Morphology and Chemistry of Zircons from the Paleoproterozoic Cu (±Mo±Au) Hosting Granitoids of Malanjkhand Mine Area, Central India
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Department of Geology, Centre of Advanced Study, Kumaun University, Nainital 263 002
Deepa Arya -
Department of Geology, Centre of Advanced Study, Kumaun University, Nainital 263 002
Saurabh Gupta
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Department of Geology, Centre of Advanced Study, Kumaun University, Nainital 263 002
Santosh Kumar
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Institute of Earth Science, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravska Cesta 9, 841 05 Bratislava, Slovakia
Igor Broska
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Institute of Earth Science, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravska Cesta 9, 841 05 Bratislava, Slovakia
Tomáš Vaculovic
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s12594-019-1171-3Abstract
Morphology and chemistry of zircons from Paleoproterozoic granitoids (~2470 Ma) of Malanjkhand mine area, central India have been used to understand nature of parental magma and its evolutionary history. External morphology of nonmetamict zircons belongs to S3, S1-2, G1, P2, S24 and S25 subtypes of Pupin's typological scheme, which crystallized in a calc-alkaline, metaluminous hybridizing magma. The Zr/Hf ratios of zircons point to a low degree of differentiation of parental magma. Most zircons bear low sum of rare earth elements (∑REEZr) of 938°C suggesting its crystallisation in a relatively high-T intermediate magma composition. However, zircons with Th/U<1 bear Ti content below the detection limit (33 ppm) due to their crystallization in a relatively more evolved aluminous melt fraction of parental calc-alkaline magma. All zircons exhibit positive Ce- and negative Eu-anomalies, which probably indicate mildly oxidising magma condition of zircon crystallization synchronous with plagioclase.
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