Petrography and mineral chemisty from Indaiá I and Indaiá II intrusions, western Minas Gerais State / Petrografia e química mineral das intrusões Indaiá I e Indaiá II, oeste do Estado de Minas Gerais
AUTOR(ES)
Simone da Silva
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2008
RESUMO
An integrated petrographic and mineral chemistry study has been carried out on ultramafic, potassic to ultrapotassic and silica-undersaturated rocks of kimberlitic affinity of the Indaiá I and Indaiá II intrusions, Western Minas Gerais State, Brazil. These rocks outcrop at the Alto Paranaíba Igneous Province (PIAP), within a N30W-trending, elongated area, which is 250-km long and 70-km wide. The PIAP suites are located on the western border of the São Francisco Craton and are emplaced in a basement composed of rocks from the Craton itself and late Proterozoic Brasília fold belt. Within the limitations imposed by the overlapping mineralogical characteristics of the kimberlite, lamproite, kamafugite, orangeite and lamprophyre clans, petrographic data show differences in the Indaiá I and II mineralogical compositions. Indaiá I consists of olivine, opaque mineral and orthopyroxene megacrysts and phenocrysts set in an aphanitic groundmass of olivine, opaque minerals, tabular monticellite, subeuhedral brown perovskite, green diopside and carbonates, whereas Indaiá II comprises anhedral to subeuhedral olivine phenocrysts set in an aphanitic matrix of prismatic to subeuhedral greenish diopside microphenocrysts, anhedral opaque minerals and related brownish spinel, perovskite, rounded olivine and occasional interstitial (devitrified) glass. The Indaiá I mineral chemistry comprises chrysolite to forsterite [83 lamproitos química mineral kimberlites petrografia kimberlitos lamproites mineral chemistry petrography
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