Abstract

The Seringa Granite, with 2250 km² of outcropping area represents the biggest granite batholith of the Carajas Province. It is intrusive in Archean units of the Rio Maria Granite-Greenstone Terrane, located in the southeastern of the Amazonian Craton. The Seringa Granite is formed by two great petrographic groups: A) monzogranite rocks, represented by biotite-amphibole coarse-grained monzogranite, amphibolebiotite coarse-grained monzogranite; B) syenogranite rocks, represented by, porphyry amphibole-biotite syenogranite, heterogranular leuco-syenogranite, leuco-microsyenogranite, and heterogranular amphibolebiotite syenogranite. Biotite and amphibole are the varietal minerals and zircon, apatite, opaque, and allanite the accessories minerals. The Seringa Granite is subalkaline, metaluminous to peraluminous, display K2O/ Na2O ratios between 1 and 2 and FeOt/(FeOt +MgO) between 0.86 and 0.97. The patterns of REE show increase in negative europium anomalies from the less evolved facies to the more evolved facies. In these sense, it is enriched in light REE parallel to the impoverishment of heavy REE. It shows geochemical affinities with within-plate ferroan granites, of the A2-subtype and oxidized A-type granites. The fi eld relations and the petrographic and geochemical features of the Seringa Granite are not consistent with the evolution of its facies from a single magma pulse by fractional crystallization. The Seringa Granite show petrographic, geochemical and magnetic susceptibility properties that suggest its inclusion in the Serra dos Carajas Suite.

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  • Geology, Petrography and Geochemistry of the Seringa Batholith, Carajás Province, SSE of the Pará

  • The Seringa Granite, with 2250 km2 of outcropping area represents the biggest granite batholith of the Carajás Province. It is intrusive in Archean units of the Rio Maria Granite-Greenstone Terrane, located in the southeastern of the Amazonian Craton

  • The Seringa Granite is formed by two great petrographic groups: A) monzogranite rocks, represented by biotite-amphibole coarse-grained monzogranite, amphibolebiotite coarse-grained monzogranite; B) syenogranite rocks, represented by, porphyry amphibole-biotite syenogranite, heterogranular leuco-syenogranite, leuco-microsyenogranite, and heterogranular amphibolebiotite syenogranite

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Petrography and Geochemistry of the Seringa Batholith, Carajás Province, SSE of the Pará. Granito Seringa apresenta maiores semelhanças petrográficas, geoquímicas e de suscetibilidade magnética com as rochas da Suíte Serra dos Carajás, podendo ser enquadrado nesta importante suíte granitoide.

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