The southern part of Toumodi-Fètêkro greenstone belt is located in the Center -Southeast of Ivory Coast. Petrographic study of volcanic and plutonic rocks shows three units. The first unit is composed of basaltic to rhyolitic lavas which imply effusive character. Then we have volcanosedimentary unit composed of pyroclastic formations (lapilli tuff, breccia, ash deposit and ignimbrites) and the pillow-lavas. Indeed, the presence of this last shows clearly that an explosive volcanism and a submarine effusive volcanism have occurred during during the setting of Toumodi-Fètêkro belt. Plutonic unit is constituted of gabbroic to granitic rocks. Sericite, chlorite, epidote observed in these rocks are consistent with the impacts of greenschist facies metamorphism. The rocks of the southern part of the Toumodi-Fètêkro greenstone belt are formed in a subduction context rather than in oceanic plateaus context because of the old inheritance, sometimes of Archean age, found somewhere in theBirimiandomain. The lithologies of the southern part of Toumodi-Fètêkro meet elsewhere in the other Birimian greenstone belts. Also, these lithologies are affected by a hydrothermal alteration due to the abundant veins of quartz, carbonates, sericite, chlorite, epidote, sulphides and oxides. However, volcanic show in some places amphibolit facies metamorphism. Keywords
The present study deals with peridotites found in the paleo-proterozoic domain of the Leo Man Shield, Séguéla region, west-central of Côte d'Ivoire. Results show that Séguéla peridotites are composed of lherzolites, dunites and harzburgites. However, iherzolites are the most abundant. The phenocrysts in these rocks are olivine most often serpentinised, and pyroxenes, represented by diopside and enstatite. Amphiboles are divided into two groups: magmatic amphiboles and those from the destabilization of clinopyroxene. Spinels have CrO 3 content which varies between 28% and 37%, Al 2 O 3 between 33% -41% and MgO is equal to 18%; they are poor in TiO 2 and do not contain zinc oxide. Séguéla peridotites are characterised by a negative anomaly in Nb-Ta, associated with an enrichment of lithophilic elements and light rare earth elements with a fractionation rate (La/Yb) which varies between 46.22 and 150.72 and heavy rare earth elements, and HFSE depletion, which may suggest that were formed in an art context, that is, a mantle enriched by fluids from a subduction zone. However, another hypothesis could be considered, that of the interaction between the mantle and magmas in a subduction zone context.
Les granitoïdes de la partie Sud du batholite de Ferkessédougou s’étendent ou couvrent la région d’Issia où ils sont représentés par une série de roches allant des granites à deux micas à biotite dominante aux granites à deux micas à muscovite dominante. Cette étude rapporte de nouveaux résultats pétrographiques et géochimiques des granites de la région d’Issia. Sur le plan pétrographique, ils se répartissent en trois séries granitiques à savoir les granites G1, G2 et G3. Les granites G1 sont caractérisés par une abondance de la biotite par rapport à la muscovite et ont subi une migmatisation. Les granites G2 sont marqués par une abondance de minéraux de feldspaths potassiques présents sous forme de porphyres. Les granites G3 quant à eux se distinguent par une dominance de la muscovite, suivie de la tourmaline et sont pourvus de filons de pegmatites d’épaisseurs centimétriques à métriques. Sur le plan de la chimie, les granites G1 sont faiblement peralumineux (1˂A/CNK˂1,16), les granites G2 sont moyennement peralumineux (1,14˂A/CNK˂1,18) et les G3 fortement peralumineux (A/CNK˃1,19). Les caractères pétrographiques et géochimiques rattachent les granites G1 au type I et les granites G2 et G3 au type S.
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