scholarly journals Petrogenesis of the synplutonic high-magnesian porphyritic dykes from the mafic-granitoid plutons of the East-European Craton, Voronezh crystalline massif

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 356-371
Author(s):  
R. A. Terentiev

This paper documents the data on high-Mg porphyrite dykes (PDs) from the mafic to felsic (~2.09 Ma) plutons of Elan complex (EC). The low-thickness (first centimeters) synplutonic dykes are characterized by sharp straight contacts without visible chilling zones, in contrast to the larger (up to 119 m) dykes that have gradual transitions. The dykes are fresh, porphyritic (bronzite, Al-enstatite, labradorite) and has fine-grained mainly quartzo-feldspathic (+biotite, sulfides, accessories, ±hypersthene) matrix. Based on geochemistry data the PDs are intermediate rocks (SiO2 = 58.9–60.3 wt. %) and plot into calc-alkaline series with high magnesian of whole rock (Mg# ~0.7) and felsic (68.9–70.2 wt. %) matrix (Mg# ~0.5). The PDs show differentiated rare-earth element patterns with negligible Eu anomalies. The bronzite phenocrysts varying sizes are characterized by block zoning and contain irregular inclusions of olivine (Mg# ~0.85), clinopyroxene (Mg# ~0.88), phlogopite (Mg# up to 0.94), labradorite, chrome spinel, graphite and sulfides. The Al-enstatite phenocrysts are practically sterile with respect to trace elements and mineral inclusions. The geochemical features as well as diffusion zones, reaction rims, and resorbed faces of the phenocrysts such as orthopyroxene and plagioclase indicate processes of recrystallization and/or partial dissolution of nonequilibrium crystals in the melt and indicate intratelluric nature of the dyke phenocrysts that cores are inherited from the EC derivatives/cumulate. The mineral thermometry estimates are: (1) the parent magma starting temperatures of 1200–1400 °С and (2) the EC crystallization temperatures 1080–1155 °С, (3) the PD emplacement temperatures 910–1070 °С. The petrogenetic model supposes the generation of EC high-temperature magmas similar to boninites from an upper metasomatized mantle. The melt is contaminated with continental crust lithologies. It implies the half-way evolved magma chamber in the crust. The PD melt, as a result of ending of the half-way magma chamber evolution, was emplaced into the still unheated EC plutons.

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylwester Czopek ◽  
Katarzyna Trybała-Zawiślak ◽  
Joanna Trąbska ◽  
Barbara Trybalska ◽  
Joanna Adamik-Proksa ◽  
...  

Abstract In 2017, an expedition of the Institute of Archeology of the University of Rzeszów (Poland) carried out excavations on a hillfort belonging to the Scythian cultural circle (its forest-steppe variant) in Chotyniec, in south-eastern Poland. The hillfort is the central and most important point of a large settlement cluster, which is the furthest north-western enclave of this cultural circle. In an excavated cult object – the so-called ‘zolnik’ – we made an interesting discovery. Here we show this unique finding for the first time: a Greek wine amphora, from the beginning of the sixth century BC. We were able to explore and reconstruct it almost entirely. Amphora is the only artefact of this type found in the present Polish borders. The amphora was subjected to archaeometric research with the use of PLM, SEM/EDS, TXRF and ToF SIMS. The massive fabric was made of high calcium clay enriched in quartz and volcanic lithoclasts. The lack of chromium and nickel among trace elements makes the vessel different from the amphoras from the Eastern Meditteranean analysed so far, suggesting a specific workshop. Red painting was executed with very fine grained iron compounds predominantly based on aluminosilicates, enriched in phosphorus. Obviously, since it is associated with the presence of Scythians in Eastern Europe, it simultaneously delimits (geography-wise) the borders of Greek influence.


1984 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 731-736 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan L. Green ◽  
Paul Henderson

A suite of hy-normative hawaiites, ne-normative mugearite, and calc-alkaline andesitic rocks from the Garibaldi Lake area exhibits fractionated, slightly concave-upward REE patterns (CeN/YbN = 4.5–15), heavy REE contents about 5–10 times the chondritic abundances, and no Eu anomalies. It is unlikely that the REE patterns provide information concerning partial melting conditions beneath southwestern British Columbia because they have probably been modified substantially by upper crustal processes including crustal contamination and (or) crystal fractionation. The REE contents of the Garibaldi Lake lavas are not incompatible with previous interpretations that (1) the hawaiites have undergone considerable fractionation of olivine, plagioclase, and clinopyroxene; and (2) the individual andesitic suites were derived from separate batches of chemically distinct magma that evolved along different high-level crystallization trends. In general, however, the andesites are characterized by lower light REE contents than the basaltic andesites. These differences in LREE abundances may reflect different amounts of LREE-rich accessory phases, such as apatite, sphene, or allanite, assimilated from the underlying quartz diorites.


Author(s):  
A. V. Maslov ◽  
V. N. Podkovyrov ◽  
E. Z. Gareev ◽  
A. D. Nozhkin

The bulk chemical composition of synrift sandstones and associated clayey rocks has been analized, and the distribution of the fields they form has been studied on discriminant paleogeodynamic SiO2K2O/Na2O [Roser, Korsch, 1986] and DF1DF2 [Verma, Armstrong-Altrin, 2013] diagrams. The studied sandstones in terms of bulk chemical composition mainly correspond to greywacke, lititic, arkose and subarkose psammites; Sublitites and quartz arenites are also found. A significant part in the analyzed data massif consists of psammites, in which log(Na2O/K2O)-1.0; missing on the Pettijohn classification chart. This confirms our conclusion, based on the results of mineralogical and petrographic studies, that the sedimentary infill of rift structures unites immature sandstones, the detrital framework of which was formed due to erosion of local sources, represented by various magmatic and sedimentary formations. Synrift clayey rocks, compared with sandstones, are composed of more mature fine-grained siliciclastics. As follows from the distribution of figurative data points of clayey rocks on the F1F2 diagram [Roser, Korsch, 1988], its sources were mainly sedimentary deposits. The content of most of the main rock-forming oxides in the synrift sandstones is almost the same as in silt-sandstone rocks present in the Upper Precambrian-Phanerozoic sedimentary mega-complex of the East European Plate, but at the same time differs significantly from the Proterozoic and Phanerozoic cratonic sediments, as well as from the average composition upper continental crust. It is shown that the distribution of the fields of syntift sandstones and clayey rocks on the SiO2K2O/Na2O diagram does not have any distinct features, and their figurative data points are localized in the areas of terrigenous rocks of passive and active continental margins. On the DF1DF2 diagram, the fields of the studied psammites and clayey rocks are located in areas of riftogenous and collisional environments. We have proposed a different position of the border between these areas in the diagram, which will require further verification.


1990 ◽  
Vol 84 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 86-87
Author(s):  
V.G. Kolokoltsev ◽  
M.A. Lisitsyna ◽  
L.E. Mordberg ◽  
E.N. Nesterova ◽  
A.G. Rublev

2002 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 99-124
Author(s):  
Julio Cezar Mendes ◽  
Cristina Maria Wiedemann ◽  
Ian McReath

An irregular and narrow ring of charnoenderbites and norite envelopes gabbros and syenomonzonites in the Venda Nova inversely zoned pluton, Espírito Santo. The former have an almost massive structure, with foliation only locally well marked. The norite is a fine-grained cumulatic rock with granular hypidiomorphic to intergranular texture. The medium-grained charnoenderbites comprise enderbites, Opx-quartzdiorites and Opx-granodiorites. They are leucocratic to mesocratic with granular hypidiomorphic to porphyritic texture. Ortho and clinopyroxene are present in the both lithotypes. Subsolidus textures occur in the norite and charnoenderbites. The whole rock chemistry separates two different sequences: a basic one, with tholeiitic affinities, correspond to the noritic cumulate, and an intermediary one, medium-K calc-alkaline, comprising the charnoenderbites. They show clearly different chemical signature when compared to the alkalic affinity rocks of the inner domain of the pluton. Both the sequences have similar geochemical characteristics: they are metaluminous, Ca, Fe and Al enriched, and have low to moderate incompatible elements contents. Normal to depleted mantle protolith is inferred for both sequences, and garnet probably was a residual phase during the mantle partial melting.


1983 ◽  
Vol 47 (345) ◽  
pp. 473-479 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. K. Hallbauer ◽  
K. von Gehlen

AbstractEvidence obtained from morphological and extensive trace element studies, and from the examination of mineral and fluid inclusions in Witwatersrand pyrites, shows three major types of pyrite: (i) detrital pyrite (rounded pyrite crystals transported into the depositional environment); (ii) synsedimentary pyrite (round and rounded aggregates of fine-grained pyrite formed within the depositional environmen); and (iii) authigenic pyrite (newly crystallized and/or recrystallized pyrite formed after deposition). The detrital grains contain mineral inclusions such as biotite, feldspar, apatite, zircon, sphene, and various ore minerals, and fluid inclusions with daughter minerals. Most of the inclusions are incompatible with an origin by sulphidization. Recrystallized authigenic pyrite occurs in large quantities but only in horizons or localities which have been subjected to higher temperatures during the intrusion or extrusion of younger volcanic rocks. Important additional findings are the often substantial amounts of pyrite and small amounts of particles of gold found in Archaean granites (Hallbauer, 1982) as possible source rocks for the Witwatersrand detritus. Large differences in Ag and Hg content between homogeneous single gold grains within a hand specimen indicate a lack of metamorphic homogenization. The influence of metamorphism on the Witwatersrand pyrites can therefore be described as only slight and generally negligible.


Minerals ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 588
Author(s):  
Indrani Mukherjee ◽  
Mihir Deb ◽  
Ross R. Large ◽  
Jacqueline Halpin ◽  
Sebastien Meffre ◽  
...  

The Vindhyan Basin in central India preserves a thick (~5 km) sequence of sedimentary and lesser volcanic rocks that provide a valuable archive of a part of the Proterozoic (~1800–900 Ma) in India. Here, we present an analysis of key sedimentary pyrite textures and their trace element and sulfur isotope compositions in the Bijaigarh Shale (1210 ± 52 Ma) in the Vindhyan Supergroup, using reflected light microscopy, LA-ICP-MS and SHRIMP-SI, respectively. A variety of sedimentary pyrite textures (fine-grained disseminated to aggregates, framboids, lags, and possibly microbial pyrite textures) are observed reflecting quiet and strongly anoxic water column conditions punctuated by occasional high-energy events (storm incursions). Key redox sensitive or sensitive to oxidative weathering trace elements (Co, Ni, Zn, Mo, Se) and ratios of (Se/Co, Mo/Co, Zn/Co) measured in sedimentary pyrites from the Bijaigarh Shale are used to infer atmospheric redox conditions during its deposition. Most trace elements are depleted relative to Proterozoic mean values. Sulfur isotope compositions of pyrite, measured using SHRIMP-SI, show an increase in δ34S as we move up stratigraphy with positive δ34S values ranging from 5.9‰ (lower) to 26.08‰ (upper). We propose limited sulphate supply caused the pyrites to incorporate the heavier isotope. Overall, we interpret these low trace element signatures and heavy sulfur isotope compositions to indicate relatively suppressed oxidative weathering on land during the deposition of the Bijaigarh Shale.


1993 ◽  
Vol 57 (389) ◽  
pp. 607-611 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ken Shibata ◽  
Hikari Kamioka ◽  
Felix V. Kaminsky ◽  
Vassili I. Koptil ◽  
Darcy P. Svisero

AbstractCarbonado and yakutite are both porous aggregates of polycrystalline micrometre-size diamond, with very different characters from those of monocrystalline diamond. The genesis of carbonado is very controversial, whereas yakutite is thought to have been formed by meteorite impact. Neutron activation analyses of trace elements in carbonado and yakutite indicate that their rare earth element (REE) abundance patterns have common characteristics: heavy REEs are not much depleted and a negative Eu anomaly is observed. These patterns are quite different from those of kimberlite and monocrystalline diamond and are similar to those of crustal materials such as shale, supporting the hypothesis of a crustal origin for carbonado and yakutite.


1985 ◽  
Vol 122 (5) ◽  
pp. 459-468 ◽  
Author(s):  
John W. Faithfull

AbstractThe Lower Eastern Layered Series (LELS) comprises approximately units 1–5 of previous workers. Remapping has revealed considerable along-strike lithological variation in the units of the LELS. It is suggested, on the basis of field and geochemical evidence, that two layers formerly regarded as ‘conformable intrusive sheets of fine-grained olivine gabbro’, may be evolved alii valite layers rather than later intrusions. Xenolith suites, in these layers and elsewhere, indicate a component derived from the roof or walls of the magma chamber. Cryptic variation is more extensive in the LELS than in other parts of Rhum: olivine forsterite content varies from 85.6 to 70, and clinopyroxene Mg×100/(Mg+Fe) varies from 88 to 74. Postcumulus effects and subsolidus re-equilibration have altered the initial compositions of the mineral phases. The data are consistent with a model of repeated replenishment by picritic magma, although the replenishing liquids may have been slightly less magnesian than those subsequently available, during the formation of the upper ELS.


2015 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saulo Gobbo Menezes ◽  
Rogério Guitarrari Azzone ◽  
Gaston Eduardo Enrich Rojas ◽  
Excelso Ruberti ◽  
Renata Cagliarani ◽  
...  

The question of whether the antecryst assemblage affects the bulk composition of lamprophyre dykes, and could be responsible for the compositional zonation between their centers and borders is addressed through a detailed study involving four monchiquite and camptonite dykes (basanites and tephrites) representative of the Arco de Ponta Grossa and Serra do Mar alkaline provinces. In them, antecrysts are interpreted as early-crystallized minerals that are no longer in equilibrium with their host-liquid, albeit still linked to the same magmatic system. They represent recycled crystals of earlier stages of the magmatic system at depth. The antecryst microtextures, such as zoned clinopyroxene megacrysts (augite cores and titanaugite rims) with partly corroded cores, olivine crystals with corroded rims surrounded by biotite coronas, chrome-spinel inclusions in clinopyroxene and olivine megacryst cores, and titanomagnetite crystals surrounded by biotite coronas, suggest chemical re-equilibrium with the matrix. The greatest antecryst cargo in these dykes is found in their centers. After subtracting the antecryst volume from the center analyses of each body, the calculated compositions are very similar to the border analyses. The mafic antecryst cargo of each occurrence proportionally leads to enrichment of MgO, FeO, TiO2, CaO, compatible trace elements (Cr, Ni and Co), and depletion of SiO2, K2O, Na2O, Al2O3 and incompatible trace elements (Ba, Sr and REE). The whole-rock geochemical analyses of each dyke represent the combination of accumulated crystals and melt. The compositional zonation of the studied dykes is associated with the antecryst cargo rather than different magmatic pulses.


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