Thermal history of the Pan-African/Brasiliano Borborema Province of northeast Brazil deduced from 40Ar/39Ar analysis

Tectonophysics

Volumn 285, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 103-117

  Corsini, M ^a   De Figueiredo, L Lambert ^a   Caby, R ^b   Feraud G ^a   Ruffet, G ^a   Vauchez, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^b UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

Brasiliano orogeny; Shear zones; Thermochronology

Indexed keywords

BRASILIANO OROGENY; COOLING HISTORY; SHEAR ZONE;

BRAZIL, PARAIBA STATE, BORBOREMA;

EID: 0031861294     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(97)00192-3     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Black, R., Latouche, L., Liégeois, J.P., Caby, R., Bertrand, J.M., 1994. Pan-African displaced terranes in the Tuareg shield (central Sahara). Geology 22, 641-644.
2. Cahy, R., 1989. Precambrian terranes of Benin-Nigeria and northeast Brazil an Kongur Shan normal fault: type example of mountain building assisted by extension (Karakoram fault, eastern Pamir). Geology 22, 707-710.
3. Caby, R., Sial, A., Arthaud, M., Vauchez, A., 1991. Crustal evolution and the Brasiliano orogeny in Northeast Brazil. In: Dallmeyer, R.D., Lecorché, J.P. (Eds.), The West African Orogens and Circum Atlantic Correlatives. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 373-397.
4. Caby, R., Arthaud, M., Archanjo, C.J., 1995. Lithostratigraphy and petrostructural characterization of supracrustal units in the Brasiliano Belt of northeast Brazil: geodynamic implication. J. S. Am. Earth Sci. 8, 3-4.
5. Corsini, M., 1995. Géométrie, cinématique et signification tectonique des systèmes de décrochements ductiles intracontinentaux de la province Borborema (NE Brésil). Geodin. Acta 8 (3), 129-141.
6. Corsini, M., Vauchez, A., Archanjo, C.J., Jardim de Sá, E.F., 1991. Strain transfer at a continental scale from a transcurrent shear zone to a transpressional fold belt: the Patos-Serido belt system (northeastern Brazil). Geology 19, 586-589.
7. Corsini, M., Vauchez, A., Amaro, V., 1992. Relais de cisaillement ductiles transcurrents à l'échelle continentale: exemple de la Province de Borborema (NE Brésil). C.R. Acad. Sci., Paris 314 (8), 845-850.
8. 39Ar et histoire P-T-t des micaschistes englobant le massif gabbro-granitique d'Acari (Brasiliano), ceinture mobile du Sèrido (NE du Brésil). Unpublished Doc. Thesis, Louvain.
9. Dada, S.S., Lancelot, J.R., Briqueu, L., 1989. Age and origin of the annular charnockitic complex at Toro, Northern Nigeria: U-Pb and Rb-Sr evidence. J. Afr. Earth Sci. 9, 227-234.
10. 39Ar analysis of biotite and hornblende across the Grenvillan metamorphic gradient in southwestern Labrador. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 47, 413-428.
11. De Souza, Z.S., Martin, H., Macedo, M.H.F., Peucat, J.J., Jardim de Sà, E.F., 1993. Un segment de croûte continentale juvénile d'âge protérozoïque inférieur: le complexe de Caico (Rio Grande do Norte, NE-Brésil). C.R. Acad. Sci., Paris 316, 201-208.
12. 39Ar incremental heating plateaus for biotites with excess argon. Chem. Geol. (Isot. Geosci. Sect.) 1, 3-21.
13. Gapais, D., Lagarde, J.-L., Le Corre, C., Audren, C., Jegouzo, P., Casas Sainz, A., Van Den Driessche, J., 1993. La zone de cisaillement de Quiberon: témoin d'extension de la chaîne varisque en Bretagne méridionale au Carbonifère. C.R. Acad. Sci., Paris 316, 1123-1129.
14. 39Ar age spectra and the thermal history of the region. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 55, 123-149.
15. 40Ar in biotite: temperature, pressure and compositional effects. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 49, 2461-2468.
16. Jardim de Sá, E.F., Macedo, M.H.F., Legrand, J.M., McReath, I., Galindo, A.C., Sá, J.M., 1987. Proterozoic granitoids in a polycyclic setting: the Seridó region, NE Brazil. Int. Symp. Granites and Associated Mineralizations, Extended Abstr., pp. 103-110.
17. Jardim de Sá, E.F., Macedo, M.H.F., Falcao Torres, H.H., Kawashita, K., 1988. Geochronology of metaplutonics and the evolution of supracrustal belts in the Borborema Province, NE Brazil. Congresso Latino-Americano de Geologia, Belem.
18. Lardeaux, J.M., Spana, M.I., 1990. Tectonic significance of P-T-t paths in metamorphic rocks: examples from ancient and modern orogenic belts. Mem. Soc. Geol. Ital. 45, 51-69.
19. Leloup, P.H., Kienast, J.-R., 1993. High-temperature metamorphism in a major strike-slip shear zone: the Ailao Shan/Red River, People's Republic of China. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 118, 213-234.
20. Leterrier, J., Jardim de Sà, E.F., Bertrand, J.M., Pin, C., 1994. Ages U-Pb sur zircon de granitoïdes brasilianos de la ceinture du Serido (Province Borborema, NE Brésil). C.R. Acad. Sci., Paris 318, 1505-1511.
21. Liégeois, J.P., Black, R., Navez, J., Latouche, L., 1994. Early and late Pan-African orogenies in the Aïr assembly of terranes (Tuareg shield, Niger). Precambrian Res. 67, 59-88.
22. Lima, E.S., 1992. Metamorphic conditions in the Serido region of northeastern Brazil during the Brasiliano cycle (Late Proterozoic). J. S. Am. Earth Sci. 5, 265-273.
23. Matte, P., 1991. Accretionnary history and crustal evolution of the Variscan belt in western Europe. Tectonophysics 196, 309-337.
24. 39Ar and petrostructural data from Ceará. Precambrian Res. 81, 241-264.
25. Pankhurst, R.J., Moorbath, S., Rex, D.C., Turner, G., 1973. Mineral age patterns in ca. 3700 my old rocks from West Greenland. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 20, 157-170.
26. 2O). Am. Mineral. 75, 367-380.
27. 39Ar analysis. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 48, 185-208.
28. 39Ar conventional and laser dating of biotites from the North Trégor Batholith. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 55, 1675-1688.
29. 39Ar laser probe study of Alpine micas (Sesia Zone, Western Alps, northern Italy). Chem. Geol. (Isotope Geoscience Section) 121, 327-343.
30. 39Ar continuous laser-probe study from the Dora-Maira nappe of the internal Western Alps, Italy. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 56, 2851-2872.
31. Sial, A.N., 1987. Granitic rocks of northeast Brazil. Proc. Int. Symp. Granite Assoc. Mineral., Salvador, pp. 103-110.
32. Spear, F.S., 1981. An experimental study of hornblende stability and compositional variability in amphibole. Am. J. Sci. 281, 697-734.
33. Tapponnier, P., Lacassin, R., Leloup, P.H., Shärer, U., Daalai, Z., Haiwei, W., Xiaohan, L., Shaocheng, J., Lianshang, Z., Jiayou, Z., 1990. The Ailao Shan/Red River metamorphic belt: Tertiary left-lateral shear between Indochina and South China. Nature 343, 431-437.
34. Tubosun, I.A., Lancelot, J.R., Rahaman, M.A., Ocan, O., 1984. U-Pb Pan-African ages of two charnockite-granite associations from SW Nigeria. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 88, 188-195.
35. Vauchez, A., Neves, S.P., Caby, R., Corsini, M., Egydio-Sylva, M., Arthaud, M., Amaro, V., 1995. The Borborema shear zone system. J. S. Am. Earth Sci. 8, 247-266.
36. Villa, I.M., Puxeddu, M., 1994. Geochronology of the Larderello geothermal field: new data and the 'closure temperature' issue. Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 115, 415-426.