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Late Cretaceous subduction of the continental basement of the Maya block (Rabinal Granite, central Guatemala): Tectonic implications for the geodynamic evolution of Central America

2013; Geological Society of America; Volume: 125; Issue: 3-4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1130/b30743.1

1943-2674

Luigi Solari, Antonio García‐Casco, Uwe Martens, J. K. W. Lee, Amabel Ortega‐Rivera,

Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping

Research Article| March 01, 2013 Late Cretaceous subduction of the continental basement of the Maya block (Rabinal Granite, central Guatemala): Tectonic implications for the geodynamic evolution of Central America Luigi A. Solari; Luigi A. Solari † 1Centro de Geociencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Campus Juriquilla, 76001 Querétaro, Querétaro, Mexico †E-mail: solari@servidor.unam.mx. Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Antonio García-Casco; Antonio García-Casco 2Departamento de Mineralogía y Petrología, Universidad de Granada, and Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)–Universidad de Granada, Avenida Fuentenueva s⁄n, 18002 Granada, Spain Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Uwe Martens; Uwe Martens 1Centro de Geociencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Campus Juriquilla, 76001 Querétaro, Querétaro, Mexico3Tectonic Analysis Ltd., Chestnut House, Duncton, West Sussex GU28 0LH, UK Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar James K.W. Lee; James K.W. Lee 4Department of Geological Sciences & Geological Engineering, Miller Hall, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Amabel Ortega-Rivera Amabel Ortega-Rivera 5Estación Regional del Noroeste, Instituto de Geología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado Postal 1039, 83000 Hermosillo, Sonora, México Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar GSA Bulletin (2013) 125 (3-4): 625–639. https://doi.org/10.1130/B30743.1 Article history received: 11 Jun 2012 rev-recd: 05 Oct 2012 accepted: 17 Oct 2012 first online: 08 Mar 2017 Cite View This Citation Add to Citation Manager Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Search Site Citation Luigi A. Solari, Antonio García-Casco, Uwe Martens, James K.W. Lee, Amabel Ortega-Rivera; Late Cretaceous subduction of the continental basement of the Maya block (Rabinal Granite, central Guatemala): Tectonic implications for the geodynamic evolution of Central America. GSA Bulletin 2013;; 125 (3-4): 625–639. doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/B30743.1 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Refmanager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentBy SocietyGSA Bulletin Search Advanced Search Abstract The Rabinal Granite is a peraluminous S-type composite pluton formed upon partial melting of a metasedimentary source region that fringes the southernmost North America plate in central Guatemala. It is therefore considered, together with the intruded metasedimentary sequences, to be part of the continental basement of the Maya block. This leucocratic K-feldspar–plagioclase–quartz–muscovite ± biotite granite shows increasing deformation along its southern margin, where it is cut across by the dextral, Late Cretaceous, top-to-the-NE Baja Verapaz shear zone. Although it has been recently dated at 562–453 Ma (isotope dilution–thermal ionization mass spectrometry), the new data presented here, including laser ablation–inductively coupled plasma–mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) U-Pb and 40Ar-39Ar geochronology and electron-probe mineral chemistry, allow us to more precisely establish the timing of intrusion and metamorphic overprinting of the Rabinal Granite. The zircons dated by LA-ICP-MS indicate a crystallization age of 471 +3/−5 Ma (Early Ordovician), as well as abundant inherited cores with Pan-African and Mesoproterozoic dates. Laser total fusion Ar-Ar analyses of magmatic low-silica muscovite (Si = 6.2–6.4 atoms per formula unit) indicate cooling following magmatic crystallization during the mid-late Paleozoic and variable extents of resetting of Ordovician micas during Cretaceous metamorphism and deformation. The pressure-temperature (P-T) conditions of the inferred Ordovician metamorphism that produced partial melting of the metasedimentary source of the Rabinal Granite and the ascent and crystallization of the granitic melt are uncertain, but a clockwise P-T-time path with maximum P and T of <8 kbar and 750 °C, respectively, is proposed. A second thermal event is recognized in recrystallized high-silica muscovite (Si up to = 6.8 atoms per formula unit) formed at peak P and T of ∼8.5 kbar and ∼300 °C, respectively. This second event, dated at 70.1 ± 0.6 Ma by means of laser total fusion 40Ar-39Ar analyses on high-Si muscovite grains, is interpreted to be the result of subduction and accretion of the basement of the Maya block during the latest Cretaceous, likely in a transpressional tectonic regime related to the lateral collision of the Maya block with the Pacific (Farallon)–derived Caribbean arc. This finding represents the first direct evidence for latest Cretaceous subduction of the metamorphic Paleozoic basement of the Maya block, north of the Baja Verapaz shear zone. You do not have access to this content, please speak to your institutional administrator if you feel you should have access.