The Baibokoum syenitic pluton(BSP),located in southern Chad,to the NE of the Adamawa-Yadédomain,is one of the few strongly potassic magmatic bodies in the southern part of the Central African Fold Belt(CAFB)in Ch...The Baibokoum syenitic pluton(BSP),located in southern Chad,to the NE of the Adamawa-Yadédomain,is one of the few strongly potassic magmatic bodies in the southern part of the Central African Fold Belt(CAFB)in Chad.It has been previously studied petrologically,but its petrogenesis has remained poorly known.Petrographic and whole-rock geochemical data presented in this article highlight their magma genesis and geodynamic evolution.The BSP consists of medium-to coarse-grained syenites associated with minor microdiorites,which occur as syn-plutonic dikes and mafic microgranular enclaves(MME)coarse-and medium-grained syenites outcrop respectively to the core and the border of the BSP.The syenite displays high-K and alkaline to trans-alkaline affinity.Petrographic and geochemical data suggest that medium-to coarse-grained syenites are from single magma source that evolved and differentiated by fractional crystallization in a magma reservoir.REE profiles show enriched LREEs(La_(N)/Yb_(N)=6.19-45.55)while HREEs show an almost flat profile(Dy_(N)/Yb_(N)=1.0-2.23),and the La/Sm and Sm/Yb ratios have led to propose that the aforementioned rocks derived from the partial melting of a garnet-spinel-lherzolite mantle source.Negative Nb and Ta anomalies indicate that this mantle source was modified by the addition of subduction-related material.Th/Yb ratios associated with high Ba/La ratios indicate that enrichment of the source could be related to slab-derived fluids.The parental magma of the BSP was generated by partial melting of the metasomatized lithospheric mantle that was modified into arc-magmatism material in a subduction setting.Its emplacement took place in two successive stages:a static stage of fractional crystallization and crystal settling in a deep magma source and a dynamic stage in a shear deformation setting during which stratified magma rises towards the upper crust,with evolved syenite magma being emplaced first and diorite later.The emplacement of the BSP was probably controlled by the evolution of the Tcholliré-Banyo Fault and M'BéréShear Zone during the Pan-African orogeny.展开更多
文摘The Baibokoum syenitic pluton(BSP),located in southern Chad,to the NE of the Adamawa-Yadédomain,is one of the few strongly potassic magmatic bodies in the southern part of the Central African Fold Belt(CAFB)in Chad.It has been previously studied petrologically,but its petrogenesis has remained poorly known.Petrographic and whole-rock geochemical data presented in this article highlight their magma genesis and geodynamic evolution.The BSP consists of medium-to coarse-grained syenites associated with minor microdiorites,which occur as syn-plutonic dikes and mafic microgranular enclaves(MME)coarse-and medium-grained syenites outcrop respectively to the core and the border of the BSP.The syenite displays high-K and alkaline to trans-alkaline affinity.Petrographic and geochemical data suggest that medium-to coarse-grained syenites are from single magma source that evolved and differentiated by fractional crystallization in a magma reservoir.REE profiles show enriched LREEs(La_(N)/Yb_(N)=6.19-45.55)while HREEs show an almost flat profile(Dy_(N)/Yb_(N)=1.0-2.23),and the La/Sm and Sm/Yb ratios have led to propose that the aforementioned rocks derived from the partial melting of a garnet-spinel-lherzolite mantle source.Negative Nb and Ta anomalies indicate that this mantle source was modified by the addition of subduction-related material.Th/Yb ratios associated with high Ba/La ratios indicate that enrichment of the source could be related to slab-derived fluids.The parental magma of the BSP was generated by partial melting of the metasomatized lithospheric mantle that was modified into arc-magmatism material in a subduction setting.Its emplacement took place in two successive stages:a static stage of fractional crystallization and crystal settling in a deep magma source and a dynamic stage in a shear deformation setting during which stratified magma rises towards the upper crust,with evolved syenite magma being emplaced first and diorite later.The emplacement of the BSP was probably controlled by the evolution of the Tcholliré-Banyo Fault and M'BéréShear Zone during the Pan-African orogeny.
