UNIVERSIDADE DE BRASÍLIA - INSTITUTO DE GEOCIÊNCIAS
DISSERTAÇÃO DE MESTRADO No 197
MARCUS LEANDRO DE ANDRADE TEIXEIRA
INTEGRAÇÃO DE DADOS AEROGEOFÍSICOS, GEOLÓGICOS E ISOTÓPICOS DO LIMITE NORTE DO COMPLEXO TAMBORIL - SANTA QUITÉRIA – CE (PROVÍNCIA BORBOREMA)DATA DA DEFESA: 31/10/2005
Palavras Chaves: Província Borborema, Domínio Ceará Central, Aerogeofísica, Geologia Isotópica
RESUMO
Um dos problemas básicos nos modelos de reconstrução do Gondwana ocidental é a localização dos limites dos blocos colisionais, geralmente representados por sistemas de nappes com metamorfismo inverso e seqüências ofiolíticas geradas em zonas de suturas. A região do Ceará Central na Província Borborema, nordeste do Brasil, representa um destes limites formados durante a convergência e aglutinação dos crátons Oeste Africano, Amazônico e São Francisco/Congo no Neoproterozóico.
UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA- INSTITUTE OF GEOSCIENCES
MSc THESIS No 197
MARCUS LEANDRO DE ANDRADE TEIXEIRA
DATE OF ORAL PRESENTATION: 31/10/2005INTEGRATION OF AEROGEOPHYSICAL, GEOLOGICAL AND ISOTOPIC DATA OF THE NORTHERN LIMIT OF THE TAMBORIL COMPLEX- SANTA QUITÉRIA – STATE OF CEARÁ (BORBOREMA PROVINCE)
Key Words:
Borborema Province, Ceará Central, Aerogeophysics; GeochronologyABSTRACT
One basic problem in the reconstruction models of Western
Gondwana is the location of collisional blocks boundaries, generally
characterized by inverse metamorphic nappe systems and ophiolitic sequences
related to suture zones. The Ceará Central, in the Borborema Province, NE
Brazil, represents one of these limits, formed during convergence and
amalgamation of West African, Amazonian and São Francisco Cratons, in the end of
the Neoproterozoic.
The study area corresponds to the
northern boundary of central portion of the Tamboril - Santa Quitéria complex,
between the cities of Santa Quitéria, Varjota and Forquilha. Integration of
geologic, aerogeophysic and geochronologic data supporting geologic mapping at
scale of 1 50:000, allows recognizing three main units: supracrustal sequence,
composed of garnet schist, garnet contend migmatite gneiss and amphibole gneiss;
one granitic-migmatitic complex, called Tamboril - Santa Quitéria, characterized
by the diatexites and metatexites of granodiriotic and monzogranitic
composition, tonalite and metaggabro. Low angle shear zones represent the main
boundary between the supracrustals and the granitoid complex, and define a
northwestern sense of tectonic transport of the nappes. Two large sinistral
strike slip shear zones are developed in the area, the N-S Varjota ductile shear
zone, and the NW-SE Rio Groaíras brittle fault, in the NE portion of the study
area.
The supracrustal sequence is characterized by intercalation of low
counts in the K, Th e U channels, with high counts of Th, locally presenting
high counts in the three individual channels. Rocks from the Tamboril - Santa
Quitéria complex are characterized by high counts in the K channel in the study
area, intermediate counts in the Th and U channels, and low counts in the three
individual channels occur in the metaggabro in the central portion of the
complex. Ordovician granites, in particular the Pajé Suíte, is characterized by
elevate counts in the K channel and intermediate counts in the Th and U
channels. Fault and fractures of NE and NW are well delimited by vertical
derivate images of zero order and total horizontal gradient. All these products
mark the main shear zone system in the area, denoted by low magnetic
susceptibility of N-S direction and 1 km width.
Isotopic and geocrhonologic date allow to discriminate differents
magmatics and deformationals episodes that affect the rocks in the region, and
to suggest an evolutionary model for the area. The crystallization of igneous
bodies of the Tamboril - Santa Quitéria Complex is marked by ages between 630 to
660 Ma, obtained by U-Pb zircon method, in gabbro and diatexite. The
migmatization process took place ca 615 Ma with later cooling until 540 Ma. The
last event that was register in the area at 460 Ma corresponds to the
crystallization ages of the Pajé Suite. Nd isotopes allow to identify a mixed
sources of Paleoproterozoic and Neoproterozoic ages in both the Tamboril - Santa
Quitéria rocks and the supracrustal sequence Neoproterozoic juvenile crust
material, indicated by positive values of ε(Nd)
in the amphibole gneisses. A dominant Paleoproterozoic source is defined for the
Ordovician granites.