Unravelling a Proterozoic basin history through detrital zircon geochronology: The case of the Espinhaço Supergroup, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Chemale, Farid; Dussin, Ivo; Alkmim, Fernando Flecha de; Martins, Maximiliano; Queiroga, Gláucia Nascimento; Armstrong, Richard; Santos, M.P. dos

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“…For complementary quality control, a secondary standard was adopted using the Plešovice reference zircon (Slama et al 2008). Additional detailed methodology can be found in Chemale et al (2012). The LA-ICPMS data were reduced using the Glitter Software (Van Achterbergh et al 2001).…”

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“…Analytical spots were conducted avoiding grain areas with inclusions, fractures and metamictic structures. An Excel sheet developed by Chemale et al (2012) was used to data reduction. Further methodology can be found in Gonçalves et al (2016).…”

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“…1.5 Ga, and ca. 1.2 Ga; Danderfer et al 2009;Chemale et al 2012), and the Macaúbas-Santo Onofre-West Congo basin system (ca. 1 Ga, ca.…”

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Stratigraphy, tectonics and detrital zircon U-Pb (LA-ICP-MS) geochronology of the Rio Preto Belt and northern Paramirim corridor, NE, Brazil

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Two important Proterozoic metasedimentary sequences, the Rio Preto and Santo Onofre Groups, crop out along the northwestern margin of the São Francisco craton and in northern Paramirim corridor, respectively. The Rio Preto Group, involved in the eponymous fold-thrust belt along the northwestern cratonic boundary, comprises the Formosa (garnet schist, quartz-mica schist, quartzite, chlorite-sericite schist and ferriferous quartz schist) and Canabravinha (quartzite, micaceous quartzite, metarhytmite, phylite, schist and metaturbidite) formations. The Santo Onofre Group occurs exclusively in the Paramirim corridor, and is composed of quartzite and minor carbonaceous or Mn-rich phylite. These units record sedimentation in shallow to deep-water marine settings related to rift basins, and were deformed and metamorphosed under greenschist facies conditions during the Brasiliano orogeny. Here we present 427 new detrital zircon U-Pb ages, which constrain the maximum depositional ages of ca. 971 Ma for the Santo Onofre Group, ca. 912 Ma for the Canabravinha Formation, and ca. 965 Ma for the Formosa Formation of the Rio Preto Group. Our data suggests that the Santo Onofre and the Rio Preto Groups accumulated in two distinct basin settings. The latter, composed mostly of sandy rocks, would represent a relatively stable, shallow-marine shelf environment. The Rio Preto Group, with metadiamictite, quartzite, pelitic and rhythmitic rocks, represents a shallow to deep marine environment influenced by gravity flows. Both groups were probably deposited in the Late Tonian, and are potential correlatives of the lower (pre-glacial) units of the Macaú-bas Group of the Araçuaí belt. KEYWORDS:Detrital zircon U-Pb geochronology, Brasiliano orogeny, sedimentary provenance, Rio Preto Belt, Paramirim corridor. RESUMO: Duas importantes sequências metassedimentares proterozoicas ocorrem ao longo da margem noroeste do Cráton do

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Stratigraphy, tectonics and detrital zircon U-Pb (LA-ICP-MS) geochronology of the Rio Preto Belt and northern Paramirim corridor, NE, Brazil

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“…The main stratigraphic unit that sustains the Espinhaço Range is the Espinhaço Supergroup, a Paleo to Mesoproterozoic metasedimentary sequence, probably deposited between 1.75 to 1.20 Ga (Dossin et al, 1990;Chemale Jr. et al, 2012). It is formed mainly by quartzite, interbedded with layers of phyllite and diamondbearing metaconglomerate.…”

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Anatase crystals of unusual habit in quartz veins from the Diamantina region (Espinhaço Range, Minas Gerais)

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The Espinhaço Range, in the Diamantina region (central part of the State of Minas Gerais), is known worldwide as a famous source of associated occurrence of quartz, rutile and/or anatase crystals. The latter is also a classic accompanying mineral of diamonds in the alluvial placers. Primary anatase is related to hydrothermal quartz veins cutting geological units of the Espinhaço Range. In the last decade, outstanding large sized anatase crystals (up to 4 cm) in such veins have been reported from two areas, showing unusual habits and partial intergrowth with rutile. They are colorless, ocher brown, or golden yellowish, often double terminated, and iron rich. Due to their strong adamantine luster and pseudo-octahedral habit, some resemble diamonds. Two different morphological types have been studied: a simple crystal habit solely with {011} faces, and double terminated complex anatase crystals with one or more of the following forms: {011}, {012}, {013}, {017} and {112}. The geological environments as well as general mineralogical characteristics are also described.

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“…1). Several unconformity-bounded stratigraphic successions have been characterized along southern and central Espinhaço regions and within the Paramirim aulacogen (Schobbenhaus 1996, Danderfer & Dardenne 2002, Chemale Jr. et al 2012, Danderfer et al 2009, Alkmim & Martins-Neto 2012, Guadagnin et al 2015, Cruz & Alkmim 2017. Each unconformity-bounded unit has been considered a record of an episode of basin formations within the Congo-São Francisco paleocontinent, beginning at 1.8 Ga. Generally, the Paleo-Mesoproterozoic-age units are mapped as Espinhaço Supergroup, and those of Neoproterozoic age are attributed to the supergroup of São Francisco (Schobbenhaus 1996, Martins-Neto et al 2001, Danderfer & Dardenne 2002, Alkmim & Martins-Neto 2012.…”

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Tectonics and sedimentation of the central sector of the Santo Onofre rift, north Minas Gerais, Brazil

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ABSTRACT:The Santo Onofre Group registers the filling of a Tonian, intracontinental paleo-rift that developed along the northern and central Espinhaço regions. This paper examines this unit in the central Espinhaço region with stratigraphic analysis and U-Pb geochronology, reviewing and dividing into the Canatiba and Rio Peixe Bravo Formations, which include the Barrinha Member. The Canatiba Formation mainly comprises carbon-rich mudstones that were deposited through low-density turbidity flows that alternated with sediment settling under anoxic conditions. The Rio Peixe Bravo Formation consists of a succession of sandstones and minor mudstones, which were deposited through low-to high-density turbidity flows. The Barrinha Member mainly consists of conglomerates and is related to channelized debris flows. Detrital zircon grains show maximum depositional ages of 930 ± 33 Ma and around 865 Ma for the Canatiba and Rio Peixe Bravo Formations, respectively. We interpret the Santo Onofre rifting to be relative younger than that for the Sítio Novo Group and to be a precursor stage of the glacial and post-glacial rift-to-passive margin-related sequences of the Macaúbas Group. The lithostratigraphic term "Macaúbas Supergroup" would be of better use to accommodate the unconformity-bounded Tonian sequences that were related to the Rodinia breakup in the Congo-São Francisco paleocontinent. (Hoffman 1991, Meert 2001. Several phases that involved the breaking of Rodinia occurred, either through passive or active rifting, which were induced by remotely applied tensions (in-plane stress) and mantle plumes, respectively . These processes operated diachronically through a continental mass, and the full disintegration of the continent was complete at the end of the Tonian Period (Hoffman 1991, Cawood et al. 2016. Many rifts were formed before reaching this stage, some of which were aborted, and mafic dyke swarms intruded, which became dispersed in the scattered continents (Chew et al. 2010, Volkert et al. 2015. Investigations of these features have provided a better understanding of the space-temporal evolution of the Rodinia, for reconstructions (Hoffman 1991, Meert 2001. KEYWORDS:The Congo-São Francisco paleocontinent is characterized as one of several fragments of the Rodinia (Hoffman 1991. This paleocontinent encompasses the cover and basement rocks of São Francisco and Congo cratons and their marginal orogenic belts ( Fig. 1; Almeida 1977, Alkmim et al. 1993, Trompette 1994. The Espinhaço mountain range is a remarkable feature that extends with a sub-meridian direction across the entire extent of the Congo-São Francisco paleocontinent. The southern and central Espinhaço range regions integrate the Araçuaí fold and thrust belt as one of the external domains of the Neoproterozoic Araçuaí-West Congo orogen (Almeida 1977, Pedrosa-Soares et al. 1992, while the northern extension occurs along the eastern border of the Paramirim aulacogen, which was partially inverted, and involves the basement in the cover deformation (Schobbenhau...

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Unravelling a Proterozoic basin history through detrital zircon geochronology: The case of the Espinhaço Supergroup, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Cited by 202 publications

References 16 publications

Stratigraphy, tectonics and detrital zircon U-Pb (LA-ICP-MS) geochronology of the Rio Preto Belt and northern Paramirim corridor, NE, Brazil

Stratigraphy, tectonics and detrital zircon U-Pb (LA-ICP-MS) geochronology of the Rio Preto Belt and northern Paramirim corridor, NE, Brazil

Anatase crystals of unusual habit in quartz veins from the Diamantina region (Espinhaço Range, Minas Gerais)

Tectonics and sedimentation of the central sector of the Santo Onofre rift, north Minas Gerais, Brazil

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