Geologia do Terreno Paranaguá / Geology of Paranaguá Terrane

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2009

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The Paranaguá Terrane is composed of precambrian geological units distributed in a NE-SW elongated swath, about 250 km long and 30 km wide, in south-southeastern Brazil, within the States of São Paulo (Nothern Paranaguá Terrane), Paraná and Santa Catarina (Southern Paranaguá Terrane). This terrane is constituted mainly by an igneous complex, represented by the Morro Inglês, Rio do Poço and Canavieiras-Estrela suites. The country rocks of these l.s. granites are gnaissic and gnaissic-migmatitic rocks of the São Francisco do Sul Complex and metassedimentary rocks of the Rio das Cobras Sequence. Lithochemical signatures of the Morro Inglês Suite are compatible with arc magmatic-generated granitic rocks, with high-K to shoshonitic calc-alkaline character and relatively high contents of Ba, Nb, Zr, Rb, Sr, Th and K2O. This pattern resembles the one observed in sin- to late-collisional environments related to mature magmatic arcs, with sources modified by crustal contamination. The Canavieiras-Estrela Suite is composed of quartz-monzodiorites, leucogranites and monzogranites, with porphyritic and inequigranular rocks, with mafics represented by biotite ± anfibole. Comparativily, the Morro Inglês Suite rocks present higher values of K IND.2 Oand smaller values of Na IND.2 Othan the rocks of the Canavieiras-Estrela Suite. Both suites show important variations of Ba and Sr, high values of Rb and Zr, and medium-to-high values of Nb and Y. Two distinct rock units can be individualized in the Rio do Poço Suite, based on petrographical and lithogeochemical differences. The rapakivi sienogranites characteristics are compatible with metaluminous to marginally peraluminous type A granites. Such interpretation does not seem adequate for the two-mica leucogranites in this suite, which present a marginally peraluminous character, with HREE-depleted rocks, without an Eu negative anomaly. Petrographic and, mostly, structural data suggest that the Morro Inglês, Canavieiras-Estrela and Rio do Poço suites emplacement occurred during a late stage of the collisional event. U-Pb ages (zircon) of these suites are very close and does not allow a clear separation of them. A high concentration of ages between 600-580 Ma represent the main magmatic period of the Paranaguá Terrane. Although less frequent, older ages between 620-610 Ma were obtained in the three suites, suggesting the presence of a relatively early magmatism in this terranes evolution. U-Pb ages (zircon) obtained in crystals borders, as well as in late leucogranitic veins, are distributed between 560-480 Ma. These ages must be related with important thermotectonic events of the Cambro-Ordovician Rio Doce Orogeny. The metassedimentary rocks of the Rio das Cobras Sequence occur as elongated strips, with little areal expression. In the southern portion of the Paranaguá Terrane, green schist (biotite zone) paragenesis are present (Serra da Prata PR), while in the central and northern portions there are afibolite facies paragenesis up to granulite facies in association with kyanite-garnet-sillimanite-K feldspar (Guaraqueçaba - PR e Iguape -SP). U-Pb zircon analysis of the high-grade gneisses show a concentration of ages between 1.8-2.1 Ga. The analytical spots in zircon borders yield ages of 611 ± 39 Ma. U-Pb monazite ages yield a relatively younger interval of 599 ± 5 Ma, probably related with the metamorphic peak. The São Francisco do Sul Complex is represented by gneisses composed of diorites, quartzmonzodiorites, granodiorite, trondhjemites and monzogranites. In the Guaratuba and Guaraqueçaba region (Central Paranaguá Terrane) migmatization features are frequent, with garnet and turmaline-bearing granitic leucosomes. U-Pb analysis yield Paleoproterozoic (2.173 ± 18 Ma), Neoproterozoic (626 ± 25 Ma) and Cambro-Ordovician (510-490 Ma) zircon crystallization ages. The limit of the Paranaguá Terrane with the Luis Alves and Curitiba microplates is tectonic, characterized by the Palmital and Alexandra transcurrent shear zones in its southern portion and by the Serra Negra and Icapara thrusts in its northern portion. Both Palmital and Alexandra transcurrent shear zones (Southern Paranaguá Terrane) present sinistral kinematic with oblique component, marked by the coexistence of strike-slip and down-dip lineations. The Serra Negra and Icapara shear zones represent a large collision front, located in the Northern Paranaguá Terrane, with north-northwest vergence and oblique components (strike-slip and down-dip lineations). The transition between these two distinct tectonic styles is given by N-S or NNW-SSE faults associated with a transpressive regime, with lateral ramp characteristics. The observed structural pattern suggest that the emplacement of the Northern Paranaguá Terrane is due to nappe tectonics towards north-northwest. This collision is probably related with the Neoproterozoic aglutination setting of the western Gondwana Supercontinent.

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western gondwana paranaguá terrene geocronologia terreno paranaguá geotectônica gondwana oeste geochronology geotectonic

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