Petrology of Teofilândia granitoids: An example of 2.1 Ga crustal accretion in the São Francisco Craton (Bahia, Brazil)

• Published in: Journal of South American earth sciences 2017-07, Vol.76, p.137-151
• Main Authors: Nascimento, H.S., Nédélec, Anne, Bouchez, Jean-Luc
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Brazil; Granitoid; Paleoproterozoic; São Francisco craton; TTG
• ISSN: 0895-9811; 1873-0647
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jsames.2017.01.011

Teofilândia granitoids are representative of the Paleoproterozoic plutonic rocks, which intruded the Serrinha block, an Archean crustal fragment of the Sao Francisco Craton (Bahia, Brazil). Three plutons were emplaced, the Teofilândia granodiorite, the Barrocas trondhjemite and the Santa Rosa granite, respectively dated at 2130, 2127 and 2073 Ma. The two first plutons are calc-alkaline rocks following a trondhjemitic trend. They resemble Archean TTGs (tonalites-trondhjemites-granodiorites) by their major and trace element compositions and especially by their fractionated REE patterns, with very low HREE contents. These juvenile magmas resulted from partial melting of a young mafic protolith, likely represented by the nearby Rio Itapicuru greenstone belt. Barrocas trondhjemite and Teofilândia granodiorite derive from similar sources, possibly at different depths and with a different degree of melting. The rocks were deformed at high temperature during the Trans-Amazonian collision and are therefore pre-collisional and ascribed to a subduction stage. The younger Santa Rosa pluton is a small, syn-to post-collisional granite that derived from anatexis of the Archean crust. It is representative of a second, volumetrically minor, plutonic episode of potassic, shoshonitic or alkaline affinities. The large amount of 2.1 Ga granitoids emplaced in Brazil as well as in the West African craton, suggests that, at that time, a global event of possible mantle origin was responsible for the intense magmatic activity that involved both crustal accretion and crustal reworking in many places of the world. •Teofilândia granodiorite and Barrocas trondhjemite represent TTG magmatism at 2.1 Ga.•They derive from partial melting of a hydrous mafic source.•Warm subduction is the suggested geological setting.•The younger Santa Rosa granite results from melting of an old crustal source.•Intense magmatic activity occurred worldwide at 2.1 Ga.