Geoquímica de rochas máficas da região de São José do Jacauípe, segmento norte do Orógeno Itabuna-Salvador-Curaçá, Cráton do São Francisco, Bahia

Abstract

Master Dissertation PATRÍCIA PIAIA Mafic and ultramafic complex are commons in orogenics belts and can represent differents tectonics environments like arcs roots, obducted parts of ophiolites, oceanic plateaus, litospheric mantle wedge or an aborted rift. Field, petrographic, mineral chemistry and litogeochemistry characteristics are important to characterize the formation environment. The Itabuna-Salvador-Curaçá belt is one of the Precambrian belts consolidated during the Paleoproterozoic. This belt hosts a lot of mafic and ultramafic bodies and the petrogenesis understanding of these bodies is difficult because they are often metamorphosed in granulite facies. The São José do Jacuípe metamorphic gabbro-anorthositic suit is one of these bodies. It´s a conjunct of stratified cumulatic rocks constituted by metaanorthosites, meta-leucogabbros, meta-leuconorites, meta-gabbros and meta-gabbronorites with associated metapyroxenite. These rocks have lithogeochemistry and mineral chemistry characteristics similar to arc mafic magmatism. They are being interpreted as a remaining of a mafic root of a magmatic arc and, in case of Itabuna-Salvador Curaçá belt, this arc probably is represented by the Caraíba Complex. Others complex that stand out in this region are the mafic dykes swarms. They are abundant in the north part of the Itabuna-Salvador-Curaçá belt. One of them is Aroeira swarm that occurs in the central and more deformed part of the belt. Their rocks have a gabbronoritic composition and sometimes are confounded with São José do Jacuípe´s rocks. The swarm intruded a continental crust, has a tholeitic and sub-alcaline character and affinity with basaltics magmas. Geochemistry modeling shows this magma was formed from low rates of melt of a mantle font poor in garnet and then, evolved by fractional crystallization and crustal contamination. The main minerals that crystallize were plagioclase, olivine and pyroxene. São José do Jacuípe and Aroeira´s rock are petrographically and lithgeochemically similar and difficult to differentiate. However, characteristics of dyke´s rocks like presence of phenocrysts, absence of any other litho type associated, differences of granulation and of the metamorphic degree between dykes and the relations of contact with the other rocks allow differentiate them of the meta-gabbonorites of São José do Jacuípe suit. xxii Meta-gabronorito-PATM-01