The Flores Stock: An example of A-type granitic magmatism on Rio Piranhas-Seridó Domain, NE Borborema Province

Abstract

The Flores granitic stock intrudes paleoproterozoic gneissic related to Caicó Complex, in Rio Piranhas-Seridó Domain, North part of the Borborema Province, NE Brazil. This work focused on the petrological and geochemical characterization of its monzogranites. The Flores Stock comprises equigranular, leucocratic monzogranites, which are divide in two petrografic facies: i) medium grained, pink monzogranites; and ii) fine grained, gray to pink monzogranites. Locally we can find in this type dioritic enclaves displaying magmas coexistence features (mixing and migling), and ellipsoidal schlieren formed by magmatic convection. Mineralogically, the Stock is constitued by biotite as its main mafic; titanite, allanite, apatite, zircon, opaque, and as late minerals, fluorite, chlorite and saussurite, these late ones are interpreted as related to fluids in subsolidus stage. The studied monzogranites show high SiO₂ contents (> 71% wt%) and alkaline affinity with Na₂ O + K₂ O ~ 9,0%. Tectonic discriminant diagrams of tectonic environment suggest a typology of A-type granite related to a post-collisional environment, which is corroborated by U-Pb zircon crystallization age of 553±4 Ma. Thus, the Flores Stock is interpreted as emplaced in a late to post-tectonic stage of the Brasiliana / Pan-African Orogeny in the Borborema Province.