The Precambrian/Lower Cambrian pluton from Vila Nova (Central Portugal)

Authors

  • A. I.M. Reis Earth Sciences Department, FCTUC. Geosciences Centre
  • M. M.V.G. Silva Earth Sciences Department, FCTUC. Geosciences Centre
  • I. M.H.R. Antunes Polytechnic Institute. Geosciences Centre

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3989/egeol.40142.096

Keywords:

granite, U-Pb isotopic data, cadomian magmatism

Abstract


The Vila Nova pluton is a small, Pre-Variscan granitic body that intruded rocks of the Central Iberian Zone near the contact with the Ossa Morena Zone and is affected by several shear zones and faults. Its contact metamorphic aureole is constituted by micaschist with porphyroblasts in the outer zone and hornfels in the inner zone. Small metasedimentar xenoliths are dispersed all over the body. The pluton has a great mineralogical heterogeneity with pronounced variations in muscovite/biotite and plagioclase/microcline contents and is classified as granite, granodiorite or tonalite. It is a leucogranite, highly peraluminous (A/CNK = 1.31 – 1.64), magnesian and calc-alkaline to alkaline-calcic. The variation diagrams show curvilinear trends with silica. Eu/Eu* = 0.47 – 0.77 and there is a slight enrichment in LREE relative to HREE. The normalized diagrams indicated dominantly crustal granite, related to subduction. U-Pb isotopic data of zircon and monazite gives 540-542 Ma age.

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2010-06-30

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Reis, A. I., Silva, M. M., & Antunes, I. M. (2010). The Precambrian/Lower Cambrian pluton from Vila Nova (Central Portugal). Estudios Geológicos, 66(1), 51–56. https://doi.org/10.3989/egeol.40142.096

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