Isotopic (Sr-Nd) signatures of the Pedregal Granite and associated migmatite rocks

O complexo granito-migmatítico sinorogénico varisco em estudo aflora na Zona Centro Ibérica, noroeste de Portugal. O granito do Pedregal, com idade de 311±5 Ma, é um corpo alongado na direção NW-SE que intrui micaxistos estaurolíticos, rochas gnaisso-migmatíticas bandadas e, localmente, contacta com brechas ígneas. Trata-se de um granito de duas micas, de grão fino a médio, com pequenos nódulos biotíticos (1 a 2 cm). As rochas gnaisso-migmatíticas associadas, de carácter metatexítico estromático, evidenciam bandas leucocratas quartzo-feldspáticas (leucossoma) predominantes e sem foliação, alternando com bandas micáceas (paleossoma) onde ocorre granada em intercrescimento com quartzo (< 1 cm). Os dados isotópicos de Sr-Nd mostram ausência de sobreposição das composições iniciais do granito e das rochas gnaisso-migmatíticas, em aparente contradição com dados geoquímicos apresentados previamente. A inexistência daquela sobreposição é possivelmente resultante quer de desequilíbrio isotópico de Nd durante o processo de fusão parcial, quer de moscovitização tardia, acompanhada de incremento da razão Rb/Sr, no granito.The synorogenic Variscan granite-migmatite complex in study outcrops in the Central Iberian Zone, northern Portugal. The Pedregal granite dated of 311±5 Ma has an NW-SE elongated shape and is intrusive in staurolite-micaschist and banded gneiss-migmatite rocks, with local igneous breccias along the contact. This granite is a fine to medium-grained two mica rock with small biotitic nodules (1 to 2 cm). The associated gneiss-migmatite rocks of stromatic metatexitic character are banded, showing alternating of quartz-feldspathic leucosomes without foliation and subordinated micaceous paleosomes disclosing garnet - quartz intergrowths (< 1 cm). The Sr-Nd isotopic results for the Pedregal granite and associated gneiss-migmatite rocks indicate quite different compositions, in apparent contradiction with geochemical data previously presented. Their isotopic heterogeneity could be explained by Nd isotopic disequilibrium developed both during the melting event and late muscovitization, with Rb/Sr enrichment in the granite

Building up of a nested granite intrusion: magnetic fabric, gravity modelling and fluid inclusion planes studies in Santa Eulália Plutonic Complex (Ossa Morena Zone, Portugal)

AbstractThe Santa Eulália Plutonic Complex (SEPC), located in the Ossa Morena Zone (south Portugal), is composed of a medium- to coarse-grained pink granite (G0-type) and a central grey medium-grained biotite granite (G1-type). Available Rb–Sr data indicates an age of 290 Ma. An emplacement model for the SEPC is proposed, taking into account magnetic fabric, 2D gravity modelling and fluid inclusion planes studies. The G0 and G1 types demonstrate different magnetic behaviour: G0 is considered a magnetite-type granite and G1 is an ilmenite-type granite. The formation of G0 required oxidized conditions related to the interaction of mafic rocks with a felsic magma. The 2D gravity modelling and subvertical magnetic lineations show that the feeder zone of the SEPC is located in the eastern part of the pluton, confirming the role of the Assumar and Messejana Variscan faults in the process of ascent and emplacement. The magma emplacement was controlled by ENE–WSW planar anisotropies related to the final brittle stages of the Variscan Orogeny. The emplacement of the two granites was almost synchronous as shown by their gradational contacts in the field. The magnetic fabric however suggests emplacement of the G0-type first, closely followed by emplacement of the G1-type, pushing the G0 laterally which becomes more anisotropic towards the margin. The G1-type became flattened, acquiring a dome-like structure. The SEPC is a nested pluton with G0-type granite assuming a tabular flat shape and G1-type forming a rooted dome-like structure. After emplacement, SEPC recorded increments of the late Variscan stress field documented by fluid inclusion planes in quartz.</jats:p

Dinâmica da nutrição de Metynnis cf. roosevelti Eigenmann (Characidae, Myleinae), da Lagoa Redonda, Nízia Floresta, Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil The dynamics of nutrition in Metynnis cf. roosevelti Eigenmann (Characidae, Myleinae), from Lagoa Redonda, Nízia Floresta, Rio Grande do norte, Brazil

<abstract language="eng">The time of full stomach repletion and fat condition was determined through an analysis of the average stomach repletion index, condition faclor and relative frequency of repletion for different periods of the year. Condition factor was influenced by weight gain in the stomaches, main from April to June