EM - Escola de Minas
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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 Detrital zircon U–Pb and Lu–Hf constraints on the age, provenance and tectonic setting of arc-related high-grade units of the transition zone of the Araçuaí and Ribeira orogens (SE Brazil).(2022) Mendes, Raíssa Santiago; Caxito, Fabrício de Andrade; Soares, Antônio Carlos Pedrosa; Neves, Aparecida; Calegari, Salomão Silva; Lana, Cristiano de CarvalhoSedimentary basins with epiclastic and volcanoclastic components are important geotectonic components for understanding the complex evolution of orogenic systems. The age, provenance and tectonic setting of ancient basins are, however, often hard to constrain, especially in the high-grade core of ancient mountain belts where original sedimentary and stratigraphic relations have been largely obliterated by deformation and metamorphism. In this case, analytical tools such as whole-rock geochemistry and U–Pb and Lu–Hf analyses on detrital zircon grains can be deployed to unravel the provenance and tectonic setting of high-grade metasedimentary and metavolcaniclastic units. Here, we apply these analytical tools on samples from gneissic paleosomes of migmatites found in the eastern transition zone between the Neoproterozoic–Eopaleozoic Araçuaí and Ribeira orogens (southeastern Brazil). The studied paleosomes comprise peraluminous paragneiss rich in biotite, garnet and sillimanite, metaluminous hornblende-bearing gneiss free of peraluminous silicates, and intermediate terms between these compositions, all of them with geochemical characteristics pointing to sources located in magmatic arc systems. Overall, U–Pb data from detrital zircon grains bracket a maximum sedimentation age for all samples between 600 and 627 Ma, while εHf(t): +5.7 to − 18.7 and Hf TDM model ages of 1.0–2.2 Ga suggest moderately juvenile to evolved sources for the gneiss protoliths. However, despite the similarity in age range, the analyzed samples show contrasting isotope data indicating significant variability in the source areas. Sample 7 only has grains with negative εHf (− 5.9 to − 18.7), most of them ranging in age from 708 Ma to 758 Ma, with very few older (1021–1143 Ma) and younger (642–651 Ma) zircons grains, indicating evolved crustal sources of distinct ages (e.g., the Late Tonian – Early Cryogenian South Bahia Alkaline Province, the Early Cryogenian magmatism found in the West Congo Belt, the Stenian to Early Tonian Espinhaço and Matadi-Noqui igneous rocks, and magmatic rocks of the early Rio Doce arc). Conversely, sample 13 has twenty grains with positive εHf values and ages between 602 and 758 Ma, suggesting sourcing from (meta)igneous rocks of the Rio Negro arc and their remelting products, and forty grains with negative εHf values with ages between 591 and 646 Ma suggesting magmatic sources in the Rio Doce arc. Additionally, the two youngest spot ages (553 Ma and 571 Ma) have highly negative εHf values (− 11.1 and − 16.4) suggesting their origin from collisional anatexis. Similarly, sample 12 shows detrital grains within the consistent time interval (ca. 596 Ma – 798 Ma) of the Rio Negro arc and Rio Doce arcs, reinforcing that the fragments of these arcs, or zircons that were inherited from these terranes, are potential sources to the sedimentary protoliths of the paragneisses. The regional scenario together with our field and analytical data, compared with data available in the literature, suggest the sedimentary protoliths of the studied samples filled orogenic basins related to the Rio Doce magmatic arc. Most detrital zircon ages are close to the maximum depositional age, a classical signature of orogenic basins related to magmatic arcs. The studied paragneiss unit correlates with the Nova Ven´ecia Complex, located on the intra-arc to back-arc zones of the Araçuaí orogen, and with the orogenic succession of the distal Andrelândia Group, shared by both the Araçuaí and Ribeira orogens. Furthermore, our data also suggest the juvenile Rio Negro - Serra da Prata arc system was either amalgamated with the Rio Doce arc or that fragments of these arcs were incorporated as unmelted xenoliths and xenocrystals within the Rio Doce arc rocks before ca. 614 Ma, providing key hints to unravel the evolution of the Araçuaí - Ribeira orogenic system (AROS) and its role in the Gondwana assembly.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.