Abstract

Late Carboniferous U–Pb ages have been measured on igneous zircon from late- and post-D3 Sn-bearing two-mica granites from the Gouveia area in the Central Iberian Zone. Inherited zircon from these granites is mainly of Neoproterozoic age, a small amount is Paleoproterozoic and Cambrian, and none is Mesoproterozoic. The most likely source of the granites is Gondwanan sediments derived from the West African Craton and surrounding Pan-African belts. Rare inherited zircon of Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian and Carboniferous age is of similar age to zircon in synorogenic greywackes and conglomerates of the NW Iberian Massif. Ordovician granitic rocks might have contributed to the source. Igneous zircon (310.1±4.3Ma) from a late-D3 granite is older than coexisting monazite (301.4±2.6Ma). The monazite (re)crystallized, and is of similar age to zircon from a post-D3 granite (297.3±3.1Ma) that surrounds this granite. Monazite from post-D3 granites is of similar age (~289Ma), but slightly younger than the zircon from the same granites (297.3±3.1 and 302.6±6.7Ma). The 39Ar–40Ar age of muscovite from Variscan late- and post-D3 granites of the Gouveia area is the same (~286Ma), showing that the area was heated above ~350°C in the Late Carboniferous–Early Permian. Muscovite from Variscan late-D3 granites suffered Ar loss and muscovite from Variscan post-D3 granites records cooling after emplacement.

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