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Crustal contamination and insights into diachronous changes toward modern tectonics: evidence from Hf-Nd-O-Pb isotope of sanukitoids from the Amazonian craton




AuthorsCosta do Nascimento, Aline; Carvalho de Oliveira, Davis; Heilimo, Esa; Galarza, Marco Antonio; Gabriel, Eleilson Oliveira; Whitehouse, Martin; Kurhila, Matti; Lamarão, Cláudio Nery

PublisherElsevier

Publication year2025

Journal:Geoscience Frontiers

Article number102172

Volume16

ISSN1674-9871

eISSN2588-9192

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.gsf.2025.102172

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Abstract

Archean sanukitoids provide crucial insights into crust-mantle interactions during the early Earth’s geodynamic evolution. However, the role of crustal contamination in their genesis remains uncertain. Sanukitoids identified in the Sapucaia subdomain of the southern Carajás Province are represented by two plutons Água Limpa and Água Azul, collectively referred to as the Água Limpa sanukitoid suite. These plutons are compositionally similar to low-Ti sanukitoids (< 0.63 % TiO2) and their zircon isotopic data record a short period of magmatic activity around ca. 2.87 Ga. Sanukitoids zircons reveal εHf(t) values ranging from –3.31 to + 2.14, Hf and Nd model ages between 2.91 Ga and 3.28 Ga, whole-rock εNd(t) values from –1.64 to + 1.76, and δ18O values ranging from 5.0 ‰ to 7.6 ‰. The Pb isotopic compositions in K-feldspar (µ > 10) suggests a Mesoarchean mantle source affected by slight crustal contribution and/or contamination. Result of geochemical modelling indicates that the sanukitoids were formed by ∼ 15 % partial melting of mantle peridotite previously enriched by ∼ 30 % of slab-derived melts, with orthopyroxene, garnet, clinopyroxene, phlogopite, and magnetite as residual phases. The integration of our data with previously published results leads us to suggest that modern-style plate tectonics may have initiated along the northern Carajás Province during the Mesoarchean, while the Rio Maria domain to the south remained dominated by mantle plume-driven crustal growth and vertical tectonics.


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NordSIMS is supported through funding by the Swedish Museum of Natural History and the Swedish Research Council via infrastructure grant 2021-00276. This is NordSIMS publication number 807. This work received financial support from the Brazilian Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) through a PhD scholarship grant (140684/2021-2) and Productivity grants (311647/2019-7 and 312151/2023-3) and Research project (406227/2023-3). Additional funding was provided by the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) through an exchange program (PDSE-2024 grant: 88881.934051/2024-01).


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