In ca. 1880 Ma an extensive magmatic event generated A-type granites with rapakivi affinity in the Amazonian Craton, especially in the Carajás Province. In this Province these granites are grouped into three main suites according to mineralogy, geochemistry, and state of oxidation of their magmas – Jamon, Velho Guilherme, and Serra dos Carajás – and include also the Gogó da Onça, Seringa, São João, Gradaús, and Rio Branco plutons. The Gogó da Onça Granite (GOG) comprise a stock composed by biotite-amphibole granodiorite, biotiteamphibole monzogranite and amphibole-biotite syenogranite. The GGO crosscut discordantly the Archean country rocks and are not foliated. All Gogó da Onça Granite varieties are metaluminous, ferroan A2-subtype granites with reduced character. The major and trace element behavior suggests that its different facies are related by fractional crystallization. Zircon and titanite U–Pb SHRIMP ages show that the pluton crystallized at ~1880-1870 Ma. This is more akin to the Serra dos Carajás Suite and to the Seringa and São João granites of Carajás and to the Mesoproterozoic Sherman granite of USA and the Paleoproterozoic Suomenniemi Batholith of Finland. New U-Pb SHRIMP data for the Serra dos Carajás, Velho Guilherme and Jamon Suite and for Seringa and São João Granite show that these plutons crystallized between 1880 Ma to 1857 Ma. Some granites of the Velho Guilherme and Jamon suites and of the Seringa Granite presented 1920 to 1900 m. y. old zircon and titanite crystals interpreted here as antecrysts from an earlier pulse of magma that were incorporated in the main later pulse of 1880 Ma. We also obtained ages of 1865 Ma to 1857 Ma in the leucogranite facies of the Redenção and Bannach plutons, which indicate that the leucogranites of these plutons are younger than their ~1880 Ma old granites and were generated by independent magma pulses that are not cogenetic with the less evolved facies of the respective plutons. Besides it, an age of 1732 ± 6 Ma obtained in the leucogranite facies of the Antônio Vicente pluton of the Velho Guilherme Suite that could represent a magmatic event in the Xingu Region not yet reported or, eventually, could correspond to an isolate hydrothermal event that allowed the growth of zircons. This ranites have been also analysed by Lu–Hf and Oxygen isotopes and few granites also by Nd isotopes. Zircons from all the granites have remarkably restricted initial 176Hf/177Hf (0.281156 and 0.281384) and strongly negative εHf(t) values ranging from –9 to -18, and δ18O fairly homogeneous varying from 5.50‰ to 7.00‰. Small differences were observed internally in the plutons or between them. The ƐHf(t) values of the analysed plutons are strongly negative and similar to Nd isotopic data. The Serra dos Carajás Suite has ƐHf(t) values of -14 to -15.5, the Jamon Suite of -9.5 to -15 and values of -12 to -15 for the Velho Guilherme Suite, while São João, Seringa and Gogó da Onça granites have stronger negative values (ƐHf(t)= -12 to -18). Crustal model ages indicate a Paleoarchean source (3.3 Ga to 3.6 Ga) with a minor contribution from Mesoarchean (3.0 Ga to 3.2 Ga) melts for these granites. This model ages are older than the exposed Archean country rocks of the Orosirian granites of the Carajás Province and more investigation is needed to verify the real existence of that older Archean crust. The studied samples have Hf– O isotopic compositions that overlap within error, and evidence of contamination (crustal assimilation or mixing) of a mantle-derived magma cannot be seen. These plutons crystallized from magmas generated by melting of pre-existing igneous rocks with possibly in the Velho Guilherme Suite a minor contribution from a supracrustal (metasedimentary) component. The Nd, Hf, and O isotope compositions of the Paleoproterozoic granites of Carajás Province clearly attest to an igneous ancient crustal source in the origin of their magmas. The differences observed can result for contrasts in the crustal domains of the Carajás Province that were the source of the granites or of local contamination processes.
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