Petrologia dos diabásios da região de Angra dos Reis, RJ

Abstract

The petrogenesis of Early Cretaceous dolerites within the Serra do Mar Dyke Swarm in the region of Angra dos Reis (RJ) is presented in this dissertation. The dykes are associated with the Gondwana breakup and intrude rocks of the so-called Occidental Terrane and the Rio Negro Magmatic Arc within the Late Proterozoic-Ordovician Ribeira Orogen. Tipically, the intrusions are subvertical bearing a N039ºE preferential trend with sharp, linear contacts with their country rocks. The dolerites are essentially composed of plagioclase and clinopyroxene (augite and pigeonita). Quartz, opaque minerals, apatite and olivine occur as accessory minerals. The secondary phases are biotite, eterog and eterogene. The dolerites constitute a transitional series with tholeiitic affinity. Whole-rock geochemical data reveal the existence of five high-TiO2 suites which were discriminated on the basis of La/Yb ratios for samples with similar MgO contents. Petrogenesis analysis were done for suite 2 only due to scarcity of samples in the other four suites. As such, petrogenetic interpretation and modeling points to fractional crystallization as the likely evolutionary process associated with suite 2 dolerites. Samples representing parental liquids of five the high-TiO2 suites show values of La/Nb and La/Yb ratios greater than unity which points to at least a contribution of the subcontinental lithospheric mantle (SCLM) for their genesis. Nevertheless, source mixing processes may have operated since the marked composition of the SCLM (as the Nb depletion, for instance) tends to obliterate most of the geochemical characteristics of other mantle sources. Petrogenetic eteroge indicates that the all five studied suites are related to harzbugitic sources with residual garnet pointing to a thick SCLM by the time of the Gondwana breakup. Suite 5 cannot be associated with the same mantle source that generated suites 1, 2, 3, and 4 which in turn can be related to different amounts of partial melting from a common mantle source (respectively, 44%, 35%, 31% and 25%). As all five suites are close related in space, processes involving vertical chemical eterogeneities within the SCLM as opposed to lateral ones should be considered when putting constraints on geodynamic models for the Gondwana breakup.