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A Escola de Minas de Ouro Preto foi fundada pelo cientista Claude Henri Gorceix e inaugurada em 12 de outubro de 1876.
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Item Magmatic diversity in continental rifts : a case study on the Early Tonian, plutono-volcanic Salto da Divisa Complex, Araçuaí Orogen, Eastern Brazil.(2022) Victoria, Anderson Magalhães; Soares, Antônio Carlos Pedrosa; Cruz, Simone Cerqueira Pereira; Lana, Cristiano de Carvalho; Dantas, Elton Luiz; Dussin, Ivo Antonio; Borges, RamonExposures from plutonic roots to volcanic roofs in deeply eroded regions may disclose the architecture and igneous processes in ancient metamagmatic edifices, like it is the Early Tonian Salto da Divisa Complex (SADICO) of Eastern Brazil. Field, petrographic, lithochemical and isotopic (in-zircon U-Pb and Lu-Hf, and whole-rock Sm-Nd) studies were conducted on the SADICO, an anorogenic plutono-volcanic complex located in the northeast Araçuaí orogen. The SADICO magmatic record comprises (with U-Pb crystallization ages, and isotopic Hf and Nd data): i) pyroxenite (εNd(t): +2.2 to −5.3; Nd TDM: 1.2–1.7 Ga); ii) mafic-intermediate dykes (εNd(t):+2.1 to −5.9; Nd TDM: 1.2–1.8 Ga) and enclaves with OIB-like signature; ii) ferroan, A-type granitoid with mafic-felsic mingling-mixing features (885 ± 9 Ma; εHf(t): −5 to −7, Hf TDM: 2.0–2.1 Ga; εNd(t): −3.2 to −4.3, Nd TDM: 1.5–1.7 Ga); iii) fluorite-bearing, metaluminous to peraluminous, ferroan A-type granites, including biotite-amphibole granite (915 to 875 Ma; εNd(t): −2.8 to −5.8, Nd TDM: 1.6–1.9 Ga), biotite granite (894 ± 10, εHf(t): −4 to −11, Hf TDM: 1.9–2.3 Ga; εNd(t): −1.6 to −8.0, Nd TDM: 1.4–2.2 Ga), and amazonite-bearing two-mica granite (εNd(t): −4.0; Nd TDM: 1.7 Ga); iv) rhyolite (905 ± 24 Ma; εHf(t): −1 to −8.7, Hf TDM: 1.8–2.2 Ga; εNd(t): +3.1, Nd TDM: 1.1 Ga) and subvolcanic silica-undersaturated trachyte (912 ± 13 Ma, εHf(t): −14 to −18, Hf TDM: 2.5–2.7 Ga; εNd(t): +0.3, Nd TDM: 1.2 Ga), also with ferroan A-type signature. Our integrated petrogenetic model envisages mantle-derived magmas (ultramafic and mafic rocks) evolved by assimilation-fractional crystallization to felsic subvolcanic and volcanic rocks, interacting with granitic magmas produced by crustal anatexis (biotite-amphibole granite) and subsequently fractionated (biotite granite) and highly fractionated (two-mica granite) with the involvement of F-rich fluids up to subvolcanic levels.Item Cyclic sediment deposition by orbital forcing in the Miocene wetland of western Amazonia? : new insights from a multidisciplinary approach.(2022) Hoorn, Carina; Kukla, Tyler; Bogotá Angel, Raul Giovanni; Soelen, Els van; González Arango, Catalina; Wesselingh, Frank P.; Vonhof, Hubert; Val, Pedro Fonseca de Almeida e; Morcote Rios, Gaspar; Roddaz, Martin; Dantas, Elton Luiz; Santos, Roberto Ventura; Damsté, Jaap S. Sinninghe; Kim, Jung-Hyun; Morley, Robert J.In the Miocene, a large wetland system extended from the Andean foothills into western Amazonia. This system has no modern analogue and the driving mechanisms are not yet fully understood. Dynamic topography and Andean uplift are thought to have controlled deposition, with allocyclic base level changes driven by eustasy and orbital forcing also playing a role. In this study we investigate the presumed orbital cyclicity that controlled sediment deposition, while also assessing sediment source and biomes in the Miocene wetland. We do this by integrating lithological, palyno- logical, malacological and geochemical data from the Los Chorros site (Amazon River, Colombia), and by placing our data in a sequence stratigraphic framework. In this sequence biostratigraphic evaluation, the Los Chorros succession is visualized to be composed of a series of flood-fill packages, with a rapid initial flood, marine-influenced conditions at the time of maximum flood, followed by a longer regressive infill phase. Based on the palynology we could differ- entiate local vegetation, such as palm swamps, from regional origin such as terra firme vegetation (non-flooded Amazonian forest) and Andean montane forest, while from sediment geochemistry we could separate local and regional sediment sources. At the times of flooding, oligotrophic and eutrophic aquatic conditions alternatively characterized the wetland, as is shown by the presence of algae, floating ferns, and mollusc assemblages, while intervening subaquatic debris points to proximal submerged lowlands. In the lower 20 m of the section, marine in- fluences are intermittently evident and shown by short-lived maxima of mangrove pollen, foraminiferal test linings, dinoflagellate cysts, coastal mollusc species, and an episodic decline in terrestrial biomarkers. The upper 5 m of the section is characterized by floodplain forest taxa with a diversity in tropical rain forest taxa and relatively few lacustrine indicators. These marine, mangrove, and lacustrine indicators suggest that the outcrops at Los Chorros represent predominant marine-influenced lacustrine conditions during periods of sea level highstand. The sequence biostratigraphic evaluation further points to eight 41 kyr obliquity-driven depositional cycles, with rapid phases of transgression. Mangrove elements would have colonised within the timeframe of each sea level rise. Based on this relative age constraint and comparison to regional records, deposition likely took place prior to the 13.8 Myr global sea level fall, and most likely during the period just after 14.5 Ma, between Middle Miocene Climatic Optimum (MMCO; 17–14 Ma) and Middle Miocene Climate Transition (MMCT; 14.7–13.8 Ma). Palynological evidence further suggests that to the west, surface elevation ranged from ~1000 up to ~3500 m and hosted protoparamo vegetation, the oldest yet reported and in agreement with predictions from molecular studies. In contrast, contemporaneous sites to the northeast of the wetland consisted of fluvial and cratonic formations, as shown by their Nd and Sr isotopic sediment signature. In summary, our data lead to an improved understanding of how geological and astronomical mechanisms controlled the floral and faunal distribution and controlled sediment deposition in western Amazonia during the middle Miocene. As Miocene conditions strongly contrast with modern western Amazonia, our data provide an important context for the deep time history and evolution of the modern western Amazon rainforest.Item New U-Pb (SHRIMP) and first Hf isotope constraints on the Tonian (1000-920 Ma) Cariris Velhos event, Borborema Province, NE Brazil.(2020) Caxito, Fabrício de Andrade; Santos, Lauro Cézar Montefalco de Lira; Uhlein, Alexandre; Dantas, Elton Luiz; Alkmim, Ana Ramalho; Lana, Cristiano de CarvalhoOrthogneisses associated with metavolcanosedimentary successions related to the 1000 – 920 Ma Cariris Velhos event occur mainly in a ca. 700 km-long sigmoidal-shaped belt that crosscuts the Transversal Zone of the Borborema Province and extends to the fold belts located in its southern or external zone (part of the Riacho do Pontal and Sergipano orogens). Despite its importance, the tectonic setting and the role of those rocks in the geological evolution of the Borborema Province are contentious and not yet well understood. New zircon U-Pb SHRIMP data on an augen-gneiss sill of the Afeição Suite intruding mica-schists mapped as part of the Santa Filomena Complex yielded a Concordia Age of 974 ± 11 Ma, indicating that at least part of the metasedimentary rocks in the internal zone of the Riacho do Pontal Orogen are Tonian or older and possibly related to the Cariris Velhos event. Hf-in-zircon isotope data are presented for the first time for Cariris Velhos-related ortho-derived rocks of the Afeição Suite. Analyzed samples yielded εHf(t) in a narrow range between -1.51 and +2.41, with associated TDMHf of 1.6-1.4 Ga, similar to previously obtained Nd isotope data with εNd(t) = -1.0 to +3.1 and TDMNd of 1.5-1.2 Ga. A possible scenario to explain both the geochemical features and the moderately juvenile to slightly evolved, near-chondritic Hf and Nd isotope signatures is a continental arc setting, where fractionated melts produced in the supra-subduction zone mantle wedge carrying a Tonian juvenile signature became contaminated with discrete amounts of Archean-Paleoproterozoic continental crust during ascent, producing Mesoproterozoic model ages which represent the mixture of those two end-members.Item Neoproterozoic magmatic arc volcanism in the Borborema Province, NE Brazil : possible flare-ups and lulls and implications for western Gondwana assembly.(2020) Caxito, Fabrício de Andrade; Basto, Camila Franco; Santos, Lauro Cézar Montefalco de Lira; Dantas, Elton Luiz; Medeiros, Vladimir Cruz de; Dias, Tatiana Gonçalves; Barrote, Vitor Rodrigues; Hagemann, Steffen; Alkmim, Ana Ramalho; Lana, Cristiano de CarvalhoNew zircon U-Pb (SHRIMP and LA-ICPMS), elemental and Nd-Sr geochemistry data on rhyolitic metavolcanic and metavolcaniclastic rocks of NE Brazil characterize widespread arc-related phenomena during the Neoproterozoic, related to the Conceição-type or Stage I plutonic rocks. U-Pb zircon dating pinpoint the main phase of magmatic activity at ca. 635-600 Ma in the 700-km long sigmoidal Piancó-Alto Brígida domain, but other important flareups might have taken place at ca. 670-690, 730-760, 810-820 and 860-880 Ma. A comprehensive compilation of detrital zircon data from metavolcanosedimentary successions of the entire Borborema Province (n=5532) confirms the occurrence of a quasi-continuum Neoproterozoic spectra punctuated by peaks at those same age intervals separated by minor lulls. Low Th/U rims of zircon crystals dated at ca. 577 Ma provide an estimate of the age of regional transpressional metamorphism. Samples of all age ranges are mostly calc-alkaline, magnesian and peraluminous, with moderately to highly fractionated LREE enrichment, negative Nb-Ta anomalies akin to convergent settings, and plot mainly within the volcanic arc field in tectonic discrimination diagrams. Nd-Sr isotope systematics indicate the involvement of juvenile Neoproterozoic melts from the mantle wedge, which upon mixing with Archean-Paleoproterozoic basement and contamination with the host metasedimentary rocks yield Mesoproterozoic TDM mainly at 1.14-1.44 Ga, near-chondritic εNd(t) and 87Sr/86Sri 0.703-0.710.We put forward a model involving a major continental back-arc zone related to the development of the Conceição magmatic arc, akin to the modern-day Taupo volcanic zone of New Zealand, crosscutting NE Brazil and presumably continuing through the schist belts of Nigeria and Cameroon. The main magmatic flare ups might have been induced by extra-arc phenomena, such as collision of the West African paleocontinent with the northwestern Borborema edge due to closure of the exterior Goiás-Pharusian Ocean, force-speeding subduction in the interior V-shaped oceanic basins that constituted the Transnordestino-Central African Ocean and generating clockwise windshield-wiper-like rotation of the blocks back towards the São Francisco-Congo paleocontinent in a complete Wilson Cycle.Item Two generations of mafic dyke swarms in the Southeastern Brazilian coast : reactivation of structural lineaments during the gravitational collapse of the Araçuaí-Ribeira Orogen (500 Ma) and West Gondwana breakup (140 Ma).(2020) Mendes, Raíssa Santiago; Caxito, Fabrício de Andrade; Neves, Mirna Aparecida; Dantas, Elton Luiz; Medeiros Júnior, Edgar Batista de; Queiroga, Gláucia NascimentoMafic dyke swarms emplaced in regional NW-SE trending structures crosscutting the Precambrian basement in the Southeastern Brazilian coast are commonly interpreted as associated to West Gondwana breakup. Recently, however, U-Pb dating suggested that at least some of those dykes were emplaced earlier, at ca. 500–490 Ma, during the gravitational collapse of the Araçuaí Orogen. In order to clarify this issue, we studied dykes from the southern Espírito Santo State. Our results indicate that dykes emplaced in the same regional lineaments can be separated into two distinct groups, according to petrographic, geochemical, isotopic and geochronological characteristics. Group 1 is tholeiitic, with 87Sr/86Sr(i) of 0.7041–0.7065, εNd(t) of −3.4 to −5.5 and TDM ages between 0.8 and 1.5 Ga. Zircon crystals from a dyke of this group yielded the first robust lower Cretaceous U-Pb age for mafic dykes of SE Brazil with a Concordia age of 141.9 ± 1.9 Ma and εHf(t) in a range of −5.5 to −7.9. Group 2 is alkaline, shows higher 87Sr/86Sr(i) of 0.7064–0.7088, evolved εNd(t) < −12 and older TDM ages of 1.7–1.9 Ga. The youngest zircon crystals from a dyke of this group yielded a Concordia age of 504.7 ± 6.9 Ma and εHf(t) of −18.9. Our results suggest that the regional NW-SE trending lineaments of the Brazilian coast were active in at least three episodes, serving as conduits for mafic magmatism of distinct sources and tectonic settings: First, in the Cambrian, during the Araçuaí-Ribeira Orogen collapse, when they served as conduits for both the post-tectonic G5 Supersuite (530–490 Ma; composed of granitic and mafic plutons) and the alkaline dykes of Group 2; second, during the lower Cretaceous breakup of West Gondwana, when they served as conduits for the tholeiitic dykes of Group 1, synchronous to syn-rift evolution of the Phanerozoic Brazilian coast basins; and third, during the Cenozoic, when they were reactivated as normal brittle faults.Item A Neoproterozoic hyper-extended margin associated with Rodinia's demise and Gondwana's build-up : the Araguaia Belt, central Brazil.(2019) Hodel, F.; Trindade, Ricardo Ivan Ferreira da; Macouin, Melina; Meira, V.T.; Dantas, Elton Luiz; Paixão, Marco Antonio Pires; Rospabé, M.; Castro, Marco Paulo de; Queiroga, Gláucia Nascimento; Alkmim, Ana Ramalho; Lana, Cristiano de CarvalhoThe Araguaia Belt encloses a poorly constrained Pan-African (Brasiliano Cycle) continental suture marked by a series of (~750 Ma) ophiolitic units which, when properly characterized, could provide important informations on its geological history, closely linked with the Rodinia demise and further western Gondwana amalgamation. We present new bulk-rock and mineral major and trace element compositions for these ultramafic and mafic units. They mainly consist in fully serpentinized harzburgite, scarce dunite lenses and chromite pods, tectonically overlain by basaltic pillow lavas. Low Al2O3/SiO2 ratios (0.01 to 0.06), rather highMgO concentrations (42.28 to 45.29 wt%) and spinels' Cr# and Mg# ratios comprised between 0.36 and 0.51 and 0.59 and 0.72, respectively, indicate a depleted oceanic-like protolith. MORB-peridotite interactions are evidenced both by pyroxenite, olivine gabbro and diabase occurrences in the serpentinites and by high TiO2 (up to 0.42 wt%) contents in spinels from some Serra do Quatipuru serpentinites. These observations support that the Araguaia Belt ophiolitic bodies are the remnants of the upper mantle section of a MOR or subcontinental lithosphere. The serpentinites wholerock REE content can be modeled as resulting from a dry partial melting involving 14 to 24% of melt extraction, coupled with refertilization by fertile melts, generated deeper in the mantle. Such an oceanic-like setting is also supported by the N-MORB signature of Serra do Tapa and Morro do Agostinho pillow lavas basalts. All together, these results tend to infirm the supra-subduction zone (SSZ) setting previously proposed for these ophiolitic units. Important LILE, B and Li enrichments in the serpentinites likely result from a metasomatic event involving sediments-derived fluids that occurred during the obduction of the units on the Amazonian Craton. Our results combined with (1) the apparent scarcity of igneous crustal rocks, (2) the proximal nature of the metasedimentary rocks hosting the ophiolitic units, and (3) the occurrences of Amazonian Craton fragments eastward of the ophiolitic bodies, allow us to propose that the Araguaia Belt comprises a fossil ocean-continent transition (OCT) accreted on the eastern border of the Amazonian Craton.Item The Ediacaran Rio Doce magmatic arc revisited, Araçuaí-Ribeira orogenic system, SE Brazil.(2016) Tedeschi, Mahyra; Novo, Tiago Amâncio; Soares, Antônio Pedrosa; Dussin, Ivo Antonio; Tassinari, Colombo; Silva, Luiz Carlos da; Gonçalves, Leonardo Eustáquio da Silva; Alkmim, Fernando Flecha de; Lana, Cristiano de Carvalho; Dantas, Elton Luiz; Medeiros, Silvia Regina de; Campos, Cristina Maria Pinheiro de; Corrales, Felipe; Heilbron, Monica da Costa Pereira LavalleDescribed half a century ago, the Galil eia tonalite represents a milestone in the discovery of plate margin magmatic arcs in the Araçuaí-Ribeira orogenic system (southeastern Brazil). In the 1990's, analytical studies on the Galil eia tonalite finally revealed the existence of a Late Neoproterozoic calc-alkaline magmatic arc in the Araçuaí orogen. Meanwhile, the name Rio Doce magmatic arc was applied to calc-alkaline plutons found in the Araçuaí-Ribeira boundary. After those pioneer studies, the calc-alkaline plutons showing a pre-collisional volcanic arc signature and age between 630 Ma and 585 Ma have been grouped in the G1 supersuite, corresponding to the Rio Doce arc infrastructure. Here, we revisit the Rio Doce arc with our solid field knowledge of the region and a robust analytical database (277 lithochemical analyses, and 47 UePb, 53 SmeNd, 25 87Sr/86Sr and 7 LueHf datasets). The G1 supersuite consists of regionally deformed, tonalitic to granodioritic batholiths and stocks, generally rich in melanocratic to mesocratic enclaves and minor gabbroic to dioritic plutons. Gabbroic to dioritic enclaves show evidence of magma mixing processes. The lithochemical and isotopic signatures clearly reveal a volcanic arc formed on a continental margin setting. Melts from a Rhyacian basement form the bulk of the magma produced, whilst gabbroic plutons and enclaves record involvement of mantle magmas in the arc development. Tonalitic stocks (UePb age: 618e575 Ma, εNd(t): 5.7 to 7.8, Nd TDM ages: 1.28e1.68 Ga, 87Sr/86Sr(t): 0.7059e0.7118, and εHf(t): 5.2 to 11.7) form the northernmost segment of the Rio Doce arc, which dies out in the ensialic sector of the Araçuaí orogen. At arc eastern and central zones, several batholiths (e.g., Alto Capim, Baixo Guandu, Galil eia, Muniz Freire, S~ao Vítor) record a long-lasting magmatic history (632e580 Ma; εNd(t): 5.6 to 13.3; Nd TDM age: 1.35e1.80 Ga; 87Sr/86Sr(t): 0.7091 e0.7123). At arc western border, the magmatic evolution started with gabbro-dioritic and tonalitic plutons (e.g., Chaves pluton, UePb age: 599 ± 15 Ma, εNd(t): 4.8 to 6.8, Nd TDM ages: 1.48e1.68 Ga, 87Sr/86Sr(t): 0.7062e0.7068, and εHf(t): 4.3 to 9.7; and Brasil^andia pluton, UePb age: 581 ± 11 Ma, εNd(t): 8.2 to 10.2, Nd TDM ages: 1.63e1.68 Ga, 87Sr/86Sr(t): 0.7088e0.7112, εHf(t): 12.3 to 14.9),followed by late granodioritic intrusions (e.g., Guarataia pluton, UePb age: 576 ± 9 Ma, εNd(t): 12.52 to 13.11, Nd TDM age: 1.74e2.06 Ga, 87Sr/86Sr(t): 0.7104e0.7110, εHf(t): 12.9 to 21.6). The Muria e batholith (UePb age: 620e592 Ma, εNd(t): 8.2 to 13.6, Nd TDM age: 1.41e1.88 Ga) and the Conceiç~ao da Boa Vista (586 ± 7 Ma) and Serra do Valentim (605 ± 8 Ma) stocks represent a segment of the Rio Doce arc correlated to the Serra da Bolívia and Marceleza complexes, making the link between the Araçuaí and Ribeira orogenic domains. We suggest three phases of arc development: i) eastward migration of arc front (632e605 Ma), ii) widespread magma production in the whole arc (605e585 Ma), and iii) late plutonism in the western arc region (585e575 Ma). Usual processes of volcanic arc development, like subduction of oceanic lithosphere under a continental margin, followed by asthenosphere ascent related to slab retreating and break-off may explain the Rio Doce arc evolution.Item Late Neoproterozoic–Cambrian granitic magmatism in the Araçuaí orogen (Brazil), the eastern brazilian pegmatite province and related mineral resources.(2011) Soares, Antônio Carlos Pedrosa; Campos, Cristina Maria Pinheiro de; Noce, Carlos Maurício; Silva, Luiz Carlos da; Novo, Tiago Amâncio; Roncato Júnior, Jorge Geraldo; Medeiros, Silvia Regina de; Castañeda, Cristiane; Queiroga, Gláucia Nascimento; Dantas, Elton Luiz; Dussin, Ivo Antonio; Alkmim, Fernando Flecha deThe Araçuí orogen extends from the eastern edge of the São Francisco craton to the Atlantic margin, in southeastern Brazil. Orogenic igneous rocks, formed from c. 630 to c. 480 Ma, cover one third of this huge area, building up the Eastern Brazilian Pegmatite Province and the most important dimension stone province of Brazil. G1 supersuite (630–585 Ma) mainly consists of tonalite to granodiorite, with mafic to dioritic facies and enclaves, representing a continental calc-alkaline magmatic arc. G2 supersuite mostly includes S-type granites formed during the syn-collisional stage (585–560 Ma), from relatively shallow two-mica granites and related gem-rich pegmatites to deep garnet-biotite granites that are the site of yellow dimension stone deposits. The typical G3 rocks (545–525 Ma) are non-foliated garnet-cordierite leucogranites, making up autochthonous patches and veins. At the post-collisional stage (530–480 Ma), G4 and G5 supersuites were generated. The S-type G4 supersuite mostly consists of garnet-bearing two-mica leucogranites that are the source of many pegmatites mined for tourmalines and many other gems, lithium (spodumene) ore and industrial feldspar. G5 supersuite, consisting of high-K–Fe calc-alkaline to alkaline granitic and/or charnockitic to dioritic/noritic intrusions, is the source of aquamarine-topaz-rich pegmatites but mainly of a large dimension stone production.Item Age of the Ribeirão da Folha ophiolite, Araçuaí orogen : the U-Pb zircon (LA-ICPMS) dating of a plagiogranite.(2007) Queiroga, Gláucia Nascimento; Soares, Antônio Carlos Pedrosa; Noce, Carlos Maurício; Alkmim, Fernando Flecha de; Pimentel, Márcio Martins; Dantas, Elton Luiz; Martins, Maximiliano de Souza; Castañeda, Cristiane; Suita, Marcos Tadeu de Freitas; Prichard, HazelO Orógeno Araçuaí, de idade neoproterozóica, se estende da margem sudeste do Cráton do São Francisco ao Oceano Atlântico, entre os paralelos 15° e 21° S. O estágio rifte da bacia precursora do Orógeno Araçuaí é balizado pela idade U-Pb SHRIMP de ca. 875 Ma dada por granitos anorogênicos. A evolução orogênica é subdividida nos estágios pré-colisional (ca. 630-585 Ma), sin-colisional (ca. 585-560 Ma), tardi-colisional (ca. 560-530 Ma) e pós-colisional (ca. 530-490 Ma). Remanescentes de rochas magmáticas de assoalho oceânico, localizados no setor central deste orógeno, têm sido descritos na literatura geológica desde 1990. O mais completo destes registros oceânicos é o ofiolito de Ribeirão da Folha, situado nos arredores da vila homônima, no município de Minas Novas, MG. O ofiolito de Ribeirão da Folha é uma associação litológica tectonicamente desmembrada, composta por fatias de rochas meta-ultramáficas e metamáficas que foram embutidas por empurrões em pacotes da Formação Ribeirão da Folha (unidade distal do Grupo Macaúbas). Esta formação, na área enfocada, consiste de micaxistos e cianita-grafita xistos (pelitos pelágicos), com intercalações de metacherts sulfetados, diopsiditos sulfetados, corpos de sulfetos maciços, formações ferríferas bandadas dos tipos óxido, sulfeto e silicato, e orto-anfibolitos finos (metabasaltos), metamorfisados nas zonas da cianita da fácies anfibolito médio. Dados geotermobarométricos dos micaxistos peraluminosos revelaram condições metamórficas em torno de 550º C a 5,5 kbar. As assinaturas litoquímicas das rochas metamáficas e meta-ultramáficas revelam afinidade ofiolítica e origem em assoalho oceânico. Os dados isotópicos Sm-Nd destas rochas mostram valores positivos de epsilon Nd (+3 a +7), e as idades modelo e isocrônica sugerem desenvolvimento de litosfera oceânica durante o Neoproterozóico. Todas as tentativas anteriores de recuperação de zircão a partir de volumosas amostras das rochas metamáficas foram infrutíferas. Contudo, corpos leucocráticos semelhantes a plagiogranito foram reconhecidos poucos anos atrás e se tornaram um dos principais alvos da tese de doutorado da primeira autora. Estes corpos ocorrem sob a forma de veios irregulares com dimensões milimétricas a centimétricas (até 50 cm), e são encaixados por orto-anfibolito bandado de granulação média a grossa (metadolerito a metagabro). Os corpos leucocráticos consistem de metaplagiogranito foliado, composto essencialmente por plagioclásio cálcico com bordas albíticas, quartzo, hornblenda e epidoto, com titanita, sulfeto, apatita e zircão como os principais minerais acessórios. Os cristais de zircão da amostra de plagiogranito são euédricos e muito límpidos, e mostram morfologia prismática elongada (3:1), sugerindo origem magmática. Análises U-Pb por LA-ICPMS (Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Mass Spectrometry) foram realizadas em dezoito cristais de zircão e mostram resultados concordantes, indicando idade de cristalização magmática de 660 ± 29 Ma. Esta idade baliza a época de geração de crosta oceânica na bacia precursora do Orógeno Araçuaí. O espalhamento de algumas das análises ao longo da curva concórdia sugere perda de Pb devido ao metamorfismo de fácies anfibolito em ca. 580 Ma. A idade de ca. 660 Ma plagiogranito precede a maior idade U-Pb (ca. 630 Ma) de tonalitos deformados do arco magmático pré-colisional, bem como a idade U-Pb (ca. 582 Ma) dos granitos sincolisionais mais antigos.