Magnetic Fabrics of the Cabreuva Granite, São Paulo State, SE Brazil: Preliminary Results

Abstract:

Magnetic fabric and rock magnetism studies were performed on the units of the 570 ± 3 Ma-old isotropic Cabreuva granite (NW of São Paulo State). This intrusion with 160 km² is roughly elliptical in the oriental and occidental sectors whereas in the south sector it is circular. It is composed of quartz-monzodiorite, granodiorite, quartz-monzonite, monzogranite, diorite, quartz syenite and synogarnite. Magnetic fabrics were determined by applying both anisotropy of low-field magnetic susceptibility (AMS) and anisotropy of anhysteretic remanent magnetization (AARM). The two fabrics are coaxial. The parallelism between AMS and AARM tensors excludes the presence of a single domain (SD) effect on the AMS fabric of the units. Several rock-magnetism experiments performed in one specimen from each sampled unit show that for all units the magnetic susceptibility and magnetic fabrics are carried by magnetite grains.

Foliations and lineations in the units were successful determined by applying magnetic methods. Most of the magnetic foliations are horizontal or steeply dipping in all units, and are roughly parallel to the foliation of the rocks which surround the granite. The magnetic lineations present mostly low plunges for the whole pluton. Thin section analysis show that rocks from the Cabreuva granite were not affected by the regional strain during and after emplacement. This evidence allows us to interpret the observed magnetic fabrics as primary in origin (magmatic) acquired when the rocks were solidified as a result of magma flow, in which horizontally plunging magnetic lineation suggests that the feeder zone is far from this area.