Abstract
The Porongos Metamorphic Complex (PMC) is composed of supracrustal rocks, predominantly pelitic micaschist, quartzite and felsic metavolcanic rocks. It represents the remnants of a Neoproterozoic sedimentary basin developed in the western Gondwana, now located in the central section of Dom Feliciano Belt in southern Brazil. Isotope signature comparison and U-Pb ages shows that there are at least three main source-areas for the Porongos sediments: (i) one that can be related to Paleoproterozoic terrains; (ii) a younger component with Mesoproterozoic (1.5 - 1.2 Ga) ages; and (iii), a Neoproterozoic source with magmatic zircons (0.8 Ga), with relative age distribution mostly between 1.7 and 1.0 Ga, T DM ages between 2.58 and 1.71 Ga, and younger ages of ca. 1.21 Ga, which can be related to 1.4 - 1.0 African signature sources. Ten concordant analysis obtained in zircon grains from a metarenite rock yield 206 Pb/ 238 U median age of 802 +26/-33 Ma, which is related to metavolcanic samples from PMC and correlates with the Neoproterozoic Cerro Bori Continental Arc, indicating a syn-depositional volcanism in the sedimentary record. The depositional setting for these sequences can be understood as an evolution between a passive margin developed after 1.6 Ga and a terrain-collisional setting (ca. 570 Ma). doi: 10.12957/jse.2016.22722
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