R. Dall'Agnol et al., Petrology of the anorogenic, oxidised Jamon and Musa granites, Amazonian Craton: implications for the genesis of Proterozoic A-type granites, LITHOS, 46(3), 1999, pp. 431-462
The 1.88 Ga Jamon and Musa granites are magnetite-bearing anorogenic, A-typ
e granites of Paleoproterozoic age. They intrude the Archaean rocks of the
Rio Maria Granite-Greenstone Terrain in the eastern part of the Amazonian C
raton in northern Brazil. A suite of biotite +/- amphibole monzogranite to
syenogranite, with associated dacite porphyry (DP) and granite porphyry (GP
) dykes, dominates in these subalkaline granites that vary from metaluminou
s to peraluminous and show high FeO/(FeO + MgO) and K2O/Na2O, In spite of t
heir broad geochemical similarities, the Jamon and Musa granites show some
significant differences in their REE patterns and in the behaviour of Y. Th
e Jamon granites are related by fractional crystallisation of plagioclase,
potassium feldspar, quartz, biotite, magnetite +/- amphibole +/- apatite +/
- ilmenite. Geochemical modelling and Nd isotopic data indicate that the Ar
chaean granodiorites, trondhjemites and tonalites of the Rio Maria region a
re not the source of the Jamon Granite and associated dyke magmas. Archaean
quartz diorites, differentiated from the mantle at least 1000 m.y. before
the emplacement of the granites, have a composition adequate to generate DP
and the hornblende-biotite monzogranite magmas by different degrees of par
tial melting. A larger extent of amphibole fractionation during the evoluti
on of the Musa pluton can explain some of the observed differences between
it and the Jamon pluton. The studied granites crystallised at relatively hi
gh fO(2) and are anorogenic magnetite-series granites. In this aspect, as w
ell as concerning geochemical characteristics, they display many affinities
with the Proterozoic A-type granites of south- western United States. The
Jamon and Musa granites differ from the anorthosite-mangerite-charnockite-r
apakivi granite suites of north-eastern Canada and from the reduced rapakiv
i granites of the Fennoscandian Shield in several aspects, probably because
of different magmatic sources. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights r
eserved.