Petrogenesis of LREE-rich pegmatitic granite dykes in the central Grenville Province by partial melting of Paleoproterozoic-Archean metasedimentary rocks: Evidence from zircon U-Pb-Hf-O isotope and trace element analyses

• Published in: Precambrian Research
• Main Authors: Turlin, François, Vanderhaeghe, Olivier, Gervais, Félix, André-Mayer, Anne-Sylvie, Moukhsil, Abdelali, Zeh, Armin, Solgadi, Fabien, Iptn, Iptn
• Other Authors: GeoRessources, Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre de recherches sur la géologie des matières premières minérales et énergétiques (CREGU)-Université de Lorraine (UL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Géosciences Environnement Toulouse (GET), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), École Polytechnique de Montréal (EPM), Ministère de l’Énergie et des Ressources naturelles, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques (CRPG), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Lorraine (UL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), LabEx RESSOURCES21, ANR-10-LABX-0021,RESSOURCES21,Strategic metal resources of the 21st century(2010)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2019
• Subjects: Zircon; U-Pb-Hf-O isotopes; Trace element; Grenville Province; Pegmatitic granite; LREE mineralization; [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences; Canada; Rigolet; Knob Lake
• Online Access: https://hal.univ-lorraine.fr/hal-02166886; https://hal.univ-lorraine.fr/hal-02166886/document; https://hal.univ-lorraine.fr/hal-02166886/file/Turlin%20et%20al._2019_PR_Accepted%20manuscript.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2019.02.009

International audience The Allochthonous Belt of the central Grenville Province in Quebec (Canada) hosts LREE-rich pegmatitic granite dykes (PGDs) intrusive into orthogneisses and migmatitic paragneisses. Zircon crystals from a monazite-bearing PGD and two allanite-bearing PGDs of the Lac Okaopéo region were investigated. Concordia U-Pb ages of 1004.2 ± 2.1 Ma, 1001.9 ± 3.9 Ma and 1004.2 ± 2.3 Ma, respectively, indicate that emplacement of the dykes occurred during the early-Rigolet orogenic phase. Trace element contents (U, Yb, Y) of zircon grains, their subchondritic εHf(1003 Ma) values from −4.7 to −11.8, Hf model ages from 2.05 to 2.44 Ga, and predominant supra-mantle δ18OV-SMOW values (> 5.3‰) indicate that the dykes were formed by partial melting of Paleoproterozoic-Archean metasedimentary rocks equivalent to those exposed in the Parautochthonous Belt (Knob Lake Group paragneisses), and located beneath the thickened Allochthonous Belt. This implies that the Parautochthonous Belt is present beneath the Allochthonous Belt hosting the LREE-rich PGDs and that it was affected by horizontal ductile flow towards the north for at least 80 km where it is currently exhumed along the Grenville Front.