Browsing by Author "McNaughton, Neal Jesse"

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    Birthplace of the São Francisco craton, Brazil : evidence from 3.60-3.64 Ga gneisses of the Mairi gneiss complex.
    (2020) Oliveira, Elson Paiva de; McNaughton, Neal Jesse; Zincone, Stéfano Albino; Talavera, Cristina
    Records of Earth's primitive crust are scarce. Eoarchean (older than 3.6 Ga) banded mafic to felsic gneisses have been discovered in the São Francisco Craton, Brazil, pushing back by over 100 million years the oldest gneisses known to date in South America (3.5 Ga). Zircon U-Pb data yield rock ages from 3598 Ma to 3642 Ma with a few ca. 3.65 to 3.69 Ga grains suggesting even older rocks in the area. Zircon grains show significantly negative to nearly chondritic initial εHf values and two-stage model ages from 3.82 Ga to 4.33 Ga, which may indicate the existence of a recycled Hadean to early Eoarchean crust in the region. The felsic gneisses are chemically similar to the low-pressure Tonalite-Trondhjemite-Granodiorite association whereas the mafic gneisses have geochemical signatures that resemble within-plate basaltic andesite to andesite of Iceland (icelandites). The results are relevant to constrain the composition of Earth's first continental crust.
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    Estudos químicos, físicos e isotópicos em zircões.
    (1996) Hartmann, Leo Afraneo; Vasconcellos, Marcos Antonio Zen; Leite, J. D.; Takehara, Lucy; Remus, Marcus Vinicius Dorneles; Suita, Marcos Tadeu de Freitas; McNaughton, Neal Jesse
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    Provenance and age delimitation of Quadrilátero Ferrífero sandstones based on zircon U–Pb isotopes.
    (2006) Hartmann, Leo Afraneo; Endo, Issamu; Suita, Marcos Tadeu de Freitas; Santos, João Orestes Schneider; Frantz, José Carlos; Carneiro, Maurício Antônio; McNaughton, Neal Jesse; Barley, Mark E.
    The Quadrilátero Ferrífero has some of the largest iron and gold deposits in the world and is a major geotectonic unit of the São Francisco Craton in Brazil. U–Pb zircon SHRIMP geochronology of six detrital sedimentary and metasedimentary rocks (114 zircon crystals, 118 spot analyses) has improved the understanding of the sedimentary processes and provenance ages of both rocks and the associated iron formation. The age of deposition of the iron formation is constrained between 2.58 and 2.42 Ga. The presence of an old Paleoarchean crust is dated in detrital zircon crystals, including the oldest zircon in South America (3809G3 Ma). Only high-Th/U, magmatic zircon crystals are present in the dated sedimentary rocks, and these indicate that the crust of the region was formed mostly during the Jequie´ cycle (six age peaks between 3055 and 2635 Ma). This time span ofw420 m.y. is similar to the duration of a long-lived Wilson cycle. Most of the Rio das Velhas Basin was filled during approximately 30 m.y. between 2746 and 2717 Ma, though volcanism probably started earlier. The youngest detrital zircon age from the Minas Supergroup indicates that the intracratonic basin fill, including the iron formation, was deposited after 2580 Ma. Therefore, the crust was cratonized shortly after the intrusion of minor granitic bodies at around 2.62–2.58 Ga. A large gap in orogenic activity is indicated by the absence of zircon ages of 2580–2182 Ma.
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    The Statherian itabirite-bearing sequence from the Morro Escuro Ridge, Santa Maria de Itabira, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
    (2015) Braga, Flávia Cristina Silveira; Rosière, Carlos Alberto; Queiroga, Gláucia Nascimento; Rolim, Vassily Khoury; Santos, João Orestes Schneider; McNaughton, Neal Jesse
    The itabirite-bearing metasedimentary sequence from Morro Escuro Ridge comprises the basal units of the Espinhaço Supergroup and makes up a small tectonic inlier developed during one of the Brasiliano orogenic events (800-500 Ma), amongst horses of the Archean TTG gneisses, including sheared granites of the anorogenic Borrachudos Suite (~1700 Ma). The metasedimentary rocks are comprised of low-to intermediate-amphibolite facies schists, quartzites, conglomerates and banded iron formation (itabirite) correlatable with the sequences of the Serro Group, which underlies the metasedimentary rocks of the Espinhaço Supergroup in the Serra da Serpentina Ridge. A maximum Statherian deposition age (1668 Ma) was established using SHRIMP UePb isotopic constraints on zircon grains from conglomerate and quartzite units overlying the itabirite. The itabirite is predominantly hematitic and its geochemical characteristics are typical of a Lake Superior-type BIF deposited in a platformal, suboxic to anoxic environment distant from Fe-bearing hydrothermal vents. Close to the contact zone with amphibolites of the Early Neoproterozoic Pedro Lessa mafic suite, an increase of the magnetite content and crystallization of metasomatic Mg-hornblende and Ce-allanite can be observed. These mineralogical changes developed preferentially along the igneous contact zone but are probably co-genetic with the formation of alteration haloes in zircon grains during the Neoproterozoic Brasiliano orogeny (506 ± 6 Ma).