ◽  
West Gondwana ◽  
Final Assembly ◽  
Pan African ◽  
Ocean Floor Spreading ◽  
Mountain Belts

Caracterizada, há 30 anos atrás, como cinturão de dobramentos brasilianos que limitaria o Cráton do SãoFrancisco pelo sudeste e sul, a Faixa Araçuaí é hoje entendida como parte do domínio metamórfico externodo Orógeno Araçuaí-Congo Ocidental. Este componente da grande rede orogênica do Gondwana Ocidentalque, na África, compreende a Faixa Oeste-Congolesa e, no Brasil, a Faixa Araçuaí e terrenos adjacentes aleste, possui uma série de atributos singulares. Contornado pelo Cráton do São Francisco-Congo e contíguo, asul, ao sistema orogênico Ribeira exibe, em mapa, uma forma em ferradura e vergências centrífugas, o que aprincípio sugere uma evolução essencialmente ensiálica. Os estudos realizados no Orógeno Araçuaí mostram,entretanto, que geração e consumo de assoalho oceânico constituem fases da sua evolução, como tambémo são vários pulsos de volumosa produção de magmas graníticos a partir de fontes tanto mantélicas, quantocrustais. Analisado do ponto de vista tectônico, o Orógeno Araçuaí-Congo Ociental pode ser subdividido emdez compartimentos, os quais desempenharam papéis distintos no curso de sua história. Dada a sua naturezaconfinada e as funções cinemáticas desempenhadas pelas peças do seu arcabouço, postulou-se a hipótese,ora em fase de teste, de que o Orogeno Araçuaí-Congo Ocidental tenha evoluído a partir de uma baciaparcialmente assoalhada por crosta oceânica - a Bacia Macaúbas, iniciada por volta de 880 Ma - através ummecanismo que lembra a operação de um quebra-nozes. Ou seja, as peças cratônicas do São Francisco e doCongo, articuladas por meio de riftes interiores, mover-se-iam em sentidos opostos por forças de colisõesem suas margens e promoveriam o fechamento da bacia mediterrânea precursora. Ao evento colisionalprincipal, que se desencadeou por volta de 580 Ma, sucederam as fases de escape lateral da porção sul e decolapso gravitacional. Antevê-se que a continuidade do estudo da porção brasileira desta feição orogênica,que constitui um excepcional laboratório natural, trará respostas para muitas questões ainda em aberto nãosó sobre esta, mas também sobre as cadeias de montanhas de um modo geral.Palavras-chave: Faixa Araçuaí, Orógeno Araçuaí-Congo Ocidental, Evento Brasiliano-Panafricano,Neoproterozóico, Gondwana Ocidental. ABSTRACT: The Araçuaí Belt, portrayed by Almeida (1977) as a brasiliano orogenic domain developed along thesoutheastern margin of the São Francisco Craton, is now viewed as part of the external zone of the socalled Araçuaí-West Congo Orogen. This orogen, which also encompasses the West Congo Belt of Africaand the terrain between the Araçuaí Belt and the Brazilian continental margin, exhibits a whole series ofpuzzling features. Confined to a tongue-shaped enclave between the São Francisco and Congo cratons,the Araçuaí-West Congo Orogen involves, besides Neoproterozoic ophiolites, a large volume of plutonicrocks including subduction-related granites. Its evolution is thus associated with ocean floor spreading andsubduction, processes difficult to reconcile with its confined nature. From a tectonic perspective, the Araçuaí-West Congo Orogen can be subdivided in ten compartments, which played distinct rules in the course of itsdevelopment. Considering the peculiar setting it formed and knowing the kinematic function of the mainstructures, the tectonic evolution of the Araçuaí-West Congo Orogen can be best explain by a model thatinvolves the closure of a basin partially floored by oceanic crust – the Macaúbas basin, iniciated around880 Ma - through a mechanism that resembles the operation of a nutcracker. The São Francisco and Congocratons, like pincers of a nutcracker, and articulated along interior rifts (the Pirapora, Paramirim and Sanghaaulacogens), rotated against each other, compressing the Macaúbas basin that lay in-between. The drivenforces for the closure are probably triggered by collisions along the margins of the São Francisco-Congo plateduring the final assembly of West Gondwana. The main collisional stage around 580 Ma was followed by thelateral escape of the southern portion of the orogen and gravity collapse. We anticipate that the continuationof the study of the Brazilian or Araçuaí portion of the Araçuaí-West Congo Orogen, which correspond to anextraordinary natural lab, will bring solution not only for the enigmas presented by this peculiar orogen, butalso for questions related to the anatomy and development of mountain belts in general.Keywords: Araçuaí belt, Araçuaí-West Congo orogen, Brasiliano-Pan African event, Neoproterozoic,, WestGondwana 

Interprétation géodynamique du domaine pan-africain (Précambrien terminal) de l'Anti-Atlas (Maroc) à partir de données géologiques et géochronologiques

1980 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 142-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Leblanc ◽  
J. R. Lancelot
Keyword(s):  
Continental Margin ◽  
Active Continental Margin ◽  
West African ◽  
The Other ◽  
Geochronological Data ◽  
Geodynamic Evolution ◽  
The West ◽  
West African Craton ◽  
Northern Margin ◽  
Pan African

U–Pb and Rb–Sr ages performed in the Anti-Atlas (Morocco), especially in Bou Azzer area, demonstrate a Pan-African orogeny (680–570 Ma), along the northern margin of the West African craton (2000 Ma). Geological and geochronological data allow the reconstitution of a coherent succession of events of Pan-African ages. The geodynamic evolution of this domain comprises a stage of oceanic opening (ophiolites) followed with a stage of closure: obduction of the ophiolites on the craton, then subduction under an active continental margin. This segment of the Pan-African belt can be correlated with the other parts of the belt, located on the eastern margin of the West African craton.

Tectonic evolution of the west Spitsbergen fold belt

1985 ◽  
Vol 114 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 193-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Craddock ◽  
E.C. Hauser ◽  
H.D. Maher ◽  
A.Y. Sun ◽  
Zhu Guo-Qiang
Keyword(s):  
Tectonic Evolution ◽  
Fold Belt ◽  
The West ◽  
West Spitsbergen

scholarly journals Magmatic flare-up causes crustal thickening at the transition from subduction to continental collision

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos E. Ganade ◽  
Pierre Lanari ◽  
Daniela Rubatto ◽  
Joerg Hermann ◽  
Roberto F. Weinberg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Production Rate ◽  
Continental Margin ◽  
Subduction Zones ◽  
Continental Collision ◽  
Crustal Thickening ◽  
Time Intervals ◽  
West Gondwana ◽  
Continental Arc ◽  
Order Of Magnitude

AbstractAbove subduction zones, magma production rate and crustal generation can increase by an order of magnitude during narrow time intervals known as magmatic flare-ups. However, the consequences of these events in the deep arc environment remain poorly understood. Here we use petrological and in-situ zircon dating techniques to investigate the root of a continental arc within the collisional West Gondwana Orogen that is now exposed in the Kabyé Massif, Togo. We show that gabbros intruded 670 million years ago at 20–25 km depth were transformed to eclogites by 620 million years ago at 65–70 km depth. This was coeval with extensive magmatism at 20–40 km depth, indicative of a flare-up event which peaked just prior to the subduction of the continental margin. We propose that increased H2O flux from subduction of serpentinized mantle in the hyper-extended margin of the approaching continent was responsible for the increased magma productivity and crustal thickening.

Meliatic blueschists and their detritus in Cretaceous sediments: new data constraining tectonic evolution of the West Carpathians

2018 ◽  
Vol 112 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dušan Plašienka ◽  
Štefan Méres ◽  
Peter Ivan ◽  
Milan Sýkora ◽  
Ján Soták ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tectonic Evolution ◽  
The West ◽  
West Carpathians

Anorogenic magmatism and the Grenvillian Orogeny

1989 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 479-489 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian F. Windley
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
South America ◽  
Continental Margin ◽  
South Atlantic ◽  
Island Arc ◽  
The South ◽  
The West ◽  
Continental Block ◽  
Grenvillian Orogeny ◽  
Alkaline Complexes

The Grenvillian Orogeny was preceded by extensive anorogenic volcanism and plutonism in the period 1500–1300 Ma in the form of rhyolites, epizonal granites, anorthosites, gabbros, alkaline complexes, and basic dykes. An analogue for the mid-Proterozoic anorogenic complexes is provided by the 2000 km by 200 km belt of anorogenic complexes in the Hoggar, Niger, and Nigeria, which contain anorthosites, gabbros, and peralkaline granites and were generated in a Cambrian to Jurassic rift that farther south led to the formation of the South Atlantic. An analogue for the 1 × 106 km2 area of 1500–1350 Ma rhyolites (and associated epizonal granites) that underlie the mid-continental United States is provided by the 1.7 × 106 km2 area of Jurassic Tobifera rhyolites in Argentina, which were extruded on the stretched continental margin of South America immediately preceding the opening of the South Atlantic. The mid-Proterozoic complexes were intruded close to the continental margin of the Grenvillian ocean and were commonly superimposed by the craton-directed thrusts that characterized the final stages of the Grenvillian Orogeny. The bulk of the Keweenawan rift and associated anorogenic magmatism formed about 1100 Ma at the same time as the Ottawan Orogeny in Ontario, which probably resulted from the collision of the island arc of the Central Metasedimentary Belt attached to the continental block in the east with the continental block to the west. The most appropriate modern equivalent would be the Rhine Graben, which formed at the same time as the main Alpine compression.

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