scholarly journals REE Minerals as Geochemical Proxies of Late-Tertiary Alkalic Silicate ± Carbonatite Intrusions Beneath Carpathian Back-Arc Basin

Minerals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 369
Author(s):  
Vratislav Hurai ◽  
Monika Huraiová ◽  
Patrik Konečný
Keyword(s):  
Basaltic Magma ◽  
Accessory Mineral ◽  
Rock Fragments ◽  
Rock Types ◽  
Volcanic Reservoir ◽  
Late Tertiary ◽  
Volcanic Ejecta ◽  
Intermediate Rock ◽  
Magmatic Reservoir ◽  
Back Arc

The accessory mineral assemblage (AMA) of igneous cumulate xenoliths in volcanoclastic deposits and lava flows in the Carpathian back-arc basin testifies to the composition of intrusive complexes sampled by Upper Miocene-Pliocene basalt volcanoes. The magmatic reservoir beneath Pinciná maar is composed of gabbro, moderately alkalic to alkali-calcic syenite, and calcic orthopyroxene granite (pincinite). The intrusive complex beneath the wider area around Fiľakovo and Hajnáčka maars contains mafic cumulates, alkalic syenite, carbonatite, and calc-alkalic granite. Both reservoirs originated during the basaltic magma underplating, differentiation, and interaction with the surrounding mantle and crust. The AMA of syenites is characterized by yttrialite-Y, britholite-Y, britholite-Ce, chevkinite-Ce, monazite-Ce, and rhabdophane(?). Baddeleyite and REE-zirconolite are typical of alkalic syenite associated with carbonatite. Pyrochlore, columbite-Mn, and Ca-niobates occur in calc-alkalic granites with strong peralkalic affinity. Nb-rutile, niobian ilmenite, and fergusonite-Y are crystallized from mildly alkalic syenite and calc-alkalic granite. Zircons with increased Hf/Zr and Th/U ratios occur in all felsic-to-intermediate rock-types. If rock fragments are absent in the volcanic ejecta, the composition of the sub-volcanic reservoir can be reconstructed from the specific AMA and zircon xenocrysts–xenolith relics disintegrated during the basaltic magma fragmentation and explosion.

The Idea of Contrasted Differentiation

1936 ◽  
Vol 73 (5) ◽  
pp. 228-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur Holmes
Keyword(s):  
Basaltic Magma ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Residual Liquid ◽  
Continuous Separation ◽  
Intermediate Composition ◽  
Rock Types ◽  
Crystallization Differentiation ◽  
Intermediate Layers ◽  
Intermediate Rock ◽  
Basic Rocks

As early as 1915, it was made clear by Bowen that, given continuous separation of crystals from the successive residual liquids of a consolidating magma which was initially basaltic in composition, the inevitable result would be a gabbroic rock in depth, a granitic one above, and “various intermediate types in the intermediate layers”. As a necessary condition to the evolution of a magmatic residuum of granitic composition, this process of progressive crystallization differentiation involves the generation of intermediate rock-types from residual liquids of intermediate composition. Certain investigators, however, led by the authors of the Mull memoir (1924), have entirely overlooked the necessity of this condition. Faced with the association of contrasted acid and basic rocks, which is a conspicuous characteristic of many continental central complexes, they have attempted to account for the facts by introducing a modified conception of crystallization differentiation for which Nockolds has recently proposed the name contrasted differentiation. According to this conception, the residual liquid of consolidating basaltic magma is of granitic composition and can be separated in bulk from a crystalline gabbroic phase.

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

2001 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
SILVIA R. MEDEIROS ◽  
CRISTINA M. WIEDEMANN-LEONARDOS ◽  
SIMON VRIEND
Keyword(s):  
Partial Melting ◽  
Granitic Magma ◽  
Geochemical Data ◽  
Mobile Belt ◽  
Tholeiitic Magma ◽  
Rock Types ◽  
Upper Proterozoic ◽  
Incompatible Elements ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Intermediate Rock

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.

scholarly journals Gold-hosting supracrustal rocks on Storø, southern West Greenland: lithologies and geological environment

2007 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 41-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Knudsen ◽  
Jeroen A.M. Van Gool ◽  
Claus Østergaard ◽  
Julie A. Hollis ◽  
Matilde Rink-Jørgensen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Volcanic Rocks ◽  
West Greenland ◽  
Metasedimentary Rocks ◽  
Quartz Veins ◽  
Rock Types ◽  
Minimum Age ◽  
Arc Setting ◽  
Basic Volcanic ◽  
Back Arc ◽  
Different Sources

A gold prospect on central Storø in the Nuuk region of southern West Greenland is hosted by a sequence of intensely deformed, amphibolite facies supracrustal rocks of late Mesoto Neoarchaean age. The prospect is at present being explored by the Greenlandic mining company NunaMinerals A/S. Amphibolites likely to be derived from basaltic volcanic rocks dominate, and ultrabasic to intermediate rocks are also interpreted to be derived from volcanic rocks. The sequence also contains metasedimentary rocks including quartzites and cordierite-, sillimanite-, garnet- and biotite-bearing aluminous gneisses. The metasediments contain detrital zircon from different sources indicating a maximum age of the mineralisation of c. 2.8 Ga. The original deposition of the various rock types is believed to have taken place in a back-arc setting. Gold is mainly hosted in garnet- and biotite-rich zones in amphibolites often associated with quartz veins. Gold has been found within garnets indicating that the mineralisation is pre-metamorphic, which points to a minimum age of the mineralisation of c. 2.6 Ga. The geochemistry of the goldbearing zones indicates that the initial gold mineralisation is tied to fluid-induced sericitisation of a basic volcanic protolith. The hosting rocks and the mineralisation are affected by several generations of folding.

Caracteres petrographiques de l'ophite de Vebre (Ariege)

1965 ◽  
Vol S7-VII (1) ◽  
pp. 168-171
Author(s):  
Ch Riotte ◽  
Jean Thiebaut
Keyword(s):  
Basaltic Magma ◽  
Petrographic Analysis ◽  
Chemical Analyses ◽  
Rock Types ◽  
The Right ◽  
Potassium Enrichment ◽  
Later Phase

Abstract Petrographic analysis of the ophite outcrop on the right bank of the Ariege river, below Vebre, France, shows that the rock is rich in epidote and exhibits pegmatoid differentiation. Three rock types are distinguished--common ophite with variable amounts of epidote; ophite with phlogopite; and pegmatoid rocks with orthoclase. The results of four chemical analyses indicate that the Vebre ophites were affected by pneumatolysis during crystallization from a saturated basaltic magma. The pneumatolysis caused the crystallization of hornblende and, in a later phase of potassium enrichment, the superimposition of orthoclase in the pegmatoid plagioclases and the phlogopite in the hornblende crystals of the ophite.

Alteration Features in Natural Zirconolite from Carbonatites

2000 ◽  
Vol 663 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.T. Williams ◽  
A.G. Bulakh ◽  
R. Gieré ◽  
G.R. Lumpkin ◽  
A.N. Mariano
Keyword(s):  
Rare Earth ◽  
Accessory Mineral ◽  
Chemical Information ◽  
Secondary Phases ◽  
Complete Replacement ◽  
Rock Types ◽  
Geological Age ◽  
Physico Chemical ◽  
Backscattered Electron ◽  
Textural Changes

ABSTRACTIn nature, zirconolite occurs as an accessory mineral in many different rock types, but the majority of reported occurrences are from carbonatites (magmatic carbonates) of geological age varying from a few million years to 2 billion years old. Within these 19 carbonatite occurrences, of which 15 have been studied in some detail, zirconolite displays varying degrees of alteration in six samples. This alteration ranges from incipient minor effects to major corrosion, recrystallization and complete replacement by secondary phases. The degree of alteration broadly correlates with either the age, or actinide content of the zirconolite (or both), and thus the extent and degree of metamictization. Changes in zirconolite composition with alteration include an increase in hydration (H2O), Si, Ba and Pb (possibly radiogenic in origin), and a decrease primarily in Ca and Fe. Th can be remobilized, and of the rare earth elements (REE), there is evidence that the heavy-REE are mobilized more readily than the light-REE. Using backscattered electron images and electron microprobe analyses, this study documents and illustrates the range of alteration features observed in zirconolite from several carbonatites, in terms of both compositional and textural changes, and provides some physico-chemical information on the fluids responsible for the alteration.

A Grenville-age layered intrusion in the subsurface of west Texas: petrology, petrography, and possible tectonic setting

1995 ◽  
Vol 32 (12) ◽  
pp. 2159-2166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hulusi Kargi ◽  
Calvin G. Barnes
Keyword(s):  
Tectonic Setting ◽  
Basaltic Magma ◽  
Layered Intrusion ◽  
Mafic Magma ◽  
Magma Source ◽  
Rock Types ◽  
Hornblende Gabbro ◽  
Tectonic Environment ◽  
Extensional Tectonic ◽  
General Order

The Nellie intrusion is a thick (more than 4420 m) mafic to ultramafic layered intrusion with a radiometric age of ~1163 Ma. Rock types change abruptly with stratigraphic height and include norite, pyroxenite, gabbronorite, hornblende gabbro, gabbro, anorthosite, harzburgite, and lherzolite. Norite is most abundant, but gabbro and hornblende gabbro are locally abundant. Rare olivine-rich layers are also present. The general order of crystallization was olivine, orthopyroxene, plagioclase + clinopyroxene, and hornblende. Mg#'s, expressed as 100 Mg/(Mg + Fe), range from 76.3 to 85.8 for olivine, 56.7 to 84.9 for orthopyroxene, 62.5 to 90.3 for clinopyroxene, and 52.4 to 82.8 for amphibole. Mg#'s vary with height and display abrupt reversals, which indicate open-system addition of new mafic magma. Eleven cyclic units were identified on the basis of evidence for injection of basaltic magma; these can be grouped into three megacyclic units. The abundance of orthopyroxene, and mineral compositional evidence for Fe enrichment within cyclic units, indicates that parental magmas were subalkaline and tholeiitic. Plagioclase in equilibrium with olivine ranges from An65 to An46, which precludes an arc-related magma source. Although the intrusion is approximately coeval with Keweenawan magmatism and with emplacement of diabasic dikes in western North America, it is dissimilar in detail to both suites of rocks. Nevertheless, its composition and geophysical setting are consistent with emplacement in an extensional tectonic environment.

scholarly journals Neoproterozoic magmatic evolution of the southern Ouaddaï Massif (Chad)

2020 ◽  
Vol 191 ◽  
pp. 34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Félix Djerossem ◽  
Julien Berger ◽  
Olivier Vanderhaeghe ◽  
Moussa Isseini ◽  
Jérôme Ganne ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Geothermal Gradient ◽  
Isotopic Signature ◽  
Biotite Granite ◽  
Granite Sample ◽  
Metasedimentary Rocks ◽  
Rock Types ◽  
Pan African ◽  
High K ◽  
Back Arc ◽  
Lower Crustal

This paper presents new petrological, geochemical, isotopic (Nd) and geochronological data on magmatic rocks from the poorly known southern Ouaddaï massif, located at the southern edge of the so-called Saharan metacraton. This area is made of greenschist to amphibolite facies metasediments intruded by large pre- to syn-tectonic batholiths of leucogranites and an association of monzonite, granodiorite and biotite granite forming a late tectonic high-K calc-alkaline suite. U-Pb zircon dating yields ages of 635 ± 3 Ma and 613 ± 8 Ma on a peraluminous biotite-leucogranite (containing numerous inherited Archean and Paleoproterozoic zircon cores) and a muscovite-leucogranite, respectively. Geochemical fingerprints are very similar to some evolved Himalayan leucogranites suggesting their parental magmas were formed after muscovite and biotite dehydration melting of metasedimentary rocks. A biotite-granite sample belonging to the late tectonic high-K to shoshonitic suite contains zircon rims that yield an age of 540 ± 5 Ma with concordant inherited cores crystallized around 1050 Ma. Given the high-Mg# (59) andesitic composition of the intermediate pyroxene-monzonite, the very similar trace-element signature between the different rock types and the unradiogenic isotopic signature for Nd, the late-kinematic high-K to shoshonitic rocks formed after melting of the enriched mantle and further differentiation in the crust. These data indicate that the southern Ouaddaï was part of the Pan-African belt. It is proposed that it represents a continental back-arc basin characterized by a high-geothermal gradient during Early Ediacaran leading to anatexis of middle to lower crustal levels. After tectonic inversion during the main Pan-African phase, late kinematic high-K to shoshonitic plutons emplaced during the final post-collisional stage.

scholarly journals Occurrence of volcanites in the Lower Siwalik Formation, an evidence of Late Tertiary igneous activity in the central Siwalik of Nepal

1992 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. P. Kaphle ◽  
H. C. Einfalt
Keyword(s):  
Volcanic Activity ◽  
Basaltic Magma ◽  
Small Bodies ◽  
Central Nepal ◽  
Late Tertiary ◽  
Igneous Activity ◽  
Geochemical Studies

Small bodies of volcanite are recorded in the Lower Siwalik Formation in central Nepal. Petrological and geochemical studies of these rocks confined that they are basaltic in composition and possibly formed from the alkaline basaltic magma. Occurrence of these rocks within the Lower Siwalik Formation indicate a late Tertiary volcanic activity in this region.

Grenvillean evolution of the Beishan Orogen, NW China: Implications for development of an active Rodinian margin

2019 ◽  
Vol 132 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 1657-1680
Author(s):  
Jérémie Soldner ◽  
Chao Yuan ◽  
Karel Schulmann ◽  
Pavla Štípská ◽  
Yingde Jiang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Basaltic Magma ◽  
Orogenic Belt ◽  
Central Asian Orogenic Belt ◽  
Metamorphic Event ◽  
Garnet Growth ◽  
Geodynamic Setting ◽  
Element Analysis ◽  
Nw China ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
Back Arc

Abstract New geochemical and geochronological data are used to characterize the geodynamic setting of metasediments, felsic orthogneisses, and eclogite and amphibolite lenses forming the Beishan complex, NW China, at the southern part of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt. The metasediments correspond compositionally to immature greywackes receiving detritus from a heterogeneous source involving a magmatic arc and a Precambrian continental crust. Metagranitoids, represented by felsic orthogneisses, show both composition of greywacke-derived granitic melt with incompatible trace element patterns similar to the host metasediments. The eclogite lenses are characterized by high Nb contents (5.34–27.3 ppm), high (Nb/La)N (>1), and low Zr/Nb ratios (<4.5), which together with variable and negative whole-rock εNd(t) (–4.3 to –10.3) and zircon εHf(t) (–5.0 to + 2.3) values indicate an origin of enriched mantle source as commonly manifested by back-arc basalts at stretched continental margins. Combined with monazite rare earth element analysis, the in situ monazite U-Pb dating of metagraywacke (880.7 ± 7.9) suggests garnet growth during a high-temperature (HT) metamorphic event. Together with U-Pb dating of zircon metamorphic rims in amphibolite (910.9 ± 3.0 Ma), this indicates that the whole crustal edifice underwent a Grenvillian-age metamorphic event. The protolith ages of the eclogite (889.3 ± 4.8 Ma) and orthogneiss (867.5 ± 1.9 Ma) suggest that basalt underplating and sediment melting were nearly coeval with this HT metamorphism. Altogether, the new data allow placing the Beishan Orogen into a Grenvillean geodynamic scenario where: (1) The late Mesoproterozoic to early Neoproterozoic was marked by deposition of the greywacke sequence coeval with formation of an early arc. (2) Subsequently, an asthenospheric upwelling generated basaltic magma underneath the thinned subcontinental mantle lithosphere that was responsible for HT metamorphism, melting of the back-arc basin greywackes and intrusion of granitic magmas. These events correspond to a Peri-Rodinian supra-subduction system that differs substantially from the Neoproterozoic ophiolite sequences described in the Mongolian part of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt, thus indicating important lateral variability of supra-subduction processes along the Rodinian margin.

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