Petrogênese dos basaltos de baixo-TiO2 do enxame de diques da Serra do Mar na Região dos Lagos, RJ

Abstract

Low-TiO2, tholeiitic basalt dykes occur eastwards the Serra do Mar Dyke Swarm within the Região dos Lagos from Niterói up to Búzios city. The dykes strike preferentially NE-SW bearing variable intrusive structures. The basalts are holo- to hypocrystaline, equigranular to inequigranular rocks with mostly intergranular and intersertal textures. They are composed mostly by plagioclase, augite and/or pigeonite and have corroded olivine, opaque minerals and apatite as accessory phases. Secondary mineralas are represented by biotite, bowlingite, iddingisite, uralite and saussurite. The phenocrysts assemblage comprise 15% olivine, 40% augite and 45% plagioclase. The rocks comprise a low-TiO2, subalkaline, tholeiitic basaltic suite hereafter called the Costa Azul suite. Nevertheless, lithogeochemical data point to the existence of more than one low-TiO2 suite in the study area. Geochemical modelling has shown that these suites can be related by different degrees of partial melting from a similar mantle source with residual garnet. The Costa Azul suite can be related with the Esmeralda low-TiO2 basaltic suite within the Paraná-Etendeka CFB province due south Brazil although comprising a wider Ti/Y ratio range. The rocks of the Costa Azul suite evolved by 42% of fractional crystallisation involving a phenocryst assemblage with 15% de olivine, 40% augite and 45% plagioclase. Binary mixing modelling point to at least 72% of a D-MORB component and 28% of a subcontinental lithospheric mantle (SCLM) component in the petrogeneses of the Costa Azul basalts. Models involving mixing between plume-like asthenospheric and SCLM components cannot explain the geochemistry of parental liquids in the Costa Azul suite. A geodynamic model involving continental lithosphere delamination and entrainment by ascending convection cells from the underlying asthenospheric depleted mantle during an advanced stage of Gondwana rifting is depicted on the basis of the petrogenetic models proposed for the Costa Azul suite.