An integrated study involving whole-rock and Sr–Nd–Hf isotope geochemistry and zircon geochronology and trace element combined with detailed field investigation was carried out for the composite Meiwu batholith in the West Qinling orogenic belt of central China to probe the origins of its compositional diversity and its emplacement history. The batholith is composed of quartz diorite, granodior...

Archean greenstone belts are renowned for their Au endowment. Gold can be associated with orogenic style of mineralization and diorite-hosted Au-Cu disseminated sulfides interpreted as a porphyry mineralization. The Regnault project, located in the Frotet–Evans belt (Superior craton), is structurally-controlled an unclear metallogenic model. aim this study to evaluate fertility granodiorite-dio...

Three syenite dike sets, named the Santa Cruz dikes, are coeval with the 627 ± 13 Ma old porphyritic calc-alkalic Princesa Izabel granitoid, northeastern Brazil. Dike set 1 is up to 1.5 m wide, strike 030 e040 Az, roughly parallel to the regional foliation. Dike set 2 strikes 120 e130 Az and consists of xenolith-bearing syenites and is roughly parallel to dike set 3, which is up to 1.5 m wide a...

The plutonic complex in SE Jersey consists of a late Precambrian gabbro-diorite mass which has been intruded by several granites. The status of the diorites which, like the gabbros, often possess a layered structure, is not clear. New geochemical data, including rare earth and trace element analyses, suggest that acid-basic magma mixing was not responsible for the variety of intermediate rocks....

We report in-situ dating, and Hf O-isotope studies of zircon crystals, together with electron microprobe imaging garnet crystals from a migmatitic diorite containing noritic globules, in the Ursuya massif (French Pyrenees). Diorite have old inherited cores 295 ± 2 Ma rims, while those norite are homogeneous, lower U Pb, higher Th Th/U ratios than rims. The dates represent crystallization age hy...