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Journal of Petrology Advance Access published online on October 9, 2007
Journal of Petrology, doi:10.1093/petrology/egm055
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Calc-Alkaline Magmatism at the Archean–Proterozoic Transition: the Caicó Complex Basement (NE Brazil)

Zorano Sérgio De Souza1,*, Hervé Martin2, Jean-Jacques Peucat3, Emanuel Ferraz Jardim De Sá1 and Maria Helena De Freitas Macedo1

1Pós-GraduaÇão Em Geodinâmica E Geofísica And Departamento De Geologia, Ccet-Ufrn, Caixa Postal 1502, Cep 59078-970, Natal/Rn, Brazil
2Laboratoire Magmas Et Volcans, Opgc, Cnrs, Ird, Université Blaise Pascal, 5, Rue Kessler, 63038, Clermont-Ferrand Cedex, France
3Géosciences Rennes, Cnrs, Université De Rennes 1, 35042, Rennes Cedex, France

Received July 26, 2006; Revised typescript accepted August 15, 2007


  Abstract

The Paleoproterozoic metaplutonic rocks of the Caicó Complex Basement (Seridó region, NE Brazil) provide important and crucial insights into the petrogenetic processes governing crustal growth and may potentially be a proxy for understanding the Archean–Proterozoic transition. These rocks consist of high-K calc-alkaline diorite to granite, with Rb–Sr, U–Pb, Pb–Pb and Sm–Nd ages of c. 2·25–2·15 Ga. They are metaluminous, with high YbN, K2O/Na2O and Rb/Sr, low ISr ratios, and are large ion lithophile elements (LILE) enriched. Petrographic and geochemical data demonstrate that they belong to differentiated series that evolved by low-pressure fractionation, thus resulting in granodioritic liquids. We propose a model in which the petrogenesis of the Caicó Complex orthogneisses begins with partial melting of a metasomatically enriched spinel- to garnet-bearing lherzolite (with high-silica adakite melt as the metasomatic agent), generating a basic magma that subsequently evolved at depth through fractional crystallization of olivine, followed by low-pressure intracrustal fractionation. A subduction zone setting is proposed for this magmatism, to account for both negative anomalies in high field strength elements (HFSE) and LILE enrichment. Mantle-derived juvenile magmatism with the same age is also known in the São Francisco and West Africa cratons, as well as in French Guyana, and thus the Archean–Proterozoic transition marks a very important continental accretion event. It also represents a transition from slab-dominated (in the Archean) to wedge-dominated post-Archean magmatism.

KEY WORDS: calc-alkaline; magmatism; NE Brazil; Paleoproterozoic; petrogenesis

*Corresponding author. Telephone: 55-84-32153831. Fax: 55-84- 32153831. E-mail: zorano{at}geologia.ufrn.br


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