Abstract New petrographic, lithogeochemical and structural analyses were performed on the Upper Cretaceous lamprophyres emplaced in the Proterozoic basement rocks of the Resende sedimentary basin in SE Brazil. Field characteristics and petrographic data confirm their identification as alkaline lamprophyres. Geochemical variations were mainly controlled by fractional crystallization of clinopyroxene and olivine. Liquid immiscibility, rapid cooling and crustal assimilation may have occurred subordinately during the evolution of the Resende lamprophyres. Mantle and chondrite-normalized diagrams point to an enriched mantle as the lamprophyre’s magma source. Th/Yb and Ta/Yb ratios confirm a within-plate enriched mantle source with residual carbonate and phlogopite/amphibole as suggested by LILE enrichment and the presence of carbonate and phlogopite/amphibole as primary phases. The predominance of an ENE-trend of the dykes is related to a prevalent NNW-SSW orientation of the minimum principal stress (σ3) orientation in an extensional regime during the emplacement of the Resende lamprophyres’ dyke swarm. Frequent offsets produced by local dilation direction are parallel to the NNW-oriented extension of the main segments. WNW to NW secondary sets are controlled by previous discontinuities that were favored as pathways for the highly volatile lamprophyre magma. An NNW-SSE distension related to the Resende lamprophyre dyke swarm emplacement is consistent with the early stages of evolution of the Resende basin and uplift of its basement during the Late Cretaceous to the Paleocene.

RESUMO: A área de estudo está localizada na nappe Socorro, faixa Brasília Meridional, e no terreno Embu, faixa Ribeira central. Foram detectadas três fases de deformação, Dn-1, Dn e Dn+1. Na maior parte da área estudada, Sn-1 só ocorre preservado em charneiras de dobras, estando geralmente transposto por Sn. No entanto, na parte noroeste, Sn-1 está bem preservado e representa a foliação principal que mergulha cerca de 60º para W e SW. Associadas a essa foliação, ocorrem localmente lineações de estiramento/mineral down dip. A foliação principal na maior parte da área é Sn. Ela mergulha cerca de 70º para SSE e raramente para NW. As dobras Dn variam de apertadas a isoclinais com eixos que mergulham cerca de 40º para SW. Veios de segregação quartzo-feldspáticos são dobrados por Dn. As estruturas relacionadas à Dn-1 e Dn são afetadas por quatro zonas de cisalhamento atribuídas à fase deformacional Dn+1, zonas de cisalhamento São Bento do Sapucaí, Caxambu, Campos do Jordão e Buquira. Duas amostras de um corpo granítico alongado e em parte afetado pela zona de cisalhamento Caxambu foram datadas. Uma rendeu a idade de cristalização de 575 ± 5 Ma, e a outra, retirada de uma parte do granito afetada pela zona de cisalhamento, idade de 567 ± 8 Ma, interpretada como a idade do cisalhamento, ou como o crescimento metamórfico tardio relacionado à Dn.

ABSTRACT: The study area is localized in the Socorro nappe, part of the southern Brasília belt, with a minor part in the Embu terrane, part of the central Ribeira belt. Three phases of deformation were detected, Dn-1, Dn and Dn+1. Sn-1 seems to be generally transposed into Sn, but in the northwestern part it is well preserved, dipping about 60º to W and SW, with a stretching and/or mineral lineation plunging down dip. The main foliation in most of the area is Sn, dipping about 70º to SSE. Dn folds are tight to isoclinal, with axes that plunge about 40º to SW. Quartz-feldspathic segregation veins are folded by Dn. The structures related to Dn-1 and Dn are cut and modified by four important shear zones ascribed to deformation phase Dn+1. Two samples of a granite that is elongated along the Caxambu shear zone, and also cut by it, were dated. One yielded a crystallization age of 575 ± 5 Ma, and the other one, from the shear zone, an age of 567 ± 8 Ma, interpreted either as representing the age of movement along the Caxambu shear zone, or as metamorphic growth.