Abstract The Rio Jacaré Batholith (RJB; 617 ± 4 Ma) is inserted in the Poço Redondo Domain, Sergipano Orogenic System. This batholith is formed by monzodiorite, quartz monzodiorite, monzonite, and quartz monzonite, with abundant microgranular enclaves (MEs). The MEs vary from black to light gray and exhibit globular to slightly elongated shapes with clear-cut, crenulated, and cuspate, or, more rarely, diffuse contacts. They correspond to diorites, monzodiorites, quartz monzodiorites, and monzonites, and textural features indicate mixing of magmas, such as compositional zoning in plagioclase, inclusion zones in plagioclase phenocrysts, poikilitic alkali feldspar, acicular apatite, and ocellar quartz. Calculations of linear correlations of major elements showed that the smallest fraction of mafic magma involved in the mixing was 0.43. MEs represent the breakdown and cooling of a mafic magma that was injected into a cooler felsic magmatic chamber. Emplacement of this mafic magma occurred at different stages of crystallization of the RJB magmatic chamber. The MEs are magnesian and metaluminous, with affinity to the shoshonitic series. Ratios for Ba/Nb (> 23), Ba/La (> 15), and Nb/La (0.22–0.69) are characteristic of magmas generated from partial melting of an enriched lithospheric mantle source. Batch melting modeling suggests that source melting rates of less than 3% are necessary to generate magmas similar to those of the RJB MEs.

Abstract The Glória Norte Stock (GNS) is made up of predominantly porphyritic biotite- amphibole-bearing quartz monzonite, enclosing a large number of microgranular mafic enclaves (MME). The GNS MME are fine-grained rocks with rounded and ellipsoid shapes that show sharp and gradational contacts with the host rocks, suggesting they coexisted with the host monzonite as magmas. The studied amphibole crystals of the two rock types are calcic and correspond to pargasite, edenite, and magnesium-hornblende. Their compositions are influenced by substitutions involving Al3+, Na+, Fe2+, Si4+ and Mg2+ ions, reflecting the decrease in temperature and the increase in oxygen fugacity. They present low Ti and Al contents, and varied Si content (6.2-7.7 apuf). The mg# values range from 0.48-0.84. Pressures for the crystallization of the MME amphiboles vary between 2.6 and 7.8 kbar and the temperatures of solidus and liquidus were estimated between 600-659 and 887-908ºC, respectively. The early MME amphibole crystals with lower Si and Mg content were formed under high pressure (7.8 kbar) and temperature (908 °C). The presence of amphiboles with 862ºC and 5 kbar in MME and GNS reflects that the interaction between these magmas occurred at 18 km of depth.

Abstract In the southern portion of the Borborema Province, in the Sergipano Orogenic System, three basement inliers have been described: the Domes of Itabaiana and Simão Dias, in Sergipe; and the Girau do Ponciano Dome, in Alagoas. The Itabaiana and Simão Dias Domes occur in the central part of the Vaza Barris Domain, being composed of gneisses and migmatites. The Itabaiana rocks are calc-alkaline with trondhjemitic affinities. The Girau do Ponciano Dome, outcropping in the Macururé Domain, consists mainly of tonalitic, dioritic, monzonitic, granodioritic and high-grade granitic orthogneisses. SHRIMP U-Pb zircon date of a melanosome sample from a trondhjemitic migmatitic gneiss in the central part of Itabaiana Dome provided an age of 2831 ± 6 Ma, indicating that the migmatitic gneisses of this dome are correlated to the Mesoarchean terranes of the São Francisco Craton (Serrinha Block). These rocks represent the oldest geological record in the Sergipe State.

Abstract The Capela, Dores, Aquidabã, Camará, Campo Grande, and Pedra Branca stocks constitute the Macururé Mafic Suite of the Sergipano Orogenic System, Southern Borborema Province. These bodies have elongated and tabular forms, which are concordant with the metasedimentary host rocks foliation. Most primitive terms are hornblendites, gabbros, and diorites, with minor monzonites, granodiorites, and granites. U-Pb SHRIMP zircon ages for Capela (631 ± 3 Ma), Aquidabã (636 ± 4 Ma) and Campo Grande (629 ± 9 Ma) stocks indicate the coeval emplacement of the intrusions. Geochemical data show that these rocks are metaluminous to slightly peraluminous, magnesian and have high-K calc-alkaline to shoshonitic affinities. Rare earth elements (REE) patterns are fractionated and multielement diagrams display depletions at Nb, Ta, and Ti, indicating subduction-related magmatism. Trace elements data suggest that the gabbros and diorites were generated by partial melting of an enriched subcontinental lithospheric mantle in the spinel stability field, which has probably been metasomatized by the interaction with sediments during previous subduction events. Field and petrographic evidence, associated with geochemical and geochronological data support that the magmas of the Macururé Mafic Suite were emplaced in early- to syn-collisional stage during the build-up of a continental arc in the Sergipano Orogenic System, at ca. 630 Ma.

ABSTRACT: Monazite is a common accessory mineral in the Floresta Azul Alkaline Complex, occurring in three different rock types, which form this batholith: nepheline syenite, granite and fenite. Two compositional types of monazite can be found: monazite-(Ce) and monazite-(La), the latter being found only in syenites. Monazite occurs in close association with apatite as anhedral crystals ranging in size from 0.1-100 µm, and textures indicate different genetic processes. In nepheline syenite, monazite is closely related to ancylite and apatite, as a late crystallizing phase. Monazite occurs in granites as pore fillings in apatite and was formed by the remobilization of rare earth elements (REE) from apatite by late CO 2 - rich fluids. In fenite, monazite appears as acicular crystals, parallel to apatite’s crystallographic c-axis formed by exsolution from apatite by metamorphism. The data show that the monazite genesis was closely related to the activity of fluids associated either with the final stages of crystallization of nepheline syenite and granite or with fenitization of country rock.

RESUMO: O Stock Glória Sul (SGS) (41 km2) é arredondado e intrusivo na parte central do Domínio Macururé, no Sistema Orogênico Sergipano (SOS). Internamente o Stock é formado por vários tipos de sienogranitos leucocráticos (biotita sienogranito, sienogranito com muscovita e biotita e muscovita sienogranito). Os biotita sienogranitos apresentam abundância de enclaves máficos microgranulares que correspondem a sienitos e são ocasionais nos sienogranitos com muscovita e biotita. Os sienogranitos são metaluminosos, com termos mais evoluídos peraluminosos, posicionando-se no campo dos granitos do tipo I e exibem assinatura geoquímica cálcio-alcalino de alto K2O. Os enclaves sieníticos são metaluminosos e exibem assinatura shoshonítica. Os dados geoquímicos sugerem que as diferentes rochas presentes no SGS podem ser explicadas como produto da mistura entre um magma fortemente diferenciado e peraluminoso (≈ 73% SiO2) com outro máfico shoshonítico (≈ 56% SiO2), representado pelos enclaves. Os valores dos elementos traços são mais elevados nos enclaves do que nos granitos, tais como Ba (1.179 - 319 ppm), Rb (351 - 55,3 ppm), Y (16,7 - 1,6 ppm). Os padrões de elementos terras raras mostram variação de ∑38,58 - 299,21 ppm, LaN/YbN 12,57 - 137,22 e Eu/Eu* 0,72 - 1,94. O SGS, ante aos resultados obtidos neste estudo, evidencia que a granitogênese no Domínio Macururé (DM) é complexa e que os sienogranitos leucocráticos que ocorrem bem distribuídos nesse domínio são pós-tectônicos e representam o produto de interação entre magmas riolíticos peraluminosos com magmas mantélicos shoshoníticos.

ABSTRACT: The Glória Sul Stock (SGS) (41 km2) is a round-shaped pluton, which intrudes the metasediments of the central area of the Macururé Domain, in the Sergipano Orogenic System (SOS). The stock encompasses a number of leucocratic syenogranites, including biotite syenogranite, muscovite-biotite bearing syenogranite and muscovite syenogranite. Mafic microgranular enclaves with syenitic composition are abundant in the biotite syenogranites but very rare in the muscovite-biotite bearing syenogranites. The syenogranites are predominantly metaluminous although the more evolved rocks show a peraluminous character. They can be classified as I-type and high-K calc-alkaline rocks. The syenitic enclaves are metaluminous and show shoshonitic geochemical characteristics. Geochemical modeling suggests that petrological diversity may be explained by considering mixing between peraluminous magma with ca. 73% SiO2 and a mafic shoshonitic magma with ca. 56% SiO2. Trace elements contents (Ba = 1,179 - 319 ppm; Rb = 351 - 55.3 ppm; Y = 16.7 - 1.6 ppm) are higher in the enclaves than in the granites. REE contents range from 38.58 - 299.21 ppm; LaN/YbN = 12.57 - 137.22 and Eu/Eu* = 0.72 - 1.94. The present data indicates that granitogenesis in the Macururé Domain (DM) is complex as well as that the widespread leucocratic syenogranites are post-tectonic, having been generated through interaction between peraluminous rhyolitic magmas and mantellic shoshonitic magmas.

The alkali-aggregate reaction (AAR) in concrete structures is a problem that has concerned engineers and researchers for decades. This reaction occurs when silicates in the aggregates react with the alkalis, forming an expanded gel that can cause cracks in the concrete and reduce its lifespan. The aim of this study was to characterize three coarse granitic aggregates employed in concrete production in northeastern Brazil, correlating petrographic analysis with the kinetics of silica dissolution and the evolution of expansions in mortar bars, assisted by SEM/EDS, XRD, and EDX. The presence of grains showing recrystallization into individual microcrystalline quartz subgrains was associated with faster dissolution of silica and greater expansion in mortar bars. Aggregates showing substantial deformation, such as stretched grains of quartz with strong undulatory extinction, experienced slower dissolution, with reaction and expansion occurring over longer periods that could not be detected using accelerated tests with mortar bars.

Resumo: O meteorito Bendegó, uma massa de ferro e níquel com 5.360 kg, é o maior exemplar da coleção brasileira e detentor de uma rica história de contribuições à ciência meteorítica. Sua descoberta em 1784 no sertão da Bahia, sua épica remoção para o Museu Nacional (Rio de Janeiro) no fnal do século XIX e sua participação em estudos que estabeleceram a classifcação química dos meteoritos metálicos na década de 1970 credenciam esse visitante espacial a reafrmar junto à comunidade geológica brasileira a importância dessas amostras extraterrestres que são autênticos arquivos repletos de informações sobre o que ocorreu nos primórdios do sistema solar e nos processos de diferenciação química dos planetas e asteróides. Este artigo estuda esse meteorito em seus contextos histórico, cósmico, geológico, petrológico e geoquímico lançando mão de técnicas analíticas avançadas a exemplo da análise por ativação de nêutrons, a espectroscopia de massa indutivamente acoplada a plasma e a microscopia eletrônica de varredura para melhor caracterizar as propriedades dessa massa de Fe-Ni que algum dia era parte integrante do núcleo de um objeto espacial sufcientemente grande para experimentar um processo de diferenciação química.

Abstract: The Bendegó meteorite, an iron and nickel mass weighting 5,360 kg, is the largest specimen in the Brazilian collection and holds a rich record of contributions to the meteoritic science. Its fnding in 1784 in the hinterland of Bahia State, its epic transportation to the National Museum (Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro) in the end of the XIX century, and its participation in the studies which lead to the chemical classifcation of the metallic meteorites in the 70´s, grant to this space visitor enough credibility to reinforce to the Brazilian geologic community the importance of those extraterrestrial samples, which are authentic records of the beginning of the solar system and early chemical differentiation processes of planets and asteroids. This paper presents new insights regarding the Bendegó historic, cosmic, geologic, petrologic and geochemical context and takes advantage from modern analytical methods, such as the instrumental neutron activation analysis, mass inductively coupled plasma spectroscopy, and scanning electronic microscopy, to better characterize the properties of such a Fe-Ni mass which, someday, would be the core of a space object, big enough to experiment a chemical differentiation process.