A origem anatética dos migmatitos do Complexo Camboriú é evidenciada pelas macroestruturas e suportada pelos dados petrográficos, geoquímicos e isotópicos. A fusão parcial em regime compressivo é sugerida pela grande quantidade de leucossoma em regiões de baixa pressão como interboudins e superfície de dilatação. A intensificação do processo anatético pode ser devida ao aumento do gradiente geotérmico provocado pela intrusão dos muitos corpos graníticos neoproterozóicos presentes. A complexidade do sistema geoquímico e isotópico analisado em detalhe aponta possíveis equívocos em trabalhos regionais. Apesar dos dados isotópicos nos migmatitos anatéticos sugerirem gênese em crosta continental em sistema relativamente fechado, a mobilização de elementos em pequena escala modificou as razões isotópicas dos mesossomas, leucossomas e rochas ultramáficas associadas, as quais, sem controle de campo, petrográfico e geoquímico, conduziriam a interpretações errôneas sobre a evolução geológica da região. A temperatura para formação do leucossoma é estimada em 750-800 C, principalmente pelos indícios de geração por fusão de rochas quartzo-feldspáticas em presença de água, com possível participação da muscovita no processo de anatexia, porém com preservação da biotita. O estudo integrado aplicando diferentes métodos analíticos a dados de um único afloramento, com amostras de unidades regionais para correlação levou a uma melhor compreensão da evolução petrogenética do Complexo Camboriú, o qual, após a extração do manto há aproximadamente 2,5 Ga, foi reciclado em crosta continental espessada. Os resultados sugerem que migmatitos, associados a rochas ultramáficas, ou fontes muito semelhantes, em condições de temperatura e pressão mais altas, são os protólitos dos granitos Itapema, Serra dos macacos e Corre Mar, também resultantes de reciclagem crustal. Os valores negativos de eNd(595 Ma) e positivos de eSr(595 Ma), com 87Sr/86Sr inicial (595 Ma) > 0,706 e > 8, indicam gênese em crosta superior, suportada pela análise geoquímica. Estas condições, e as temperaturas relativamente baixas de formação dos leucossomas seriam compatíveis com um cenário em que as rochas migmatíticas constituíssem tetos pendentes das intrusões graníticas que predominam na região. / The anatectic origin evidenced by known macrostructures in migmatites of the Camboriú Complex is supported by petrographical, geochemical and isotopic data, with partial melting under compressional regimen being suggested by the large amount of leucosome bodies at low-pressure sites represented by interboudins and dilation surfaces. Despite the continental origin in a relatively closed system suggested by the isotopic data, small-scale mobilization of elements and its consequent isotopic ratio changes in leucosomes and their associated ultramafic rocks might lead studies unsupported by field, petrographic and geochemical control to erroneous interpretations of the geological evolution of the region. The geochemical and isotopic complexities revealed in the detailed study of one single outcrop bring about how misinterpreted interpretations can be in regional isotopic studies. Generation temperatures of 700 to 800 C are estimated for leucosomes, from melting of quartzofeldspatic rocks in presence of water, biotite having taken part of the anatectic process, with possible participation of muscovite. Anatexis may have been intensified by the geothermal gradient elevation that followed numerous Neoproterozoic granite intrusions in the region. The combined use of different analytical methods on data from one single outcrop and correlation samples from regional units led to a better understanding of the petrogenetic evolution of the Camboriú Complex, recycled under thickened continental crust after mantle extraction circa 2.5 Ga. Migmatites in association with ultramafic rocks, or other compositionally similar combinations at higher pressure and temperature conditions, would be protoliths for the Itapema, Serra dos Macacos, and Corre-Mar granites, that also show evidence of having undergone similar crustal recycling. Negative values of eSr(595 Ma), with initial 87Sr/86Sr (595 Ma) > 0.706 and > 8 suggest upper-crust generation conditions, as supported by geochemical results. Such conditions, and the relatively low leucosome generation temperatures seem compatible with a geological setting in which the migmatites of the Camboriú Complex would represent pending roofs to granite intrusions.

Orientador: Elson Paiva de Oliveira / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Geociencias / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-11T16:36:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Costa_FelipeGrandjeanda_M.pdf: 10447471 bytes, checksum: c27e2dc3f77cf21b0841b3e40d6e57ae (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 / Resumo: O greenstone belt do Rio Itapicuru é uma seqüência vulcano-sedimentar paleoproterozóica cortada por uma série de corpos plutônicos com idades entre 2160-2070 Ma. O Granodiorito Fazenda Gavião (GFG) é um corpo intrusivo em metabasaltos da porção ocidental do greenstone, próximo ao contato com o embasamento arqueano. Este pluton tem textura fanerítica média e hornblenda como mineral máfico dominante. Uma característica de campo é a presença de enclaves máficos magmáticos e diques máficos sinmagmáticos com evidências da mistura física de magmas (magma mingling). A analise geoquímica classifica o Granodiorito Fazenda Gavião como uma rocha intermediária (SiO2~63 wt%), com composição de granodiorito a quartzo-monzodiorito, da série cálcioalcalina de médio a alto-K, metaluminoso, espectro Terras Raras fracionado (razão (La/Yb)N = 22.81), alto Sr (900-800 ppm), alto Ba (1000-1500 ppm), e alta razão Sr/Y. Comparando com a geoquímica de outros plutons da área, o GFG apresenta assinatura dos elementos traço similar aos plutons alcalinos, sugerindo uma provável ¿consangüinidade¿ magmática entre estes plutons. A característica geoquímica dos diques máficos (appinitos) associados ao GFG é similar ao granodiorito em questão, porém com uma maior abundancia em Ba, Sr, MgO, Ni, Cr, K2O, e Terras Raras leves, sugerindo que estes diques são originados da fusão parcial de uma fonte mantélica enriquecida. O GFG apresenta semelhanças com rochas adakíticas e plutons TTGs, mas diferente destas rochas, apresenta maior conteúdo em K2O. É possível que o GFG foi originado pela fusão parcial de crosta máfica (crosta inferior?) (com granada e sem plagioclásio no resíduo) em função do acúmulo de magma máfico na base desta crosta (underplating of mafic magmas). O magma félsico gerado, provavelmente se misturou com uma pequena porcentagem do magma máfico, como é sugerido pelas feições de magma mingling observadas em campo. O GFG com idade de 2106 + 6 Ma (U-Pb SHRIMP em zircões) é mais jovem do que o magmatismo TTG/cálcio-alcalino (2163-2127 Ma) e é contemporâneo ao magmatismo potássicoultrapotássico (ca. 2110-2105 Ma) presente no contato embasamento-greenstone. O modelo de evolução geológica desenvolvido nesta dissertação sugere que os plutons ricos-em-K do greenstone belt do Rio Itapicuru são o registro da colisão de um arco oceânico com uma margem continental em ~2110-2105 Ma, precedendo outro evento colisional com retrabalhamento crustal em ~2080-2070 Ma / Abstract: The Rio Itapicuru greenstone belt is a gold-bearing Palaeoproterozoic volcanic-sedimentary sequence intruded by several granitic plutons in the time interval 2160-2070 Ma. The Fazenda Gavião granodiorite (FGG) is one of a set of plutons emplaced along the western boundary of the greenstone belt with the Archaean basement complex. The FGG is largely composed of a homogeneous coarse-grained hornblende granodiorite, occasionally crosscut by appinitic mafic dykes. Minor mafic enclaves and amphibolite xenoliths are common close to the contact with the host metabasalts. The FGG is a metaluminous medium-K to high-K calc-alkaline body with relatively constant silica abundances (SiO2 ~ 63-66 wt %). It shows fractionated REE patterns (LaN/YbN ~22), high Sr (900-800 ppm), high Ba (1000- 1500 ppm), and high Sr/Y ratios. Comparing with the geochemistry of other plutons of the area, the trace elements signature of the FGG suggests a probable magmatic consanguinity between this pluton and the alkaline plutons of the area. Similar geochemical characteristics of the FGG are observed in the associated appinitic dykes, which show relatively higher abundances of Ba, Sr, MgO, Ni, Cr, K2O, and the light rare earth elements, suggesting they derived from partial melts of an enriched mantle source. The FGG shares several geochemical characteristics with adakites and TTG plutons, but unlike these series it shows relatively higher K2O abundance. It is suggested here that the FGG originated from partial melts of the mafic lower crust (with garnet and no plagioclase in the residue) possibly triggered by underplating of mantle-derived, enriched mafic magmas, of which the appinitic mafic dykes may be a representative remnant. The granitic melt mixed with minor amounts of the appinitic magma, as suggest by magma mingling. The 2106 + 6 Ma-old (UPb SHRIMP in zircons) FGG is younger in age than the early (2163-2127 Ma) TTG/calcalkaline arc plutons of the greenstone, and is close-related in time to the young potassicultrapotassic plutons (ca. 2110-2105 Ma) emplaced along the basement-greenstone boundary. We suggest that the K-rich plutons in the Rio Itapicuru greenstone belt are the records of island arc-continent collision at ~2110-2105 Ma, preceding major continental rework and collision at ~2080-2070 Ma / Mestrado / Geologia e Recursos Naturais / Mestre em Geociências

Orientador: Elson Paiva de Oliveira / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Geociencias / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-12T03:34:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ruggiero_Alberto_M.pdf: 5764806 bytes, checksum: cdadd28e98d86c8738fcf5955bd71eea (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 / Resumo: Novos dados geoquímicos nas rochas vulcânicas andesíticas e dacíticas da Unidade Maria Preta (UMP), Greenstone Belt do Rio Itapicuru, revelaram a presença de dois grupos geoquímicos distintos: um de rochas com afinidade adakítica e outro com caráter cálcio-alcalino. A suíte adakítica (ADK), localizada nas porções oeste da UMP, é caracterizada pelos altos valores de Sr/Y (Sr ~900 ppm, Y~5ppm); Na2O ~ 4,5ppm (K2O/Na2O ~0,3). É caracterizada também pelo enriquecimento de LILE (elementos litófilos de alto raio iônico) relativos aos HFSE (elementos de elevado potencial iônico) e também pelo moderado fracionamento dos elementos terras-raras (La/Yb ~ 12). A suíte cálcio-alcalina (CA) apresenta baixas razões Sr/Y (Sr ~ 170 ppm, Y~ 22 ppm), menor fracionamento de elementos terras-raras (La/Yb ~8) e anomalias negativas de Eu. No entanto apresenta maiores concentrações de elementos incompatíveis (Y ~22ppm, Zr ~142ppm, Th ~6ppm) e também Cr e Ni. Foi revelado, através de modelagem geoquímica que as duas suítes não se relacionam por cristalização fracionada. Contudo a suíte Adk apresenta indícios de cristalização fracionada de hornblenda enquanto que na CA a cristalização fracionada de plagioclásio desempenhou papel importante. O ambiente mais provável para a formação das rochas vulcânicas cálcioalcalinas é fusão em baixas profundidades da cunha do manto metassomatizado por fluídos liberados a partir de uma crosta oceânica subductada, seguida por fracionamento de plagioclásio. A geoquímica dos adakitos requer fusão de meta-basaltos hidratados em pressões elevadas, onde granada+hornblenda são estáveis e constituem o restito da fusão. Em geral, as rochas adakíticas apresentam indícios de pouca interação do magma original com uma coluna de manto peridotitico, como visto em adakitos atuais, dados os baixos valores de Cr e Ni em relação aos adakitos cenozóicos. A suíte cálcio-alcalina apresenta menores valores de fugacidade de oxigênio no sítio de extração do magma (entre -3 e -1 FMQ). Ao contrário, os adakitos apresentam maiores valores (entre -1 e +0,5 FMQ), semelhantes aos valores encontrados em adakitos modernos formados por fusão de crosta oceânica subductada. Dados de isótopos de Sm-Nd forneceram idades modelo TDM para a suíte adakítica de 2.213 a 2.010 Ma, com valores de eNdT de +3,9 a +1,7. A suíte cálcio-alcalina revelou idades modelo mais antigas, entre 2.330 e 2.279 Ma e menores valores de eNdT de +0,7 a + 1,3. Estes valores indicam magmatismo juvenil para ambas as suítes, porém com maior tempo residência crustal para a fonte das rochas cálcio-alcalinas, ou interação do magma com crosta mais antiga. Datação U-P SHRIMP em andesito adakítico revelou idade de cristalização de 2.081 ±9 Ma e a presença de zircões herdados arqueanos (3364, 3017, 3064 Ma), evidenciando que o magma gerado em zona de subducção interagiu com crosta arqueana, provavelmente o embasamento do Greenstone Belt do Rio Itapicuru, sugerindo então um provável arco continental como origem da Unidade Maria Preta. Esses dados sugerem que o vulcanismo intermediário a félsico do Greenstone Belt do Rio Itapicuru foi formado ou teve relação direta com subducção. Esta possivelmente teve uma vergência de leste para oeste, evidenciada pela zonalidade na geoquímica das rochas vulcânicas (adakitos à oeste e cálcio-alcalinas a leste). / Abstract: New geochemical data on andesites and dacites of the Maria Preta Unit, Rio Itapicuru Greenstone Belt, revealed two distinct geochemical groups: one of adakitic affinity and another of typical calc-alkaline. The adakitic suite, localized west in the unit, is characterized by high values of Sr/Y and Ti/YN >1. It shows enrichment in LFSE (Low Field Strength Elements) relative to HFSE (High Field Strength Elements) and a moderate rare earth element fractionation. The calc-alkaline suite (CA) shows low Sr/Y ratios, less rare earth elements fractionation and negative Eu anomalies. On the other hand it shows higher incompatible elements abundances (Y, Zr, Th) and high Cr and Ni concentrations. The two suites cannot be linked by fractional crystallization and are derived from different sources (distinct initial Nd ratios). The most probable setting for the formation of CA is partial melting of mantle peridotite modified by hydrous fluids released from a subducting slab, followed by low pressure plagioclase fractionation. The adakite geochemical features require partial melting of hydrous metabasalts at depths high enough to stabilize garnet+hornblende as the residual phase. This suite does not reveal significant interactions with the mantle, as shown by its lower Cr and Ni values than Cenozoic adakites. For an assumed 2170 Ma age, the Sm-Nd isotope data show higher eNd(t) for the adakites (+4,8 to +2,5) than for the calc-alkaline suite (+1,9 to +1,4). These data indicate a juvenile source for the UMP volcanic rocks. U-Pb SHRIMP dating indicates a crystallization age of 2,081 ± 9 Ma for the adakitic volcanic. Inherited Archean zircons (3364, 3017, 3064 Ma) evidence a magma generated at a subduction zone followed by interaction with Archean lithosphere, probably the basement of the Rio Itapicuru Greenstone Belt. The calc-alkaline suite shows low oxygen fugacities at the magma extraction site (between -3 e -1 FMQ). On the other side, the adakites shows higher values (between -1 e +0,5 FMQ), similar to modern adakites formed by a subducting slab melt. This results suggests that the UMP volcanism was formed or was directly connected to a subduction. The geographic position of the two suites, i.e. adakites to the west of the calc-alkaline volcanics, suggests subduction of an oceanic plate to the west. / Mestrado / Geologia e Recursos Naturais / Mestre em Geociências

>Magister Scientiae - MSc / The group of granites on the eastern margin of the Mesoproterozoic Namaqua sector of the polydeformed and highly metamorphosed Namaqua-Natal Province of southern Africa is known as the Keimoes Suite. The suite includes mixtures of diverse rock types not belonging to a single intrusive series and so it should be subdivided into more than one intrusive suite. The exact definition, extent, distribution and petrogenesis of these granites have been poorly defined in the past, with various authors defining the suite differently due to the lack of proper geochronology and geochemical data. The exact contact between the Namaqua sector and Kaapvaal Craton together with the role of the suite to the Namaqua tectonic evolution is still unclear. The granites of the Keimoes Suite are thought to mark the contact between the Namaqua sector and the Kaapvaal Craton. This study seeks to address the above mentioned problems by making use of new geochronology, isotope, major and trace element geochemistry together with petrography. The granites of the Keimoes Suite were previously grouped based on their degree of deformation. The geochronology, undertaken as part of this study, has proven that this classification is unfounded. The degree of foliation in these granites appears to be largely controlled by the abundance of platy minerals, such as biotite and muscovite, together with the intrusion mechanism, with deformational processes, such as shearing, playing a secondary role. The geochronology, together with geochemistry has helped to redefine the previously defined Keimoes Suite so that two well defined separate suites are recognized and the third is poorly defined due to lack of more samples of that age group. The new classification or grouping of the granites of the eastern Namaqua sector allows a more detailed examination of the tectonic evolution of this region. A member of the 1225 to 1200 Ma early syn-tectonic granites, the Josling Granite, shows a strongly developed foliation and was derived from a depleted source with a relatively low continental crustal component. This granite intruded during the time of arc accretion, and is associated with, and partly responsible for the D₁ deformation and M₁ metamorphism recognized in most of the rocks of the eastern terranes of the Namaqua sector. In terms of age, the syn-tectonic granites of the Augrabies Suite extend from 1200 to 1120 Ma and were largely derived from depleted sources with variable but more substantial amounts of continental crustal components as compared to the early syn-tectonic granite. The granites of this suite intruded during the period of peak D₂ deformation with peak magmatism between 1180 - 1135 Ma, and particularly around 1150 Ma, during the peak of metamorphism (M₂) caused by, and associated with these voluminous intrusions. The Keimoes Suite can now be defined as comprising granites of late- to post-tectonic age relative to the 1.2 - 1.08 Ga Namaquan Orogeny with magmatism occurring on the western side of the Kaapvaal Craton. The 1116 to 1066 Ma Keimoes Suite intruded during the stage of the Namaquan Orogeny in which there was continued indentation of the Kaapvaal Craton into the Namaqua sector with wrenching and shearing causing the development of rifting into which the granites intruded. The Keimoes Suite granites were derived from continental crustal sources and incorporated varying degrees of depleted source components. The intrusives and extrusives of this age occured after the main collisional event between the Namaqua Sector and the Kaapvaal Craton and are associated with the D₃ deformational event, imparting the thermal conditions leading to the M₃ metamorphic event of the rocks within both the Kakamas and Areachap Terranes. The suites mark the suture between the Archean Kaapvaal Craton and the Proterozoic Namaqua sector. The compositions of the granites of the individual suites were mainly controlled by the source with the degree of partial melting exerting a major control. The proportion of entrained peritectic assemblages and accessory minerals played a major role in controlling the compositions of the granites, particularly those of the trace elements. Variations within the compositions of the same suite are due to source heterogeneities. Generally, fractionation processes played a secondary role in influencing the composition of the granites. / Council for Geoscience and National Research Foundation

The New Amalfi Sheet is a highly differentiated tholeiitic intrusion which is situated between the towns of Matatiele and Swartberg in East Griqualand. It lies within the Central area of the Karoo Igneous Province. Rock types range from dolerites at the base and top through to a highly differentiated granophyre which is found as a 'sandwich horizon' within the top half of the sheet. The most evolved granophyre represents 15.86% of the initial liquid, which was found to be very similar in composition to the average Lesotho-type magma of Marsh and Eales (1984). The paragenetic sequence was found to be chromite → olivine → plagioclase → pigeonite and augite. Cumulus magnetite and ilmenite enter the paragenetic sequence together with immiscible sulphide droplets after 35% crystallization. In the late stages of crystallization, augite changes composition towards ferrohedenbergite. The reappearance of iron-rich olivine coincides with the disappearance of pigeonite and apatite appears as a cumulus phase for the first time after 70% crystallization. Granophyric intergrowth, which contains coarse perthitic Kfeldspar, becomes the most abundant modal entity within the most evolved granophyres. Differentiation was dominated by fractionation of plagioclase and pyroxene, with subordinate olivine and opaque-oxide fractionation. A minor amount of assimilation of country rock occurred within the topmost granophyres. The intrusion has been dated, using the Rb-Sr isochron method, at 178.37 ± 5.52 Ma. Extensive subsolidus deuteric alteration has resulted in the formation of a complete series of hydrothermally altered clinopyroxenes which are enriched in CaO but depleted in TiO₂ compared to the unaltered magmatic clinopyroxenes. It has also resulted in the formation of abundant vermiform ilmenite in the most evolved rocks, recognized by the fact that this phase is enriched in MnO compared to magmatic ilmenites. The very iron-rich orthopyroxene, ferrohypersthene, was found to have crystallized, during cooling of the sheet from the intercumulus liquid. Olivine in the dolerite re-equilibrated with the intercumulus liquid, becoming more iron-rich in composition.

Les komatiites sont des roches volcaniques ultrabasiques caractéristiques de l'Archéen et du Protérozoïque. Nous présentons ici une étude de la pétrogénèse des komatiites de la ceinture de Barberton en Afrique du Sud. Celle-ci comprend un modèle de fusion original bâti à partir de la constatation expérimentale qu'à très forte profondeur (P>13GPa), les liquides komatiitiques sont plus denses que la péridotite solide et donc ne peuvent pas s'échapper de leur source. Nous proposons que la fusion des sources des komatiites de Barberton ait commencée à une pression supérieure à 13GPa dans le manteau mais que les liquides produits soient restés retenus dans les sources jusqu'à ce que celles-ci n'aient dépassé, au cours de leur remonté, la limite de densité à laquelle le liquide devient moins dense que le résidu solide (à ~13GPa). Alors, les liquides auraient commencé à quitter leur source, d'abord doucement, puis de plus en plus vite alors que la différence de densité entre le liquide et le résidu solide s'accroissait. Les komatiites appauvries en Al, qui sont les plus abondantes à Barberton, auraient été produites par les premiers liquides qui ont quitté la source peu après le franchissement de la limite de densité. Les liquides qui quittèrent ensuite cette même source à moins forte pression, auraient formé les komatiites enrichies en Al. Les komatiites non-appauvries en Al auraient été produites par le même mécanisme mais par des sources de température potentielle plus forte. Une étude parallèle des trois systèmes isotopiques Sm-Nd, Lu-Hf et Re-Os nous a permis de contraindre l'histoire chimique des sources de komatiites de Barberton. Les systèmes Sm-Nd et Lu-Hf indiquent des sources appauvries et le système Re-Os une source chondritique. Nous proposons que les sources des komatiites aient été appauvries par l'extraction de croûte, mais qu'ensuite, leur composition en Re et Os aient été ramenées à leur valeur chondritique par le dernier épisode massif d‟accrétion de la Terre : « le vernis tardif ». / Komatiites are ultrabasic volcanic rocks characteristic of the Archean and Proterozoic eras. In this study, we investigate the petrogenesis of the komatiites of the Barberton greenstone belt in South Africa. We present an original melting model developed on the experimental observation that, at great depths (P>13GPa), komatiitic liquids are denser than solid peridotite, and therefore cannot escape their source. We propose that the fusion of the sources of Barberton komatiites began at pressures greater than 13GPa in the mantle but that the liquids produced were retained in the sources until they crossed, during their ascent, the density limit at which the liquid becomes less dense than the residue (at ~13GPa). Then, the liquids would have started to escape their source, slowly at first, and faster and faster as the density contrast between liquid and solid residue increased. Al-depleted komatiites, which are the most common type in the Barberton belt, were produced as the first liquids that escaped the source soon after they crossed the density limit. The liquids that later escaped the same source at shallower depth, formed Al-enriched komatiites. Al-undepleted komatiites were produced by the same mechanism but from hotter sources. From complementary studies of the three isotopic systems Sm-Nd, Lu-Hf and Re-Os, we constrained the chemical history of the sources of Barberton komatiites. The Sm-Nd and Lu-Hf systems indicate depleted sources whereas the Re-Os system indicates a chondritic source. We propose that the sources of the komatiites had become depleted by the extraction of early crust, and that their compositions in Re and Os were then reset to their chondritic value by contamination by material from the last massive accretion stage of the Earth: “the late veneer”.

>Magister Scientiae - MSc / The Platreef, is a contact-type pyroxenitic reef in the Northern Limb of the Bushveld Complex, enriched in platinum group elements (PGE) and base metal sulfides (BMS). Relatively subdued mining in the Platreef, compared to RLS, has been attributed to limited knowledge regarding irregular distribution, complex style and genesis of PGE mineralisation in the Platreef. This study was, therefore, aimed at investigating the petrogenesis of the Platreef, particularly to evaluate whether the formation of the ore reefs resulted from a single or multiple sill-like magma intrusions. The study also sought to unveil the interplay of fractional crystallisation, hydrothermal fluid activities, floor rock and crustal contamination on the formation of Platreef types, PGE mineralisation and the magma source.

The Weinsberg Composite Pluton, located in the southern part of the Moldanubian Batholith is a large intrusive body with complex internal fabrics, petrogenesis and emplacement processes. On the basis of geochemistry and zircon morphology classification the dominating lithology in the northeastern part of the pluton seems to be the second type of the Weinsberg granitoids (WbG II). Based on the integration of the structural, petrological and geochemical data set acquired from the investigated area, the interpretation of geodynamic evolution and emplacement of the eastern part of the Weinsberg Pluton could be proposed. This interpretation invokes: (a) indentation and underthrusting of a continental microplate (Brunia) in the east at around ~340-330 Ma, driving mantle delamination and subsequent heating and anatexis in the metapelitic lower crust as the heterogeneous source for Weinsberg- and Eisgarn-types of granitoids; (b) subsequent growth of a large metamorphic dome along the edge of the Brunia indentor followed by polyphase emplacement of entire eastern part of the Moldanubian Batholith around ~330-325 Ma including the Weinsberg Composite Pluton in the south; (c) increasing role of the N-S shortening and associated NW-SE dextral shearing along localized shear zones which caused the prevailing...

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