Abstract
Geological and petrological studies of rocks were conducted to reproduce the succession of endogenic processes in the central and northeastern parts of the Lapland Granulite Belt along the course of the Lotta River. Mineralogical-geochemical data on zircon from these rocks (the anatomy of zircon crystals seen in BSE and CL imagery; U, Th, Hf, and Y concentrations; and REE patterns) and their crystallization temperatures (calculated using the Ti concentration) make it possible to correlate the newly obtained geochronologic data with the sequence of metamorphic events inferred from petrological data. Three major episodes of enderbite-forming processes are distinguished: (i) early episode at 1.99 Ga, (ii) main episode at 1.940–1.925 Ga; and (iii) late episode at 1.89 Ga. The early medium-pressure metamorphic episode is dated at 1.97–1.96 Ga. The diatexis of the quartz-feldspar granulites with the derivation of garnet plagioclase leucogranites took place at 1.917–1.909 Ga.
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