U-Pb (LA-ICP-MS) of detrital zircon and whole rock Nd and geochemical constraints on the provenance, depositional age and tectonic setting of the metasedimentary Piriá Basin, northern Brazil: implications for the evolution of the Gurupi Belt

• Published in: Brazilian journal of geology 2016-06, Vol.46 (suppl 1), p.123-144
• Main Authors: Lopes, Elem Cristina dos Santos, Klein, Evandro Luiz, Moura, Candido Augusto Veloso, Lucas, Fernando Rodrigo dos Anjos, Pinheiro, Bruno Luiz Silva, Rodrigues, Joseneusa Brilhante, Simas, Margarete Wagner
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Bacias pós-orogênicas; Ciclo Brasiliano/Pan-africano; Cinturão Gurupi; Cráton São Luís; GEOLOGY; GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY; Proveniência; Sedimentologia
• ISSN: 2317-4889; 2317-4692; 2317-4889
• DOI: 10.1590/2317-4889201620150015

The Piriá Basin (Piriá Formation) is a hemi-graben shaped basin that developed over Precambrian rocks of the Gurupi Belt. The lithological content comprises four interfingered lithofacies: (1) arkose and greywacke with pelite layers, (2) laminated siltstones and pelites, (3) arkose with hummocky stratification, and (4) oligomictic conglomerate. This sequence was formed in alluvial fans (conglomerate), and fluvial systems (arkose, greywacke, siltstones and pelites) that were established and evolved during the migration of the subsidence. The sedimentary sequence underwent anquimetamorphism and very weak tectonic deformation. U-Pb analyses of detrital zircon set the maximum depositional age at 591 Ma and indicate several sediment sources, that range in age from the Neoproterozoic to the Archean. The main sources are from the Rhyacian, which is the main period of continental crust formation in the São Luís cratonic fragment and the basement of the Gurupi Belt. Neoproterozoic sources were important in the eastern segment of the basin. Ages from unknown sources in the region so far have also been recorded. Combined, the U-Pb zircon data, the whole-rock geochemical and Sm-Nd results, and the petrographic information revealed proximal felsic to intermediate provenance, in addition to recycled sedimentary sources. As a whole, our data suggest that the Piriá Formation was deposited in a post-orogenic basin related to the final stage of evolution of the Brasiliano cycle of orogenies, which built up the Gurupi Belt. RESUMO: A Bacia do Piriá (Formação Piriá) é um rifte com forma de hemi-graben desenvolvido sobre rochas pré-cambrianas do Cinturão Gurupi. O conteúdo litológico se distribui em quatro litofácies que ocorrem interdigitadas: (1) arcóseos e grauvacas com níveis de pelitos, (2) siltitos e pelitos laminados, (3) arcóseos com estrutura hummocky, e (4) conglomerado oligomítico. Esse conjunto se formou em leques aluviais (conglomerados) e em sistema fluvial (arcóseos, grauvacas, siltitos e pelitos) que se estabeleceu e evoluiu à medida que a subsidência avançou e sofreu anquimetamorfismo e deformação tectônica muito leve. Análises U-Pb em zircão detrítico estabelecem idade máxima para a sedimentação em 591 Ma e indicam fontes detríticas com idades muito variáveis, do Neoproterozoico ao Arqueano. As fontes principais são do período Riaciano, que representa o principal período de formação de crosta continental no Fragmento Cratônico São Luís e no embasamento do Cin