CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS OF NEOGENE FORMATIONS OF THE GREAT HUNGARIAN PLAIN BASED ON INTERPRETATION OF SEISMIC AND PALEOMAGNETIC DATA

K-Ar and ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar geochronological studies were performed on selected minerals from the Mina III gold deposit, Crixás greenstone belt, state of Goiás, central Brazil. They include amphibole and biotite from amphibole schists; biotite from quartz-chlorite-carbonate-muscovite schists; chloritoid, muscovite, and paragonite from muscovite schists; and biotite from biotite-marbles. Analyses yielded ages between 750 and 500 Ma, indicating that the Brasiliano orogenic event affected rocks of the Archean greenstone belt. It is proposed that the gold mineralization, closely related to a post-metamorphic peak hydrothermal alteration and spatially associated with muscovite schists, is 505 ± 10 Ma, whereas older ages may indicate an excess of argon.