Sediment Provenance In The Palaeoproterozoic Rio Itapicuru Greenstone Belt, Brazil, Indicates Deposition On Arc Settings With A Hidden 2.17-2.25ga Substrate

A study of sediment provenance and tectonic setting was carried out for the first time on metasedimentary rocks of the Rio Itapicuru greenstone belt, Serrinha Block, São Francisco craton, Brazil, using a combination of LA-ICP-MS zircon U-Pb geochronology, whole-rock geochemistry and Sm-Nd isotope data. The protoliths of the studied phyllites, micaschists and biotite gneisses were classified mostly as mudstones and impure sandstones, i.e. shales and greywackes. The chemical index of alteration (CIA) ranges from 39 to 70 indicating moderate chemical weathering in source areas. Intermediate and felsic rocks (granite, granodiorite, rhyolite and andesite) are the likely main source rocks, and less often mafic rocks (basalt and gabbro). The depleted-mantle Nd model ages (T DM), most in the range 2.0-2.2Ga, and the positive e{open} Nd values for the proposed deposition time (ca. 2115Ma) suggest source rocks mainly in the greenstone belt. The U-Pb data on detrital zircon grains of four samples yielded 207Pb/ 206Pb age mostly in the timespan 2125-2237Ma, with age populations clustering at 2164 ± 4Ma and 2209 ± 4Ma, and minor outliers at ca. 2112Ma, 2270Ma, and 2415Ma. The results indicated that the metasedimentary rocks of the Rio Itapicuru greenstone belt have source areas mainly in Palaeoproteroic terranes such as the Rio Itapicuru and Rio Capim greenstone belts. The zircon populations between 2.17Ga and 2.24Ga are not found in the Serrinha block, thus requiring sources that are not known in the region. Diagrams of tectonic setting suggest that the sediments may have been deposited on continental island arc. 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