Evidence for a major crustal dislocation in the Hodgkinson Province,North Queensland

Several Late Palaeozoic granites which intrude strata of the Silurian‐Devonian Hodgkinson Province, north Queensland, display pronounced west‐northwest‐east‐southeast orientations, as do a suite of brittle structures that have affected both the plutons and country rocks. These features define a 20 km‐wide, west‐northwest‐trending zone, here named the Desailly Structure, which traverses the Hodgkinson Province and extends west across the Palmerville Fault into the Proterozoic Yambo Inlier. Deformation within the Desailly Structure was heterogeneously partitioned into zones of west‐northwest‐east‐southeast faulting separated by tracts of competent country rock. The latter contain a pervasive north‐south‐trending structural grain which locally controlled pluton emplacement and resulted in a meridional orientation of many granitoid bodies. Initiation of the Desailly Structure is attributed to have occurred syn‐ to post‐D₂ of the regional deformation history. It was reactivated in the Hunter‐Bowen Orogeny (D₄), with the zone expressing an overall sinistral sense of displacement.     

The Panafrican Stratoid Granites of Madagascar: Alkaline Magmatism in a Post-Collisional Extensional Setting

A major alkali province of late Panafrican age occupies centralMadagascar and takes the form of a thick sequence of ‘stratoid’(sheet-like)granites emplaced in a mid-crustal gneissic basement This alkalinemagmatism has been interpreted as a consequence of extensionaltectonics accompanying the collapse of the Mozambique belt.The rocks belong to three petrographic types: subsolvus granites,hypersolvus alkaline granites and syenites. Major and traceelement analyses have typical A-type characteristics. Two distinctmagmatic suites are recognized: a mildly alkaline suite includingall the subsolvus granites and a strongly alkaline suite includingthe hypersolvus alkaline granites and the syenites. We proposethat the mildly alkaline suite was derived from a granodioriticcrustal protolith. Some of the strongly alkaline granites andthe quartz syenites display low ¹⁸O isotopic signatures of around+6.The parental magmas for this suite are most probably of mantlederivation. The more evolved compositions are consistent withcrystal fractionation processes. Contemporaneous alkaline silicicplutonismoccurs in many parts of the Panafrican belt of Eastern Africa;however, sheet-like intrusions have rarely been described. Asa large-scale province, the nearest analogues of the stratoidgranites of Madagascar are the rapakivi granites of earlierProterozoic age in Scandinavia and Greenland. KEY WORDS: alkaline granite; Madagascar; Panafrican; pastcollisional magmatism ^*Corresponding author     

Geochronology and geochemistry of Ordovician plutons in the Erguna Block (NE China): further insights into the tectonic evolution of the Xing’an–Mongolia Orogenic Belt

ABSTRACT

The Ordovician plutons in the Erguna Block, NE China, can be classified into two groups: Early Ordovician diorites with zircon U–Pb ages ranging from 486 to 485 Ma and Middle Ordovician gabbros and granites with zircon U–Pb ages ranging from 466 to 463 Ma. The diorites are calc-alkaline in nature and are characterized by weak to moderate enrichments of large ion lithophile elements (LILE) and light rare earth elements (LREE) relative to high field strength elements (HFSE) and heavy rare earth elements (HREE). The gabbros and granites have high total alkali contents, and all samples are enriched in LREE and LILE and depleted in HFSE such as Nb, Ta, and Ti. Isotopically, Early Ordovician diorites display values that are less radiogenic [ε_Hf(t) = + 9.9–+16.8] compared to those of Middle Ordovician gabbros [ε_Hf(t) = ? 3.0–+5.0]. Middle Ordovician granites have positive ε_Hf(t) values of +1.4 to +4.3 and two-stage Hf model ages (T_DM2) of 1167 to 1356 Ma. These data indicate that the diorites may have been generated by the partial melting of a recently metasomatized mantle source, whereas the gabbros and granites may have been formed by the partial melting of enriched lithospheric mantle and Mesoproterozoic crust, respectively. Our results, combined with other regional results, suggest that Early Ordovician magmatism was likely associated with the northward subduction of the Heihe–Xilinhot oceanic plate beneath the Erguna–Xing’an Block, whereas the Middle Ordovician gabbros and granites were most likely formed in an extensional setting controlled by the rollback of this subducted oceanic plate.     

龙泉关韧性剪切带同变形花岗岩的构造特征及其独居石定年

龙泉关韧性剪切带强变形部位发育一系列平行剪切带走向展布的花岗岩脉体，构造变形特征表明它们可能是同变形花岗岩，是剪切作用下围岩部分熔融的产物。通过独居石电子探针定年，测得龙泉关韧性剪切带的年龄分别为：主变形幕发生于1877～1846Ma，第2个变形幕发生于1812-1782Ma，晚期1725Ma左右又经历了流体活动。龙泉关韧性剪切带的发生、发展与华北克拉通中部带古元古代晚期的变质事件同期，是东、西陆块碰撞的一个主要剪切带。     

Discussion: Macrofaunal zonation of Middle Permian coal sequences in Sydney Basin

Three suites of alkaline granite can be recognised in the Narraburra Complex at the triple junction of the Tumut, Giralambone‐Goonumbla and Wagga Zones, central southern New South Wales. On the basis of K₂O/Na₂O ratios, biotite and hornblende‐biotite potassic I‐type granites have been assigned to the Gilmore Hill (K₂O/Na₂O 1.00) and Barmedman Suites (K₂O/Na₂O > 1.2). These are metaluminous to weakly peraluminous suites that crystallised from high‐temperature,reduced magmas with the least fractionated members of each suite having high Ba and low Rb abundances compared to other Lachlan Fold Belt granites. Fractionated members of these suites have high abundances of high‐field‐strength elements, similar to those observed in A‐type granites. Arfvedsonite and aegirine‐arfvedsonite granites have been assigned to the peralkaline Narraburra Suite. Granites from this suite have chemistry consistent with them being the intrusive equivalents of comendites and they are also similar in some respects to A‐type granites: they have, for example, particularly high abundances of Zr. The A‐type signature is, however, at least in part the result of strong fractionation. Total‐rock Rb–Sr isotopic analyses from both I‐type suites plot on the same isochron, giving an age of 365 ± 4 Ma (Sr_l = 0.70388 ± 53). A total‐rock isochron for the peralkaline Narraburra Suite gives a less well‐defined age of 358 ± 9 Ma (Sr_l = 0.7013 ± 80). The Late Devonian Rb–Sr ages may be emplacement ages or a result of resetting during fluid‐rock interaction. Although granites of the Narraburra Complex have geochemical affinities with alkaline granites formed late in orogenic cycles, they post‐date arc magmatism by at least 75 million years and they formed in a within‐plate setting. Magmatism was related to localised reactivation of major faults (Gilmore Fault and the Parkes Thrust) in the region, and to partial melting involving both enriched mantle and Ordovician shoshonitic crustal components. Emplacement of the Narraburra Complex was contemporaneous with magmatism in the Central Victorian Magmatic Province and A‐type magmatism in eastern New South Wales. Collectively, all these magmatic events were related to extension post‐dating amalgamation of the western and central/eastern subprovinces of the Lachlan Fold Belt.     

The Precambrian of the Anti-Atlas (Morocco): A geochronological synthesis

Twenty total rock Rb/Sr isochrons ($\text{λ}{}^{87}\text{Rb}\text{= 1.47 · 10}{}^{\mathrm{?11}}\text{yr}{}^{\mathrm{?1}}$) and many individual data, mainly obtained by the K/Ar and Rb/Sr methods, on total rocks and minerals show that the orogenic story of the Precambrian of the Anti-Atlas, which was studied in its western and central parts, began with the Eburnean orogeny (1900-1650 m.y.). Up to now there is no good evidence of an older basement, even if the rather high initial ratio (0.707–0.709) of some Eburnean granites might suggest that such a basement exists at depth. There is also no geochronological evidence of plutonism until in early Panafrican time (680 m.y.) there started a period of intense magmatic and thermal activity which was ended by the emplacement of late post-tectonic granites at 530-520 m.y.The late Panafrican acid volcanism does not generally give suitable material for Rb/Sr dating, because of the great mobility of the radiogenic strontium in such a material even under very weak thermal conditions.     

原地-半原地深熔花岗岩特征:以华北克拉通北缘包头地区石榴花岗岩为例

在华北克拉通北缘大青山地区,广泛的深熔作用导致新太古代晚期石榴花岗岩发育.石榴花岗岩空间上与新太古代晚期大青山表壳岩(主要为石榴黑云母片麻岩)共生,渐变过渡.宏观上岩性具有不均一性,在包头哈德门沟一条实测地质剖面上可以观察到石榴混合闪长岩、石榴混合石英闪长岩和石榴混合花岗闪长岩等不同岩石类型.岩相学研究表明,石榴花岗岩...     

北秦岭蟒岭岩体的锆石U-Pb年龄、地球化学及其演化

蟒岭岩体位于北秦岭构造带北部,岩石类型主要为似斑状黑云母二长花岗岩、中粗粒黑云母二长花岗岩、中细粒二长花岗岩、含辉石黑云角闪闪长岩和黑云母钾长花岗岩。依据LA-ICPMS锆石U-Pb定年结果,结合前人测试的年龄,将蟒岭岩体的岩浆演化划分为晚侏罗世早期、晚侏罗世晚期—早白垩世早期和早白垩世中期3期。第一期为含辉石黑云角闪闪长岩,其LA-ICPMS锆石U-Pb年龄为（157±1） Ma,该期岩石SiO₂质量分数较低,富碱,属于准铝质,钾玄岩-高钾钙碱性系列;第二期二长花岗岩,侵位年龄为（148±1） Ma~（144±1） Ma,具有高硅、富碱的特征,属于准铝质-弱过铝质,钾玄岩-高钾钙碱性I-A过渡型花岗岩;第三期黑云母钾长花岗岩,侵位年龄为（124±2） Ma,具高硅、富碱、低镁、铝饱和指数偏高的特征,属过铝质,高钾钙碱性I-A过渡型花岗岩。组成蟒岭岩体的花岗岩从早到晚,SiO₂质量分数逐渐升高,而Al₂O₃、TiO₂、MgO、CaO、P₂O₅、TFe₂O₃质量分数逐渐降低;稀土元素总量具有由高到低的变化趋势,第一期和第二期岩石的稀土元素配分曲线为轻稀土元素相对富集的右倾型,而第三期的稀土元素配分曲线呈两边高中间低的不对称弧形,整体上负铕异常不明显或呈微弱正铕异常;微量元素上,这3期岩石均富集K、Rb、Ba、Sr等大离子亲石元素,而相对亏损P、Nb、Ta、Ti等高场强元素。与区域上同时代成矿花岗岩体对比,两者均具有高硅、富碱的特征,稀土元素球粒陨石标准化曲线呈轻稀土元素富集的右倾斜型,但蟒岭岩体中二长花岗岩没有明显的Eu异常,且Ba、P、Ti亏损及Ta、Nb富集没有含矿花岗岩明显。     

锆石Ge含量和年龄对云南临沧锗矿床物质来源的约束

云南临沧锗矿床产在以临沧花岗岩为基底的中新世断陷盆地中。已有研究表明,成矿元素Ge来自基底花岗岩,但临沧花岗岩是复式岩基,具有多期次的岩浆活动,而Ge来自哪期岩浆活动并不清楚。文章对采自晓街、临沧、勐库和勐海的7个花岗岩样品(纵贯临沧岩基)进行了LA-ICP-MS锆石原位Ge元素含量分析和U-Pb年代学研究。研究结果表明,岩基主体岩浆活动时代与前人研究成果一致,为(215.6±2.7)Ma~(236.9±3.7)Ma,同时也有少量继承锆石(303~2533 Ma);w(Ge)在主岩浆期的锆石中为0.23×10-6~4.21×10-6,平均0.53×10-6,在继承锆石中为0.34×10-6~3.43×10-6,平均1.18×10-6;而在本次研究中新发现的年龄为106.5 Ma和87.7 Ma的年轻锆石中w(Ge)高达102×10-6。因此,推测临沧锗矿床中Ge来源于晚期岩浆或热液作用。这个结果为成矿理论的深入研究提供了新依据。     

Age of granite emplacement in the Norseman region of Western Australia

Ion probe U‐Th‐Pb dating of zircons from the Late Archaean granites of the Norseman region of the southeastern Yilgarn shows the existence of two distinct magmatic episodes. Large regional tonalite and granodiorite plutons were emplaced between 2685 and 2690 Ma, whereas large regional granite, and small tonalite and leucogranite plutons that intrude the greenstones have ages of 2660–2665 Ma. A small body of granite that intrudes the western edge of the greenstones has an inferred emplacement of 2672 ± 7Ma, and contains inherited zircon that is ～2800 Ma. The monzogranite core from a second pluton in a similar structural position also contains ～2800 Ma zircon; this age is similar to published Sm‐Nd and Rb‐Sr whole rock ages for banded gneisses associated with other members of this suite of domal plutons and is interpreted as representing the age of a significant component within the source region for these distinctive rocks.

Available geochemical and isotopic data are interpreted as indicating derivation of both the older granodiorite and younger granite suites through anatexis of pre‐existing crust of broadly andesitic composition, whereas both the domal granites and the small, late tonalite plutons could have been derived by anatexis of heterogeneous material similar to that represented by the banded gneisses.

If regional metamorphism was related to the emplacement of large volumes of felsic magma within the upper crust, as suggested by Binns et al. (1976), then the Norseman area has probably undergone two periods of regional metamorphism of comparable intensity at approximately 2660 and 2685 Ma.     

云南马关老君山花岗岩的年代学、地球化学特征及地质意义

马关老君山花岗岩体位于滇东南-桂西锡钨多金属成矿带上。为了限定马关地区晚中生代岩浆事件的准确时间,本文对老君山花岗岩体进行了LA-ICP-MS锆石U-Pb定年和地球化学研究。对第一期花岗岩的定年结果为96±2Ma,表明老君山花岗岩应为晚白垩世,与华南西部晚白垩世成岩-成矿事件耦合。老君山花岗岩具有中等SiO2(69.6%～73.6%),高碱(K2O+Na2O=6.56%～8.66%),高钾(K2O>Na2O),强过铝质(A/CNK>1.1)的特征。较低的Sr(<50×10-6),较高的Rb(>270×10-6),低Na2O、CaO,以及P2O5、Y与Rb的演化趋势表明其应为分异的S型花岗岩。低CaO/Na2O值(<0.3),高Rb/Sr、Rb/Ba值的特征表明其源岩为富粘土泥质岩石。结合区域构造背景,老君山花岗岩应与滇东南-桂西晚白垩世成岩-成矿事件形成于同一动力学背景下,即华南西部晚白垩世岩石圈伸展作用。通过对区域地球化学资料和成矿地质背景的分析,围绕岩体(和隐伏岩体)的内外接触带及盖层内受伸展构造控制的断层系统是区域上的重点找矿方向。     

Relationship between tectonic structures and generation of anatectic melt,central Spain

This study relates the anatectic generation of in situ granites to deformation in the Spanish Central System. Regionally, the principal rocks of the anatectic complexes in central Iberia are migmatites, and interlayered with them are anatectic granites. The second phase of the Hercynian orogeny is characterized by subhorizontal structures (e.g. shears, folding) due to a contractional deformation, followed by extensional collapse of the orogen. Melting and the generation of in situ granites occurred in fertile rocks, but was concentrated in subhorizontal structures formed during the contractional deformation. Accumulation of volatile elements, such as boron, in shear structures may have triggered the anatexis, and enabled local migration of the melt fraction. This process, plus the existence of a fertile source, are determining factors in the generation of different melt-fraction granitoids.     

GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF GRANITES AND ITS STRUCTURAL GENETIC ENVIRONMENT IN THE NANDAN-HECHI METALLOGENETIC BELT, NORTHWEST GUANGXI

The Nandan-Hechi metallogenetic belt is the most important tin-polymetallic producing district in China, and is the location of the Dachang super-large tin deposit. Based on the detailed field investigation and isotopic data, the stages of magmatic activity in the Nandan-Hechi metallogenetic belt have been lined out in this paper. Through the study about the geochemical characteristics of different granites, and by using ω(Al2O3)-ω(SiO2), ω(TFeO)/[ω(TFeO) ω(MgO)]-ω(SiO2), AFM, ACF and Rb-Yb Ta, Rb-Y Nb,Ta-Yb, Nb-Y discrimination diagrams in combination with regional geological setting analysis, the authors carried out analyses about the structural environment for the formation of the granites, and discussed the structural environment and dynamic setting for the large scale mineralization in this area. Our study indicates that the majority of the granites in Nandan-Hechi metallogenetic belt belong to the POG type,while the later stage alaskite belongs to the RRG CEUG type. The granites were formed at the stage of structural transformation from postorogenic phase to intraplate setting. But the major structural environment is characterized by steady regional extension. The formation age for the granites coincides with the time for this transformation, and this translation environment is favored for large-scale metallogenesis.     

赣南不同类型花岗岩体的锆石形态群特征及其意义

根据赣南不同时期的各类型花岗岩体的锆石形态群的研究,确定了赣南在前燕山期形成的隘地体、安西－龙州岩体都是造山花岗岩,寨背岩体,陂头岩体,柯树北岩体和安西－龙州岩体均可能是地幔物质混染地壳物质后形成的。     

Granite-types in the Hohe Tauern (Eastern Alps,Austria) — Some aspects on their correlation to Variscan plate tectonic processes

Abstract

The Zentralgneise in the Hohe Tauern (Penninic Zone, Eastern Alps, Austria) can be interpreted essentially as metamorphosed Late Paleozoic orogenic plutonites with original compositions mainly of granites, granodiorites and tonalites, rarely also of diorites, quartzdiorites, quartzmonzodiorites, quartzmonzonites and quartzsyenites. Most of the granitoids show attributes of “Cordilleran I-type granites” respectively “volcanic arc granites”.

Due to their similarity to subduction derived granitoids from present day active continental margins in the Circum-Pacific area, it is assumed, that the I-type granitoids of the Hohe Tauern reflect the influence of a Variscan destructive plate boundary.

Among the Zentralgneise also minor amounts of granites with features towards the S-type occur, which are more likely related to collision than to subduction.

Seen as a whole, the Late Paleozoic plutonism played probably part in a compressional continental margin and originated during a Variscan subduction-collision scenario, that occurred along the southern flank of Central European Hercynian fold belt.     

四川九龙新火山花岗岩体单颗粒锆石LA-ICP-MS U-Pb定年及其地质意义

本文对四川九龙新火山花岗岩岩体中的锆石进行了详细的LA-ICP-MS U-Pb同位素年龄测定。该岩体中的锆石发育较好的环带结构,Th/U值较高(大于0.13),具有岩浆成因锆石的特征。研究结果表明,新火山岩体中锆石的206Pb/238U加权平均年龄为181.2±1.4Ma(MSWD=3.3),代表了新火山花岗岩的结晶年龄,为早侏罗世,反映了松潘-甘孜造山带燕山期岩浆活动的一个重要阶段,为进一步理解松潘-甘孜燕山期花岗质岩浆活动及其动力学背景等提供了有力的证据。     

The Late Paleozoic fold-thrust structure of the Tunka bald mountains, East Sayan (southern framing of the Siberian Platform)

According to the new geological, geochronological, and structural data, the Tunka bald mountains (East Sayan) have a nappe structure, which formed in the Late Carboniferous–Early Permian. The deformations have been dated by the ⁴⁰Ar–³⁹Ar method on the basis of syntectonic micas and amphiboles, whose structural and spatial positions have been determined in oriented thin sections. The geometrical analysis of macro- and microstructures has revealed three development stages of the structures, which followed one another in progressive deformation. The first (thrust-fault) stage (316–310 Ma) comprised a group of N-verging thrust sheets. In the second (fold deformation) stage (305–303 Ma), they were folded. The third (strike-slip fault) stage (286 Ma) comprised high-angle shears, along which V-shaped blocks were squeezed westward from the most compressed areas. All the structures developed under near-N–S-trending compression. The thrusting in the Tunka bald mountains was coeval with the major shear structures in the eastern Central Asian Fold Belt (Main Sayan Fault, Kurai, Northeastern, and Irtysh crumpled zones, etc.). Also, it was simultaneous with the formation of continental-margin calc-alkalic and shoshonite series (305–278 Ma) as well as that of the alkali and alkali-feldspar syenites and granites (281–278 Ma) of the Tarim mantle plume in the Angara–Vitim pluton, located near and east of the studied region. Thus, the simultaneous development of the Late Paleozoic structures, active-margin structures, and plume magmatism in southern Siberia might have resulted from the global geodynamic events caused by the interaction between the tectonic plates which formed the Central Asian Fold Belt.     

大别—苏鲁超高压地体中面理化含榴花岗岩的成因研究

大别—苏鲁超高压地体中的面理化花岗岩因为常含石榴石而被简称为含榴花岗岩, 其岩石类型主要为二长花岗岩、花岗岩和微斜长石花岗岩, 岩石具有花岗结构和片麻状构造.详细的野外地质研究表明, 超高压片麻岩作为超高压榴辉岩的围岩与含榴花岗岩呈渐变过渡关系, 或在含榴花岗岩中呈与面理平行的残留条带, 体现超高压片麻岩通过构造置换和部分熔融向含榴花岗岩转化.含榴花岗岩在常量元素的总体组成上, w(SiO₂)为71.73%~79.15%;A/CNK为0.83~1.09, 平均0.98, 为准铝质; w(K₂O+Na₂O)为6.15%~9.00%, w(K₂O)/w(Na₂O)为0.16~1.54(绝大多数集中在0.9~1.1), 具有相对弱富钠-弱富钾特征.从标准矿物组成上看, 大别含榴花岗岩主要相当于奥长花岗岩; 山东含榴花岗岩主要相当于花岗岩; 东海含榴花岗岩主要相当于钾质花岗岩.在微量元素特征上, 含榴花岗岩的∑REE、∑LREE明显富集, δEu具有明显的负异常, 在原始地幔标准化蛛网图上, 相对亏损Nb、Ta、P、Zr、Ti等高场强元素及大离子亲石元素Sr, 富集Ba、La、Nd、Y、K等大离子亲石元素, 结合其贫w(Al)(平均11.6%)富w(Ga)(> 17×10-6)、(Fe/Mg)_M(1.087~20.330)等特征, 表明其地球化学特征相当于非造山的A型花岗岩.结合前人超高压变质作用和构造演化等研究成果, 可以推断含榴花岗岩是超高压地体折返到中下地壳, 在底侵、构造体制转换等因素作用下, 由高压片麻岩的部分熔融形成的.含榴花岗岩在大别—苏鲁不同区域上的规律变化, 表明东海含榴花岗岩的出露相对于大别更低位.      

南岭成矿带中—晚侏罗世成钨、成锡、成铅锌（铜）花岗岩的差异性研究

【研究目的】南岭地区以发育强烈的中—晚侏罗世岩浆作用与相关金属成矿作用为主要特色,这些金属矿床尤以钨、锡、铅锌铜最具代表性。对这3类成矿花岗岩开展系统的对比研究,深入分析成矿差异原因,对指导区域找矿具有重要意义。【研究方法】本文通过搜集已发表的主量元素、微量元素、年代学、Sr-Nd-Hf同位素和矿物化学数据,并结合项目组长期野外地质调查进展,对3类成矿花岗岩进行了差异性研究。【研究结果】通过对比发现成钨、成锡、成铅锌铜3类花岗岩在时空分布格局、野外地质特征、矿物组成、源区性质、包体成因类型、岩浆分异程度、形成温度和氧逸度等方面具有明显的差异。【结论】笔者认为花岗岩的岩石地球化学成分、源区物质组成、岩浆分异程度以及岩浆演化过程中物化条件(如氧逸度)的综合差异是导致南岭花岗岩形成3类不同金属矿床的主要原因。在此基础上,进一步完善了南岭成矿带成钨、成锡、成铅锌铜花岗岩的综合判别标志,指导区域找矿勘查。     

Geology, geochemistry, and U–Pb geochronology of the Archean (2.74 Ga) Serra do Rabo granite stocks, Carajás Metallogenetic Province, northern Brazil

The Carajás region, located in the southeastern part of the Amazon Craton, has been considered one of the most important mineral provinces in the world. The Serra do Rabo Granite (SRG) crops out near the eastern termination of the Carajás fault as two granite stocks, elongated approximately in an E–W direction, concordant with the regional structures. Leucomicrocline granite, hornblende–microcline granite, biotite–hornblende–microcline granite, hornblende syenogranite, and subordinate aplite are identified. The granites are grayish pink and coarse to medium grained and have mainly hypidiomorphic granular texture. Granophyric textures are common. The accessory minerals are ilmenite, apatite, zircon, allanite, and rare pyroxene.The SRG rocks are either massive or foliated, with a slightly anastomosed continuous S₁ foliation (E–W/subvertical) outlined by the preferred orientation of quartz, feldspars, and mafic minerals. Locally, decimeter- to meter-wide mylonite/ultramylonite bands (S_1m) occur along the E–W foliation. The S₁ foliation was developed under higher temperatures than those of the S_1m mylonite foliation. The SRG structural evolution was controlled by progressive deformation under decreasing temperature, indicative of syntectonic emplacement. The SRG also has relatively high SiO₂, K₂O, and Na₂O contents; high FeO*/(FeO*+MgO) ratios; high Zr, Ba, Nb, and Ga; and very high rare-earth element contents. The chemical signature is moderately alkaline and metaluminous, comparable to that of the A-type, A2, and ALK-3 granites. The origin of the SRG magmas may be related to the partial melting of crustal sources, such as previously metamorphosed calc-alkaline granites.The SRG crosscuts supracrustal rocks, promoting low-pressure/high-temperature metamorphism. The interaction between regional compressive stresses and the ballooning effect of the granite stocks promoted slight aureole flattening and rheological changes in the supracrustal rocks. The U–Pb zircon age of 2743±1.6 Ma is interpreted as the age of zircon crystallization, granite stock emplacement, and regional horizontal shortening. Other 2.7 Ga syntectonic alkaline granites (e.g. Estrela, Plaquê, Planalto) have been reported in the region.