This paper focuses on magmatic episodes and their relations to the main regional deformation in thebackarc region of the Araçuaí Orogen (southeastern Brazil). The main tectonic event took placeduring the syncollisional stage (ca. 585-560 Ma) and imprinted the regional, solid-state foliation (Sn)in most rocks of this orogen. In the mapped region (18°-19°S, 41°-40°30’W), the older unit (NovaVenécia Complex) occurs in small areas and consists of migmatitic, sillimanite-garnet-cordieritebiotiteparagneisses with minor calcsilicate intercalations. The widespread garnet-biotite granites(Carlos Chagas, Montanha and Ataléia suites) are correlated to the syncollisional, S-type, G2 supersuite(ca. 585-560 Ma) of the Araçuaí Orogen, because they persistently record Sn, usually associated tostriking mylonitic features. However, we also correlate some massifs of undeformed garnet-biotitegranite to the Carlos Chagas Suite. Outwards from such undeformed pods, this Sn-free, garnet-biotitegranite progressively shows solid-state deformation features superimposed on its igneous fabric, andgives place to the mylonitized granite typical of the Carlos Chagas Suite. In fact, both the undeformedand mylonitized granites of the Carlos Chagas Suite yielded similar magmatic crystallization ages (ca.585-575 Ma; zircon, U-Pb SHRIMP). These G2 suites often show restites and xenoliths of paragneissand calcsilicate rock, and gradational contacts with migmatitic inliers, suggesting a genesis related toanatexis of the Nova Venécia Complex. The usually small, irregular-shaped bodies and veins composedof garnet-cordierite leucogranites, free of Sn, belong to the post-collisional, S-type, G3 suite (ca.540-530 Ma, in the focused region). Most G3 bodies are enveloped by and contain restites of foliatedG2 granites, representing autochthonous to parautochthonous partial melts from the Carlos Chagas,Montanha and Ataléia suites. Sn-free granites and pegmatites, representing post-Sn partial meltsfrom the Nova Venécia paragneisses, also can be correlated to the G3 suite. Very large to relativelysmall intrusions composed of biotite granite, charnockite and/or norite, free of Sn, represent the lastmagmatic episode of the Araçuaí Orogen, in the focused region. These intrusions (Aimorés Suite)belong to the post-collisional, I-type, G5 supersuite (ca. 520-490 Ma). Such a succession of magmaticepisodes suggests that this middle crust sector of the Araçuaí Orogen remained hot (T > 650 °C) fora long time interval (ca. 100 Ma), from ca. 585 Ma to the Cambrian-Ordovician boundary. Thisrequires a long-lasting release of orogenic heat that could be explained by a combination of threesources: i) heat input by convective asthenosphe under the backarc region from the precollisional tothe syncollisional stages; ii) release of radiogenic heat from the crustal pile thickened by thrusts; andiii) ascent of mantle magmas and partial melting of the deep crust during the extensional collapse ofthe Araçuaí Orogen.
Resultados de datações U-Pb (LA-ICP-MS) sobre zircões e análises litoquímicas de amostras de paragnaisse e xisto do Grupo Andrelândia, coletadas desde sua área-tipo até a região de alto grau metamórfico do sistema orogênico Araçuaí-Ribeira, evidenciam que esta extensa unidade estratigráfica inclui representantes de bacia precursora de margem continental passiva, representada pelo Grupo Andrelândia Inferior (paragnaisse de Madre de Deus, Seqüência Carrancas), com idade máxima em ca. 950 Ma e fontes sedimentares diversificadas, datadas do Toniano ao Neoarqueano; e de bacias orogênicas, representadas pela Unidade Santo Antônio do Grupo Andrelândia Superior e paragnaisses de alto grau metamórfico da região de Ubá-Carangola, com idade máxima em torno de 640 Ma e extrema concentração de áreas-fontes neoproterozóicas. As análises litoquímicas apontam para larga predominância de fontes sedimentares situadas em arcos magmáticos, mas a amostra que melhor indica a bacia precursora (o paragnaisse de Madre de Deus, Seqüência Carrancas) tem assinatura similar a depósitos de margem continental passiva. Amostras de paragnaisse migmatítico revelam a idade de ca. 565 Ma para o clímax metamórfico-anatético na zona de fronteira Araçuaí-Ribeira. Destaca-se que o Grupo Andrelândia Superior, na forma como é representado em mapas atuais, incluiria pelo menos duas bacias orogênicas, i.e., uma, na Faixa Brasília e, outra, no sistema Araçuaí-Ribeira.Palavras-chave: geocronologia U-Pb, litoquímica, Grupo Andrelândia ABSTRACT: PRECURSOR BASIN VERSUS OROGENIC BASINS: EXAMPLES FROM THE ANDRELÂNDIA GROUP BASED ON ZIRCON U-Pb (LA-ICP-MS) AND LITHOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS. Results from zircon U-Pb (LA-ICP-MS) and lithochemical analysis on samples from the Andrelândia Group, collected from its type-area to the high grade core of the Araçuaí-Ribeira orogenic system, suggest that this extensive stratigraphic unit includes a precursor passive margin basin, represented by the Lower Andrelândia Group (Madre de Deus paragneiss, Carrancas sequence), with maximum depositional age around 950 Ma and diversified sediment sources dated from the Tonian to Neoarchean; and orogenic basin(s), represented by the Santo Antônio unit of the Upper Andrelândia Group and high grade paragneisses of the Ubá-Carangola region, with a maximum depositional age around 640 Ma and provenance extremely restricted to Neoproterozoic sources. Lithochemical analysis point to a large predominance of sediment sources located in magmatic arcs, but the sample representing the precursor basin shows signature similar to passive margin deposits. High grade paragneisses reveal the age of ca. 565 Ma to the metamorphic-anatectic climax in the Araçuaí-Ribeira boundary zone. It is important to notice that the Upper Andrelândia Group, as represented in current maps, includes at least two orogenic basins, i.e., the older, to the west, in the Brasília belt, and the younger, to the east, in the Araçuaí-Ribeira system.Keywords: U-Pb geochronology, lithochemistry, Andrelândia Group.
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