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- Late-stage gold (Electrum) in the Lousal Mine, Iberian Pyrite Belt, PortugalPublication . de Oliveira, Daniel Pipa Soares; Rosa, Carlos J. P.; Guimarães, Fernanda; Matos, João Xavier; Rosa, Diogo; Pereira, Zélia; Frias, Vasco C. S.
- El Complejo Calco-Alcalino de la Serra da Neve (SW Angola): trabajos en curso [Resumo]Publication . Prazeres, Cátia; Batista, Maria Joao; Lopes, R.; Barros, B.; Ferreira da Costa, P.; Labaredas, José; Guimarães, Fernanda; Rodrigues, José Feliciano; Cordeiro, DomingosRESUMEN: El Complejo Calco-Alcalino de la Serra da Neve (CACSN) constituye un conjunto de estructuras alcalinas volcánicas, subvolcánicas y plutónicas emplazadas en una tendencia general ONO-ESE a NOSE (Pereira y Moreira, 1978; Lopes y Caessa, 2021). Fue remapeado a escala 1:100.000 para la cartografía geológica del proyecto PLANAGEO y posteriormente fue una de las áreas seleccionadas para realizar exploración mineral para ETR-Nb-Ta a escala regional. Las campañas de campo incluyeron levantamientos con FRX portátil y SRG portátil, cuyos resultados mostraron patrones preliminares de distribución de ETR en las litologías del CACSN (Prazeres et al., en revisión). Los muestreos realizados durante el trabajo de campo permitieron estudios petrográficos y análisis con microsonda electrónica, que son la base para comprender la mineralogía de los ETR. Hasta ahora se ha demostrado que algunos carbonatos (bastnasita), fosfatos (apatito y xenotima), minerales de Zr (eudialita) y esfena incorporan cantidades apreciables de ETR, especialmente ETR ligeros.
- Exhumation of an anatectic complex by channel flow and extrusion tectonics: structural and metamorphic evidence from the Porto–Viseu Metamorphic Belt, Central-Iberian ZonePublication . M. Bento dos Santos, Telmo; Rodrigues, José Feliciano; Castro, Paulo; Cotrim, Beatriz; Pereira, Inês; Ferreira, Joana; Pinto De Meireles, Carlos Augusto; Ferreira, Narciso; Ferreira, Priscila; Ribeiro, António; Guimarães, FernandaAbstract: Structural and metamorphic analyses of the Porto–Viseu Metamorphic Belt (PVMB), an anatectic complex located in the Central-Iberian Zone (CIZ), Iberian Variscan Massif, constrain the kinematic features of the polyphase Variscan deformation, as well as the boundary conditions associated with the exhumation and emplacement of the belt onto the CIZ’s lower-grade metasediments. A sharp metamorphic contrast is evident between the lowest grade rocks of the anatectic complex—garnet-staurolite mylonitic schists with a minimum metamorphic peak at P = 5.7 kbar and T = 635 °C—and the host chlorite-biotite metasediments of the CIZ. Additional P–T estimates for metatexites in the PVMB provided P = 7.6–7.9 kbar and T = 770–810 °C, confirming high-grade metamorphic peak conditions. The temperature jump between the anatectic complex and the low-grade host rocks exceeds 400 °C if the anatectic core of the belt (metatexites, diatexites, and S-type granites) is considered, implying a vertical difference of 10–17 km. The PVMB is limited in the NE by a D2 shear zone displaying normal kinematics, which has been explained so far by extensional tectonics. However, the SW boundary is limited by a D2 shear zone showing reverse kinematics. This pair of coeval and antithetical ductile shear zones bordering the PVMB, associated with the increase of the metamorphic grade towards the axial domain of the belt, is consistent with anatectic channel flow, followed by extrusion tectonics of the PVMB within an overall D2 compressive setting.
- Les series volcaniques et volcanoclastiques Précambriènnes et Cambro-Ordoviciènnes des antiformes de Jbel Belkheit et de Jbel Bou Acila (Sud-Est du Massif Hercynien Central Marocain)Publication . Sabri, K.; Dahire, M.; Ouali, H.; Smaili, H.; Ntarmouchant, A.; Driouch, Y.; Ribeiro, Maria Luísa; Guimarães, Fernanda; Bento dos Santos, Telmo; Solá, A. Rita
- Tourmaline occurrences within the Penamacor-Monsanto granitic pluton and host-rocks (Central Portugal) : genetic implications of crystal-chemical and isotopic featuresPublication . Costa, Isabel Ribeiro da; Mourão, C.; Récio, C.; Guimarães, Fernanda; Antunes, I. M.; Ramos, João Farinha; Barriga, Fernando; Palmer, Martin R.; Milton, J. A.Tourmalinization associated with peraluminous granitic intrusions in metapelitic host-rocks has been widely recorded in the Iberian Peninsula, given the importance of tourmaline as a tracer of granite magma evolution and potential indicator of Sn-W mineralizations. In the Penamacor-Monsanto granite pluton (Central Eastern Portugal, Central Iberian Zone), tourmaline occurs: (1) as accessory phase in two-mica granitic rocks, muscovite-granites and aplites, (2) in quartz (±mica)-tourmaline rocks (tourmalinites) in several exocontact locations, and (3) as a rare detrital phase in contact zone hornfels and metapelitic host-rocks. Electron microprobe and stable isotope (d18O, dD, d11B) data provide clear distinctions between tourmaline populations from these different settings: (a) schorl–oxyschorl tourmalines from granitic rocks have variable foititic component (X? = 17–57 %) and Mg/(Mg + Fe) ratios (0.19–0.50 in two-mica granitic rocks, and 0.05–0.19 in the more differentiated muscovite-granite and aplites); granitic tourmalines have constant d18O values (12.1 ± 0.1 ‰), with wider-ranging dD (-78.2 ± 4.7 ‰) and d11B (-10.7 to -9.0 ‰) values; (b) vein/breccia oxyschorl [Mg/(Mg + Fe) = 0.31–0.44] results from late, B- and Fe-enriched magma-derived fluids and is characterized by d18O = 12.4 ‰, dD = -29.5 ‰, and d11B = -9.3 ‰, while replacement tourmalines have more dravitic compositions [Mg/(Mg + Fe) = 0.26–0.64], close to that of detrital tourmaline in the surrounding metapelitic rocks, and yield relatively constant d18O values (13.1–13.3 ‰), though wider-ranging dD (-58.5 to -36.5 ‰) and d11B (-10.2 to -8.8 ‰) values; and (c) detrital tourmaline in contact rocks and regional host metasediments is mainly dravite [Mg/(Mg + Fe) = 0.35–0.78] and oxydravite [Mg/(Mg + Fe) = 0.51–0.58], respectively. Boron contents of the granitic rocks are low (<650 ppm) compared to the minimum B contents normally required for tourmaline saturation in granitic melts, implying loss of B and other volatiles to the surrounding host-rocks during the late-magmatic stages. This process was responsible for tourmalinization at the exocontact of the Penamacor-Monsanto pluton, either as direct tourmaline precipitation in cavities and fractures crossing the pluton margin (vein/breccia tourmalinites), or as replacement of mafic minerals (chlorite or biotite) in the host-rocks (replacement tourmalinites) along the exocontact of the granite. Thermometry based on 18O equilibrium fractionation between tourmaline and fluid indicates that a late, B-enriched magmatic aqueous fluid (av. d18O ~12.1 ‰, at ~600 °C) precipitated the vein/breccia tourmaline (d18O ~12.4 ‰) at ~500–550 °C, and later interacted with the cooler surrounding host-rocks to produce tourmaline at lower temperatures (400–450 °C), and an average d18O ~13.2 ‰, closer to the values for the host-rock. Although B-metasomatism associated with some granitic plutons in the Iberian Peninsula seems to be relatively confined in space, extending integrated studies such as this to a larger number of granitic plutons may afford us a better understanding of Variscan magmatism and related mineralizations.
- Electron microprobe analysis of cryolitePublication . Guimarães, Fernanda; Silva, Paulo Bravo; Ferreira, Jorge Amaral; Piedade, A. P.; Vieira, M. T. F.A sample of cryolite was studied with a JEOL JXA 8500-F electron microprobe under several operating conditions. A TAP crystal was used to analyse Na and Al and a LDE1 crystal to analyse F. As F and Na are both highly "volatile" elements, special care must be taken during analysis. The measurement order of Na, F and Al is not irrelevant and optimum conditions may also result in different combinations of accelerating voltage, beam current, beam size or counting times. Relevant X-ray signals were recorded in order to investigate the behaviour of the Na Ka and F Ka counts with elapsed time. The incident beam current was also recorded at the same time. In a clear contrast to what has normally been reported in the EPMA analysis of aluminosilicates and silicate glasses, we found that the Na X-ray counts increase with time. This increment of X-rays intensities for sodium in cryolite depends on the operating conditions and is accompanied by a strong migration of fluorine from the beam excitation volume, leading to a decrease in F X-ray counting rates. It was also observed that higher incident beam currents induce higher radiation damage in the mineral. The current instability is consistent with possible electron induced dissociation in the cryolite structure. An analytical protocol was achieved for 6 kV and 15kV accelerating voltage for the correct EPMA analysis of cryolite.
- Petrographic and geochemical features of Mouriscas Orthogneisses: contribution to Ossa-Morena Zone geodynamical modelPublication . Henriques, S.B.A.; Ribeiro, Maria Luísa; Moreira, Maria Eugénia Dias; Guimarães, FernandaABSTRACT: A preliminary study presents a set of variscan granitoids, which intruded the Ossa Morena Zone (OMZ), at the Arraiolos-Pavia region. Field, petrographic and geochemical characterization defines the bases for a general classification of the Ossa Morena Zone granitoids, similar to that of Central Iberian Zone (CIZ). The obtained data pointed out the occurrence of enormous volumes of basic and intermediated compositions. Granitoids containing biotite, amphibole and calcic plagioclase, granitoids are frequent, showing particular features of the OMZ, relatively to the CIZ. Geochemical data indicate sub-alkaline sequences and different magmatic sources, from mantle and crust. These sequences have reached different stages of magmatic evolution. The most evolved melts are enriched in alkalis gave compositions for the alkaline field in the TAS diagram (alkali feldspar granite). These evolved rocks have the Al2O3 values of granites.
- Mineral chemistry of ultramafic nodeules from lavas of the Fogo Island 2014 Eruption (Cape Verde) : preliminary resultsPublication . Caldeira, Rita; Guimarães, Fernanda; Mata, João; Silva, P.; Moreira, M.; Ferreira, Pedro Tavares
- Elemental characterization of the airborne pollen surface using Electron Probe Microanalysis (EPMA)Publication . Duque, Laura; Guimarães, Fernanda; Ribeiro, Helena; Sousa, Raquel; Abreu, IldaRecent worldwide increase in pollinoses has been attributed to the synergy between pollen and pollutants. We used EPMA for the elemental characterization of the airborne pollen surface in order to find out what occurs to the wall of pollen grains when they are together with other atmospheric pollutants. Analyses were performed both to airborne pollen and to pollen that was collected from Acer spp., Platanus spp. and Pinus spp. trees. Airborne samples were assembled using a Hirst-type volumetric spore sampler set in the coastal city of Porto, Portugal. Airborne pollen samples showed major elemental differences when compared to the control pollen sample of the same species, namely in the amounts of Cl, Na and Mg, which very significantly increased on airborne samples, revealing an important influence of the ocean. Mineral dust also contributed to modify the pollen surface, by increasing Si contents on Acer spp. and Platanus spp. airborne pollen. Our results revealed consistent positive effects of the relative humidity and the precipitation in the increase of Cl, Na and Mg relative amounts on the pollen surface. This study shows that pollen grains have the ability to adsorb and/or absorb other materials, which may contribute to enhance pollen's harmful effects on people's health.
- New data on nodular monazite from Monfortinho (Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal)Publication . Salgueiro, Rute; Inverno, Carlos; De Oliveira, Daniel Pipa Soares; Guimarães, Fernanda