O Kimberlito Indaiá, situado 25 km a norte da cidade de Monte Carmelo, na região oeste de Minas Gerais, é intrusivo em granitóides cataclasados associados ao Grupo Araxá, na Faixa de Dobramentos Brasília. O corpo apresenta forma subcircular e diâmetro principal de 220 m na direção NE-SW; em sua porção NE ocorre uma intrusão de kamafugito associada de 120 m de diâmetro. A rocha exibe coloração cinza escura e textura inequigranular bem destacada, sendo constituída por uma matriz afanítica na qual estão dispersos macrocristais de olivina (abundantes), ilmenita, flogopita e piroxênio, além de xenólitos mantélicos e crustais de dimensões variadas. Os xenólitos mantélicos são constituídos, em ordem de abundância, por harzburgitos (41%), lherzolitos (37%), dunitos (14%), mica piroxenitos (6%) e xenólito polimítico (2%). Os harzburgitos, lherzolitos e dunitos exibem, além das fases primárias (olivina, enstatita e diopsídio), teores subordinados de espinélio, cromita, diopsídio, flogopita, ilmenita e raro anfibólio. A textura predominante é grossa (protogranular), ocorrendo subordinadamente as texturas granoblástica e porfiroclástica. Análises químicas por microssonda eletrônica revelaram que as fases silicáticas possuem valores Mg/(Mg+Fe) maiores em harzburgitos e dunitos e menores nos lherzolitos. Os mica piroxenitos (flogopita+enstatita+ilmenita) e os xenólitos polimíticos (olivina+diopsídio+ilmenita+flogopita) apresentam mineralogia mais complexa, possuindo em adição magnetita, perovskita, barita, zircão, badeleíta, pentlandita, galena e uma fase mineral rara ainda não identificada. As razões Mg/(Mg+Fe) das fases silicáticas são mais baixas que as dos xenólitos de peridotitos. As características químicas da flogopita e da ilmenita destes xenólitos indicam similaridades com os xenólitos da suíte MARID. A variedade textural dos xenólitos estudados, de grossa (protogranular) a granoblástica, é uma evidência de processos de recristalização por deformação mecânica. A aplicação de geotermômetros da literatura para os espinélio lherzolitos forneceu temperaturas de equilíbrio entre 655 a 908°C, em concordância com dados de outras intrusões do oeste mineiro. A presença de flogopita e ilmenita sob a forma de bolsões nos xenólitos de peridotitos, bem como nos mica piroxenitos e xenólitos polimíticos, são indicativos da atuação de processos de metassomatismo no manto da região de Monte Carmelo. / The Indaiá Kimberlite, located 25 km North of Monte Carmelo in the western Minas Gerais State, is intrusive in cataclased granitoids related to the Araxá Group, part of the Brasilia Fold Belt. The body has a subcircular 220-meter head-diameter shape (NE-SW); its an associated 120-meter diameter intrusion of kamafugite occurs in its NE portion. The rock is dark gray and displays prominent inequigranular texture, consisting of an aphanitic matrix in which macrocrystals of olivine (abundant), ilmenite, pyroxene and phlogopite, as well as mantle and crustal xenoliths of different sizes are dispersed. These mantle xenoliths are composed, in order of abundance, by harzburgites (41%), lherzolite (37%), dunite (14%), mica pyroxenite (6%) and polymictic xenolith (2%). Harzburgites, lherzolites and dunites exhibit, besides the main minerals (olivine, enstatite and diopside), small amounts of spinel, chromite, diopside, phlogopite, ilmenite and rare amphibole. The predominant texture is coarse (protogranular); subordinately, granoblastic and porfiroclastic textures are observed. Chemical analysis by electron microprobe showed that the silicate phases have higher values of Mg/(Mg+Fe) in harzburgites and dunites as compared to lherzolites. Mica pyroxenite (enstatite + phlogopite + ilmenite) and polymictic xenoliths (olivine + diopside + phlogopite + ilmenite) have more complex mineralogical features than the other xenoliths, showing in addition magnetite, perovskite, barite, zircon, baddeleyite, pentlandite, galena and a rare phase not yet identified. The Mg/(Mg+Fe) ratio in silicate phases are lower than in the peridotite xenoliths. The chemical characteristics of phlogopite and ilmenite of these xenoliths indicate similarities with the MARID suite xenoliths. The textural variety of the studied xenoliths, from coarse (protogranular) to granoblastic, is an evidence of crystallization processes by mechanical deformation. T he application of geothermometers described in the literature to spinel lherzolites yielded equilibrium temperatures between 655 and 908 ° C, agreeing with data from other intrusions from western Minas Gerais. The presence of ilmenite and phlogopite in the form of pockets in peridotite xenoliths, as well as in mica pyroxenite and polymictic xenoliths, is indicative of mantle metasomatic processes in the Monte Carmelo region.

O kimberlito Régis localiza-se no município do Carmo do Paranaíba, Minas Gerais. A intrusão possui formato elíptico e área aproximada de 1 km2. Com provável idade cretácea intrude rochas metassedimentares Neoproterozóicas do Grupo Bambuí. O ambiente geotectônico permanece em debate entre Faixa Brasília e Cráton do São Francisco. A presente dissertação contempla a descrição de afloramentos e de dois testemunhos de sondagem, com 250,6 e 316,4 metros. Através da caracterização macroscópica e petrográfica buscou-se subdividir a intrusão em fácies e compreender os mecanismos formadores destes depósitos, além de caracterizar o manto através dos xenólitos. A química mineral foi utilizada para caracterizar os minerais de xenólitos mantélicos e alguns minerais kimberlíticos, com aproveitamento para classificação de rocha. A área mapeada e os dois testemunhos descritos foram subdivididos em 9 unidades faciológicas principais, com base na estrutura, contatos, textura e associação mineral. Duas unidades, descritas em superfície, são correlacionáveis a outras duas descritas nos testemunhos. Estas fácies demonstram uma sucessão sedimentar grano-estrato decrescente interpretadas como produtos de fluxo de detritos e decantação em ambiente subaquoso, possivelmente lacustrino. As outras 5 unidades são distinguidas entre si pela estrutura, textura, tipo e proporção entre cristais, magmaclastos e xenólitos. Estas últimas foram interpretadas como sendo piroclásticas com base nas seguintes feições: (1) xenólitos mantélicos, crustais e de rochas encaixantes com borda de reação; (2) presença de lapili peletal com borda vítrea de resfriamento; (3) presença de magmaclastos amebóideis; (4) acumulações de cristais de olivinas em camadas; entre outras. Os xenólitos mantélicos foram caracterizados petrograficamente como granada-lherzolito e dunitos. A granada é composta predominantemente pela molécula piropo, sua composição química situa-se no campo de peridotito lherzolítico. A olivina é forsterítica, com Fo entre 0,90 e 0,92%. O ortopiroxênio predominante é enstatita. Dentre os clinopiroxênios identificam-se variedades de augita, diopsídio, onfacita e aegirina-augita. A geotermobarometria indica amostragem em condições de equilíbrio com o diamante. As análises químicas de flogopita kimberlítica situam-se no campo do kimberlito tipo I e do lamproíto, e seguem a linha de tendência do kimberlito tipo I. A composição da ilmenita localiza-se no campo de kimberlitos cratônicos. As análises indicaram que o kimberlito Régis apresenta potencial diamantífero, e as fácies caracterizadas podem ser empregadas visando um melhor aproveitamento da lavra. / The Regis Kimberlite surfaces in the Carmo do Paranaíba County, western of the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The pipe forms a 1km2 elliptical body. A Cretacic age for the instrusion seems the most probable. It intruded Neoproterozoic metamorphic rocks of Bambuí Group, and if it is located on Sao Francisco Craton or Brasilia Belt remains on doubt. The studies comprise two drills hole, with 250.6 and 316.4 meters, and outcrops descriptions. The kimberlite rocks and their mantle xenoliths samples were investigated through the macroscopic and microscopic characterization. The mantle and kimberlitic minerals have been analysed chemically and were used to support the rocks classification. The surveyed area, including the drilled hole cores, was subdivided into nine facies units. The division was based on structures, contact types, correlated rock texture and mineral association. Two units, with outcrop description, are correlated to two units with drill hole core description. This facies shows a fining-upward sedimentary sequence understood as deposited by debris flow and decantantion on lacustrine environment. In respect to the other five units each one has a specific proportion of crystals, magmaclasts and mantle xenoliths, furthermore a structure and rock fabric. This was explained as formed by pyroclastic flows based on: (1) crustal and mantle xenoliths with reaction rims; (2) pelletal lapilli with glassy rims; (3) ameboid magmaclasts; (4) accumulation of olivine in layers, and others. The mantle xenoliths were characterized through petrographic examination as garnet lherzolite and dunite. The garnet is predominantly pyrope, and plots on the lherzolític field. The olivine is forsteritic, with Fo between 0.90 to 0.92%. The ortopyroxene is predominantly enstatite. Among the clinopyroxene recognizes augite, diopside, omphacite and aegirine-augite. The geothermobarometry reveals sampling on diamond P-T conditions. The kimberlitic phlogopite chemical composition plots on kimberlite type-1 and lamproite field, with the kimberlite type-1 trend. The ilmenite chemical compositions reflect a cratonic environment. The results presented here indicate a diamondiferous potential of the Regis kimberlite. The facies units characterized here may be used to a better mine planning.

Kimberlitos são rochas vulcânicas que, frequentemente, contêm diamante, grafite e/ou carbonato, sendo a presença destes componentes diretamente influenciada pela variabilidade da fugacidade de oxigênio (fO2) do magma durante a sua ascenção. Segundo Chakhmouradian and Mitchell (2000), CaTiO3-perovskitas podem ser usadas para revelar as condições de alguns dos múltiplos estágios de cristalização da história magmática destas rochas. No intuito de estabelecer a fugacidade de oxigênio de magmas kimberlíticos naturais, CaTiO3-perovskitas foram cristalizadas experimentalmente em equilíbrio com um líquido kimberlítico sintético em altas temperaturas e diferentes condições de pressão e de fugacidade de oxigênio. Os experimentos mostraram que a perovskita incorporou maiores quantidades de Fe3+ com o aumento da fO2. A equação do oxigênio barômetro desenvolvida neste estudo pode ser aplicada em rochas kimberlíticas de diferentes condições de fO2, que contêm CaTiO3-perovskita e olivina. Na presente pesquisa, nós aplicamos este oxigênio barômetro em amostras do kimberlito Rosário do Sul, que é um kimberlito transicional localizado no limite sudoeste da Bacia do Paraná. Os dados de minerais deste kimberlito sugerem que sua fonte é um produto da reação de um líquido silicático-carbonatítico com o manto. Idades U-Pb de ~ 128Ma em CaTiO3-perovskitas (Conceição et al., in prep.) revelam que o kimberlito Rosário do Sul provavelmente entrou em erupção logo após o vulcanismo da Província Paraná-Etendeka. Temperaturas de cristalização, pressões e fO2 dos kimberlitos Rosário do Sul e Alfeu-I, outro importante kimberlito situado no sul do Brasil, foram calculadas. As condições de suas fontes foram estimadas usando diferentes métodos a partir das composições de olivinas, espinélios, CaTiO3-perovskitas, granadas, ortopiroxênios e clinopiroxênios. As temperaturas, pressões e condições de fO2 dos kimberlitos Rosário do Sul e Alfeu-I sugerem que eles foram transportados para a superfície em condições nas quais fluidos ricos em CO2 podem reagir com o manto silicático e produzir carbonatos. A composição mineral e as condições de formação do kimberlito Rosário do Sul indicam que a sua fonte pode ter sido metassomatizada por fluidos provenientes da reciclagem de uma placa oceânica subductada durante a quebra do Gondwana e abertura do Atlântico Sul, logo depois do vulcanismo da Província Paraná-Etendeka. As condições de formação dos kimberlitos Rosário do Sul e Alfeu-I são usadas também para estimar o potencial destes kimberlitos em preservar diamantes. / Kimberlites are volcanic rocks which often contain diamonds, graphite and/or carbonate, and the stability of these minerals is directly influenced by the variability of oxygen fugacity (fO2) of the magma during its ascent. Second Chakhmouradian and Mitchell (2000), CaTiO3-perovskites may be used to unravel the conditions of some of the multiple stages of crystallization in the magmatic history of these rocks. In order to establish oxygen fugacities of natural kimberlititic magmas, we experimentally equilibrated CaTiO3-perovskites with synthetic kimberlitic melts at high temperatures, different oxygen fugacities and different pressures. The experiments show that perovskite incorporates increasing amounts of Fe3+ with increasing fO2. The oxygen barometer equation developed in this study can be applied in kimberlite rocks that contain CaTiO3-perovskite and olivine from different fO2 conditions. In the present research, we applied this oxygen barometer in the Rosário do Sul kimberlite samples, which is a transitional kimberlite located in the southwestern edge of the Paraná Basin. The mineral data of this kimberlite suggest that its source is a product of the reaction of a silicate-carbonate liquid in the mantle. U-Pb ages of ~ 128 Ma on CaTiO3-perovskites (Conceição et al., in prep.) reveal that the Rosário do Sul kimberlite probably erupted just after the volcanism of Paraná-Etendeka Province. We calculated crystallization temperatures, pressures and oxygen fugacities (fO2) of Rosário do Sul and Alfeu-I kimberlites, another important kimberlite situated in the South of Brazil. Their source conditions are estimated using different methods from olivines, spinels, CaTiO3-perovskites, garnets, orthopyroxenes and clinopyroxenes compositions. The calculated temperature, pressure and fO2 values of Rosário do Sul and Alfeu-I kimberlites suggest that they were transported to the surface under fO2 conditions in which CO2-rich fluids may react with mantle silicates to produce carbonates. The mineral composition and fO2 conditions of Rosário do Sul kimberlite indicate that its source may have been metasomatized by fluids generated from the recycling of a subducted oceanic plate during the Gondwana breakup and the South Atlantic opening, just after the Paraná-Etendeka Province volcanism. The source conditions of Rosário do Sul and Alfeu-I kimberlites are also used to estimate the potential of these kimberlites to preserve diamonds.

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La convection dans le manteau terrestre est la principale force motrice du mouvement des plaques tectoniques. Alors que les parties inférieures du manteau supérieur se déforment de manière ductile, les plaques tectoniques sont rhéologiquement plus rigides que l'asthénosphère sous-jacente. Pour comprendre le couplage entre la convection profonde et les plaques tectoniques à la surface de la Terre, il est essentiel de comprendre les mécanismes de déformation visqueuse et frictionnelle du manteau lithosphérique. Mais à ce jour, la rhéologie du manteau supérieur juste au-dessous de la discontinuité de Mohorovicic est encore mal comprise. De plus, les premiers stades de la déformation viscoplastique à des températures intermédiaires (600-1000 ° C) pertinentes pour le manteau lithosphérique, ne sont ni bien documentés ni quantifiés. Dans le passé, la plupart des expériences de déformation étaient effectuées à des températures très élevées (> 1200 ° C). Pour fournir des valeurs mécaniques précises pour le manteau lithosphérique, nous avons besoin de données mécaniques mais aussi de la caractérisation de la microstructure associée pour comprendre la physique des mécanismes en jeu lors de la déformation permanente des roches riches en olivine. Dans cette thèse, nous avons réalisé des expériences de déformation en compression axiale à l'aide d'une presse Paterson (Géosciences Montpellier, Université de Montpellier, France) à haute pression et température (300 MPa, 1000-12000 ° C) et en torsion (‘rotary shear frictional testing machine’ au laboratoire de mécanique des roches, université de Durham, Royaume-Uni) à pression et température ambiantes. Les échantillons ont été caractérisés par microscopie électronique à balayage, diffraction d’ d'électrons rétrodiffusés et microscopie électronique en transmission. Après un chapitre d'introduction où l'état de l'art est détaillé et un chapitre consacré aux méthodes expérimentales et analytiques utilisées dans les projets scientifiques, la thèse s'organise en trois chapitres, chacun correspondant à trois articles scientifiques: le premier est publié (1) Évolution de la contrainte et des microstructures associées au fluage transitoire de l'olivine à 1000-1200 °C (Phys. Earth Planet. Int., doi: 10.1016/ j.pepi.2018.03.002. (https: //hal.archives- ouvertes.fr/hal-01746122) et les deux autres sont en préparation, (2) Densité de disclinaisons dans l'olivine polycristalline déformée expérimentalement à 1000 ° C et 1200 ° C (3) Déformation par cisaillement de l'olivine nano- et micro-cristalline. Le premier projet du chapitre III a montré que le durcissement mécanique observé ne peut pas provenir d'une simple augmentation de la densité de dislocations (e.g., la forêt) et que d'autres mécanismes doivent être mis en œuvre pour compenser les limites de glissements des dislocations. Dans le chapitre IV, les densités de dislocation géométriquement nécessaires (GND, défauts de translation) et les disclinaisons (défauts de rotation) sont quantifiées sur une série de roches déformées à différentes températures, déformations finies et niveaux de contrainte, mais aucune corrélation n'a été identifiée entre la densité de disclinaisons, et la contrainte, la déformation finie, ou la densité de GND. Le rôle des disclinaisons serait donc limité à la migration aux joints de grains, ce qui peut être suffisant pour débloquer les dislocations dans l'agrégat d'olivine polycristalline. Au chapitre V, les expériences de torsion ont confirmé l'effet négligeable de la taille du grain (olivine de 0,7 à 70 µm) sur la diminution drastique du coefficient de frottement, mais la caractérisation des échantillons n’a pas permis d'élucider le mécanisme principal de déformation. Cette thèse a permis de mieux caractériser la transition fragile-ductile d'une roche de type dunite à grains fins soumise à une déformation permanente aux températures du manteau sommitale. / Convection in Earth’s mantle is the major driving force behind the movement of tectonic plates. While the lower parts of the upper mantle deform in a ductile way, the plates themselves are rheologically more rigid than the asthenosphere beneath. To understand how convection yields tectonic plates, it is vital to quantify the viscous and frictional strength of the lithospheric mantle. Yet to date, the rheology of the uppermost mantle just below the Mohorovicic discontinuity is still poorly understood. Furthermore, the early stages of visco-plastic deformation at intermediate temperatures (600 – 1000 °C) relevant of the lithospheric mantle are not well documented or quantified. In the past, most deformation experiments were performed at high temperatures (> 1200 °C). To provide accurate mechanical values for the lithospheric mantle, we need mechanical data but also a characterization of the associated microstructure to understand the deformation mechanisms at play during permanent deformation of olivine-rich rocks. In this thesis, I have performed deformation experiments in axial compression using a Paterson press (at Géosciences Montpellier, University of Montpellier, France) at high pressure and temperature (300 MPa, 1000 -12000 °C) and in torsion using a low to high velocity rotary shear frictional testing machine (Rock Mechanics Laboratory, Durham University, UK) at room pressure and temperatures. The recovered samples were characterized using scanning electron microscopy, electron backscatter diffraction and transmission electron microscopy. After an introduction chapter where the state-of-the-art is detailed, and a chapter focusing on experimental and analytical methods used during scientific projects, the thesis is organized as three subsequent chapters, each of them corresponding to three scientific articles: one is published (1) Stress evolution and associated microstructure during transient creep of olivine at 1000-1200 °C (Phys. Earth Planet. Int., doi: 10.1016/j.pepi.2018.03.002.); and the two others are in preparation, (2) Disclination density in polycrystalline olivine experimentally deformed at 1000 °C and 1200 °C; and (3) Shear deformation of nano- and micro-crystalline olivine at seismic slip rates. Chapter III has shown that the observed mechanical hardening can not come from a simple increase in dislocation density (e.g., entanglement) and that other mechanisms must be at play to compensate for the limitations of dislocation slip. For the first time, in chapter IV the densities of geometrically necessary dislocations (GND, translational defects) and disclinations (rotational defects) are quantified on a series of rocks deformed at different temperatures, finite strains and stress levels. No correlation has been identified between disclination density and stress, strain or GND. The role of the disclinations will therefore be limited to migration at grain boundaries, which may be sufficient to unblock dislocations in the polycrystalline olivine aggregate. In chapter V, torsion experiments confirmed the negligible effect of grain size (olivine from 0.07 to 70 μm) on the drastic decrease of the coefficient of friction, but the characterization of the samples did permit to shed light on the main mechanism of deformation. Thanks to an experimental approach and up-to-date material characterization, this thesis permitted better characterization of the brittle-ductile transition of a fine-grained dunite-type rock subjected to permanent deformation at uppermost mantle temperatures.

La théorie de la tectonique des plaques permet de décrire les mouvements de premier ordre qui opèrent à la surface de la Terre. S'il est acquis que la convection dans le manteau terrestre en est le moteur, les liens entre les phénomènes profonds et les caractéristiques tectoniques de la surface restent largement méconnus. Jusqu'à très récemment, les modèles de convection du manteau terrestre ne produisaient pas de tectonique de surface pouvant être comparée à celle de la Terre. Récemment, des modèles globaux de convection qui reproduisent une tectonique de surface comparable à la Terre au premier ordre ont été mis au point. Ces modèles produisent des courants mantelliques ascendants et descendants de grande échelle et des déformations localisées en surface dans les zones de divergence et les zones de convergence. Ils génèrent une expansion des fonds océaniques de manière auto-cohérente proche de celle reconstruite pour les 200 derniers millions d'années de l'histoire de la Terre et une dérive de continents similaire à celle observée grâce au paléomagnétisme. Cette thèse s'inscrit parmi les premières tentatives d'utilisation de modèles de convection sphériques auto-organisés à des fins de compréhension de la tectonique de surface. La tectonique produite dans ce type de modèles de convection sera caractérisée finement à travers l'étude des limites de plaques, de leur agencement et de leurs vitesses de déplacement. L'objectif est de pouvoir comparer qualitativement et quantitativement les résultats des calculs de convection avec les reconstructions des mouvements de la surface terrestre grâce à la tectonique des plaques et aux observations de terrain. Dans cette optique, les limites tectoniques ont été définies à la main dans un premier temps afin de comprendre la physique qui gouverne l'agencement caractéristique des plaques tectoniques terrestres. En effet, celle-ci est composée de sept grandes plaques et plusieurs petites dont la répartition statistique indique deux processus de mise en place distincts. Nous avons déterminé les processus responsables de la mise en place de l'agencement caractéristique des plaques tectoniques en surface en faisant varier la résistance de la lithosphère. Plus la lithosphère est résistante, plus la longueur totale et la courbure des zones de subduction diminue à la surface des modèles. Cela s'accompagne également d'une diminution du nombre de petites plaques. En étudiant la fragmentation au niveau des jonctions triples, nous avons montré que les petites plaques étaient associées aux géométries courbées des fosses océaniques. En revanche, les grandes plaques sont contrôlées par les grandes longueurs d'onde de la convection mantellique. Ces deux processus impliquent deux temps de réorganisation, c'est-à-dire l'apparition et la disparition d'une plaque plongeante dans le manteau terrestre (environ 100 millions d'années) pour les grandes plaques, alors que l'échelle de temps de réorganisation des petites plaques dépend des mouvements des fosses et est ainsi plus rapide d'un ordre de grandeur. Afin d'effectuer des analyses quantitatives rapides, des méthodes d'analyse automatique de la surface et de l'intérieur des modèles ont été développées. La première technique concerne la détection automatique des plaques tectoniques à la surface des modèles (ADOPT). ADOPT est un outil de détection basé sur une technique de segmentation d'images utilisée pour détecter des bassins versants. Les champs à la surface des modèles sont transformés en reliefs, soit directement, soit après un processus de filtrage. Cette détection permet d'obtenir des polygones de plaques comparable aux analyses réalisées à la main. Une autre technique de détection a été mise au point pour étudier les panaches mantelliques [etc...] / Plate tectonics theory describes first order surface motions at the surface of the Earth. Although it is agreed upon that convection in the mantle drives the plates, the relationships between deep dynamics and surface tectonics are still largely unknown. Until recently, mantle convection models could not produce surface tectonics that could be compared to that of the Earth. New global models are able to form large-scale ascending and descending mantle currents, as well as narrow regions of localized deformation at the surface where convergence and divergence occur. These models selfconsistently generate an expansion of the oceanic floor similar to that of the last 200 million years on Earth, and continental drift similar to what can be reconstructed with palaeomagnetism. This Ph.D. thesis constitutes one of the first attempts to use self-organised, spherical convection models in order to better understand surface tectonics. Here, the tectonics produced by the models is finely charaterized through the study of plate boundaries, their organisation and their velocities. The goal is to be able to compare qualitatively and quantitatively the results of convection computations with surface motions, as reconstructed using the rules of plate tectonics and field observations. Plate boundaries emerging from the models were first traced and analyzed by hand so as to understand the physics that govern the typical organization of the tectonics plates on Earth. It is characterised by seven large plates and several smaller ones, following a statistical distribution that suggests that two distinct physical processes control the plates’ layout. We have determined the processes responsible for this distribution while varying the strength of the lithosphere (the yield stress). In our models, the stronger the lithosphere, the greater the total subduction length and their curvature, and the fewer the small plates. By studying surface fragmentation with triple junctions, we showed that the formation of small plates is associated with oceanic trench curvature. Large plates, however, are controlled by the long wavelengths of the convection cells. These two processes involve two different reorganisation times, controlled either by the accretion and the subduction of the large plates (about 100 Myrs), or by trench motions for the smaller plates. In order to improve the efficiency of our analysis, we have developed automated methods to study the surface and the interior of the models. The first technique is about detecting the tectonic plates automatically at the surface of the models. It is called ADOPT. It is a tool based on image segmentation technique to detect the watersheds. The surface fields of the convection models are converted into a relief field, either directly or using a distance method. This automatic detection allows to obtain plates polygons similar to the hand analysis. Another technique of detection has been developed to study mantle plumes. These analyzes were used to determine the driving forces behind the plates layout, to quantify the timing of reorganizations and to evaluate the implication of the models rheology on the surface distribution. These new analytical tools and the constant evolution of the quality of mantle convection models allow us to improve our understanding of the link between mantle dynamics and surface tectonics, but also to target necessary improvements in the convection models used

Os modelos para a formação de plútons alcalinos da Província Alcalina do Sudeste Brasileiro ou Alinhamento Poços de Caldas-Cabo Frio associam a gênese destas rochas a grandes reativações ou a passagem de uma pluma mantélica, registrada pelo traço de um hot spot. O objetivo desta tese é, apresentar novos dados e interpretações para contribuir com a melhor elucidação e discussão destes modelos. Os estudos incluem mapeamento, petrografia, litogeoquímica, geoquímica isotópica de Sr, Nd e Pb e datação 40Ar/39Ar. As intrusões selecionadas correspondem ao Morro Redondo, Mendanha e Morro de São João, no Rio de Janeiro, localizados em posições distintas no alinhamento Poços de Caldas-Cabo Frio. A intrusão alcalina do Morro Redondo é composta majoritariamente de nefelina sienitos e sienitos com nefelina, com rara ocorrência de rochas máficas e é caracterizada por uma suíte alcalina sódica insaturada em sílica, de caráter metaluminosa a peralcalina. Esta intrusão foi datada em aproximadamente 74 Ma (idade-platô 40Ar/39Ar). A intrusão alcalina do Mendanha é composta por diversos tipos de rochas sieníticas, além de brechas e estruturas subvulcânicas, como rochas piroclásticas e diques e caracteriza-se por ser uma suíte alcalina sódica saturada em sílica, de caráter metaluminosa, diferente do que ocorre no Marapicu, este subsaturado em sílica. Esta intrusão apresentou duas idades-platô 40Ar/39Ar distintas de magmatismo: 64 Ma para as rochas do Mendanha e 54 Ma em dique de lamprófiro, registrando magmatismo policíclico. O Morro do Marapicu foi datado em aproximadamente 80 Ma. Já a intrusão alcalina do Morro de São João possui uma ampla variedade de litotipos saturados a subsaturados em sílica, tais como sienitos, álcali-sienitos e monzossienitos (alguns portadores de pseudoleucita), com variedades melanocráticas, tais como malignitos e fergustios. Estas rochas definem suas distintas suítes alcalinas subsaturadas em sílica: Uma de composição sódica e outra potássica. Há também uma suíte alcalina saturada em sílica, definida por gabros alcalinos e shonkinitos. A petrogênese destas intrusões corresponde ao modelo de cristalização fracionada, com assimilação de rochas encaixantes (AFC) como indicado pela alta variabilidade de razões isotópicas de estrôncio. No Morro de São João é sugerido o modelo de mistura magmática. Estas intrusões foram geradas a partir de magmas mantélicos enriquecidos, possivelmente associados à antiga zona de subducção relacionada ao orógeno Ribeira. Em razão das novas idades obtidas, o modelo de hot spot proposto fica prejudicado, visto que o Marapicu é de idade mais antiga das intrusões analisadas, o que era esperado para o Morro Redondo. Alguns modelos projetam plumas mantélicas com aproximadamente 1000 km de diâmetro, o que poderia explicar o Mendanha ser contemporâneo ao Morro de São João. As assinaturas isotópicas obtidas para as intrusões não se associam à assinatura isotópica de Trindade e, caso o modelo de plumas mantélicas seja o correto, a pluma que teria maior semelhança de assinatura isotópica é a pluma de Tristão da Cunha. / The models for formation of alkaline plutons of the Southeastern Brazil Alkaline Province or Poços de Caldas-Cabo Frio Magmatic Lineament, which genetic modeling associates crust reactivations or mantle plumes, with definition of a hot spot track. The objective of this work is to report new data and interpretations to contribute to a better understanding and discussion about the model of alkaline rock generation. The studies involved geological mapping, petrography, litogeochemistry, Sr-Nd-Pb isotopes and 40Ar/39Ar geochronology. The selected alkaline complexes are the Morro Redondo, Mendanha and Morro de São João, located at Rio de Janeiro State. These intrusions are well-distributed along the Poços de Caldas-Cabo Frio Magmatic Lineament. The Morro Redondo alkaline intrusion is composed mainly by nepheline syenites and nepheline-bearing syenites and mafic rocks are rare. It was defined as a sodic silica-undersaturated alkaline suite, with metaluminous to peralkaline characteristics. The intrusion was dated at 74 Ma (40Ar/39Ar plateau age). The Mendanha alkaline intrusion is compose by various types of syenitic rocks, breccias and subvulcanic structures, as pyroclastic rocks and dikes. It was defined by a sodic silica-saturated alkaline suite with metaluminous characterisics. The intrusion presented two distinct 40Ar/39Ar ages for the magmatism: 64 Ma for Mendanha rocks and 54 Ma to lamprophyre dike, which illustrates a polycyclic magmatism. The Morro do Marapicu 40Ar/39Ar age yielded 80 Ma. The Morro de São João alkaline intrusion has a large variety of silica-undersaturated to silica-saturated rocks, as syenites, alkali-syenites and monzosyenites (some pseudoleucite-bearing), with melanocratic varieties, as malignites and ferguites. These rocks defined distinct alkaline silica-undersaturated suggenting sodic and potassic types. There was found an alkaline silica-saturated suite, defined by alkaline gabbros and shonkinites. The petrogenesis of these intrusions corresponds to the fractional crystallization, with assimilation of host rocks, and the crustal contamination is indicated by high variability of Sr isotope ratios. For Morro de São João origin is suggested a K-Na bimodal magma. These intrusions were generated from enriched mantle-derived magmas, possible associated to ancient subduction zone of Ribeira orogen. In terms of the new 40Ar/39Ar data, the hot spot model is not plausible, because the Morro do Marapicu is older than the other studied intrusions. Some models projected mantle plumes with 1000 Km size, what may explain the reason for Mendanha and Morro de São João have the nearly the same age. The obtained isotopic signatures for these intrusions were not associated to Trindade signature and, if the mantle plumes model is correct, the plume that has the most similar signature is Tristão da Cunha.

Le segment 16°N de la dorsale Est-Pacifique (EPR) interagit avec le point chaud des Mathématiciens (PCM). A partir de l’analyse géochimique de 120 échantillons de verres basaltiques prélevés par submersible Nautile (campagne à la mer PARISUB 2010) coulée par coulée, ce travail présente une étude à très petite échelle de l’hétérogénéité chimique du manteau sous quelques kilomètres de dorsale (15°37’N et 15°47’N). Les résultats obtenus témoignent d’une variabilité géochimique jamais observée à si petite échelle sous une dorsale. Le degré d’hétérogénéité du manteau dans cette zone est comparable à celui de l’ensemble de l’EPR. Cette diversité est le produit du mélange entre trois sources mantelliques principales, caractérisant l’influence et l’hétérogénéité du point chaud. La densité de l’échantillonnage offre une résolution spatiale en adéquation avec les données bathymétriques, ce qui a permis de coupler les deux approches et faire une reconstruction spatio-temporelle de l’évolution géochimique et morphologique du système EPR/PCM.Celle-ci commence il y a environ 600 ka par le gonflement du segment et un changement général dans la composition du manteau ambiant, suivi de deux sauts d’axe successifs en direction de la chaîne il y a 250 et 150 ka. Lors de cette phase de rapprochement de nouvelles signatures géochimiques émergent ponctuellement dans les MORB. Parmi elles,une signature relique de manteau appauvri régional, une autre d’hétérogénéité enrichie locale, et enfin celle de deux types d’hétérogénéités contenues dans la source du PCM.Cette dernière, n’apparaît dans les MORB qu’au cours des 100 dernières années autour de 15°44’N, et constitue une signature géochimique inédite pour des MORB. Ce nouveau composant a la particularité d’avoir du Pb très peu radiogénique ("Unradiogenic Lead Component", ULC) associé à des signatures isotopiques en Sr, Nd et Hf enrichies.Les compositions en éléments majeurs, traces et isotopes (Sr, Nd, Hf, Pb et He) suggèrent l’implication de matériel métagabbroique, ancien (>2Ga) à affinité continentale.La présence de sulfures dans la source permettrait d’expliquer le Pb peu radiogénique.Le recyclage dans le manteau supérieur de pyroxénites à sulfures, provenant de la partie profonde d’anciens arcs continentaux permettrait d’expliquer l’origine de ULC. Les basaltes ULC seraient donc les témoins volcaniques de la fusion de ce réservoir discret qui contribue à résoudre le paradoxe du Pb. / 120 Mid-Ocean-Ridge basaltic (MORB) glasses were collected on discrete lava flow (~200m sampling interval) during submersible dives along the East-Pacific-Rise (EPR), between 15°37’N and 14°47’N, precisely where the ridge intersects the Mathematicianshotspot track. The data display a geochemical variability that has never been observedalong a ridge at such a small spatial scale. The range of isotopic compositions along this 15 km segment is commensurable to that of the entire EPR. It can be accounted for by a mixture of three main components, representative of the hotspot heterogeneity.The dense sampling, along and across the ridge segment, matches the resolution of themicro-bathymetric data, which made the spatio-temporal reconstruction of the geochemical and morphological evolution of the EPR/Mathematician hotspot system possible.The latest starts 600 kya with the segment inflation and a global change in the ambient mantle composition, followed by two successive jumps of the ridge axis (250 and 150 kya) towards the seamounts chain. During this phase as the two systems are getting closer,new geochemical signatures emerge in MORB. Among them, relics of regional depleted mantle, small enriched local heterogeneities, and two types of heterogeneities belonging to the hotspot source. The last one become apparent only during the last 100 yearsaround 15°44’N, and constitutes a novel geochemical signature for MORB. This new component’s most noticeable property is its very unradiogenic Pb ("Unradiogenic Lead Component", ULC) associated with mostly enriched Sr, Nd and Hf isotopic signatures. Putted together, major, trace elements and isotopes (Sr, Nd, Hf, Pb and He) suggest anancient (>2Ga) lower continental metagabbroic origin for this material, while the involvement of sulfides is considered in order to explain the unradiogenic lead compositions. Overall, the preferred model for the formation of ULC is the recycling within the uppermantle of sulfide bearing pyroxenites coming from continental arc roots. ULC-influenced basalts represent magmatic witnesses of the melting of this cryptic reservoir that can contribute to solve the Pb paradox.

O manto litosférico é depletado em elementos incompatíveis como potássio, rubídio e estrôncio, confinado sob altas condições de pressão e caracterizado por uma composição e mineralogia específicas: espinélios anidros e/ou granada lherzolitos e harzburgitos. Esta região pode ser hidratada e enriquecida em elementos incompatíveis (ex. potássio) através de processos de subducção, onde a placa oceânica subductada leva consigo material pelágico composto de argilominerais e filossilicatos. A transferência de massa entre a placa subductada com os sedimentos e a cunha mantélica ocorre primeiramente através da liberação de fluidos aquosos gerados pela devolatilização de minerais hidratados. Neste contexto, a esmectita destaca-se como um dos mais importantes minerias responsáveis pelo enriquecimento do manto litosférico em água e elementos incompatíveis, quando sua estrutura é desestabilizada. Com o aumento da pressão e temperatura, esmectitas perdem sua água interlamelar, ao mesmo tempo em que se transformam em camadas mistas esmectita-ilita. Nestas condições de desidratação, e com o aumento da pressão, mudanças estruturais ocorrem e, havendo potássio disponível no sistema, o argilomineral evolui para uma mica muscovita. Considerando este contexto, o presente trabalho tem como objetivo verificar o comportamento estrutural da esmectita saturada em potássio modificando as variáveis pressão e temperatura: (1) sob pressão atmosférica em diferentes temperaturas (100º a 700ºC); (2) sob pressão de até 11.5 GPa sem temperatura - Diamond Anvil Cell (DAC); (3) sob diferentes pressões com aplicação de temperatura: 2.5GPa (400º a 700ºC) e 4.0GPa (200º a 700ºC). Os resultados das técnicas de análise de Difração de raios X, Microscopia Eletrônica de Varredura (MEV), Microscopia Eletrônica de Transmissão (MET) e Espectroscopia por Infravermelho (FTIR) sugerem que, sob uma pressão de 2.5 GPa, que é cerca de 75km de profundidade no manto, e a aproximadamente 500ºC, a esmectita transforma-se em muscovita, enquanto sob a pressão de 4.0 Gpa, equivalente a cerca de 120 km de profundidade, a mesma transformação ocorre a 400ºC. Estes resultados contribuem significativamente para o entendimento de como a desidratação do sedimento pelágico ocorre em um processo de subducção, bem como o comportamento da esmectita sob a influência do aumento de pressão e temperatura. / The lithospheric mantle is depleted regarding to incompatible elements as potassium, rubidium and strontium, confined under pressure conditions and characterized by a specific mineralogy and composition, basically as anhydrous spinel and/or garnet lherzolite and harzburgite. This region can be hydrated and enriched in incompatible elements (e.g. potassium) through subduction processes that bring pelagic material, composed of clay minerals and other phyllosilicates, together with the hydrated subducted oceanic slab. A mass transfer from the subducted slab plus sediments into the mantle wedge occurs primarily through the release of aqueous fluids produced by devolatilization of hydrated minerals. In this context, smectite stands out as one of the most important minerals responsible for enriching the lithospheric mantle with water and incompatible elements when its structure is destabilized. By pressure and temperature increasing smectite lose its interlayer water, at the same time that it transforms into a mixed-layer illite-smectite. In this condition of dehydration and with increasing pressure, structural changes occur and, having potassium available on the system, the clay mineral evolves into a muscovite mica. Considering this context, we verified the structural behavior of potassium saturated smectite modifying variables pressure and temperature: (1) under atmospheric pressure at different temperatures (100º to 700º C); (2) under pressure up 11.5 GPa without temperature - Diamond Anvil Cell (DAC); (3) under different pressures with temperature application: 2.5 GPa (400º to 700º C) and 4.0 GPa (200º to 700º C). The results of the analysis techniques of X-ray diffraction, Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) and Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR), suggest that under the pressure of 2.5 GPa, which is about 75km depth in the mantle, and at around 500ºC smectite transforms into muscovite, while under the pressure of 4.0 GPa, equivalent to around 120km depth, the same transformation occurs at 400ºC. These results contribute significantly to understanding how pelagic sediment dehydration occurs in a subduction process, as well as the behavior of smectite under the influence of increasing pressure and temperature.