TY - JOUR
T1 - Petrology and geochemistry of the Suhum Basin granitoid complex, Ghana
T2 - Implications for crustal growth during the Rhyacian orogeny of the West African Craton
AU - Kwayisi, Daniel
AU - Amponsah, Prince Ofori
AU - Awunyo, Emmanuel Kwaku
AU - Sapah, Marian Selorm
AU - Sakyi, Patrick Asamoah
AU - Su, Ben Xun
AU - Nude, Prosper M.
AU - Ayikwei, Abigail Enyonam
AU - Forson, Eric Dominic
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2025/2
Y1 - 2025/2
N2 - The Suhum Basin granitoid complex is an important granitoid complex of the Birimian terrane of Ghana for unravelling the crustal growth and evolution of the West African Craton (WAC) during the Rhyacian Eburnean orogeny. Almost the entire Suhum Basin is occupied by an extensive granitoid complex, which contains useful information for constraining debatable plate tectonic issues, especially during the Archean-Paleoproterozoic transition period. We present petrography, whole-rock geochemistry, and mineral chemistry data of biotite, amphibole, and plagioclase to constrain the temperature-pressure conditions of emplacement, petrogenesis, tectonic setting, the evolution of the granitoids complex of the Suhum Basin, and its implications for the crustal growth and evolution of the WAC. Four lithological types; granite gneiss, migmatites, leucogranites, and mafic enclaves, characterise the granitoid complex of the Suhum Basin. Biotites from the granitoid complex have an annite-siderophyllite composition, and that, coupled with their calc-alkaline and I-type signatures, indicates crystallisation of the granitoid complex of the Suhum Basin under oxidised conditions. The medium-to high-K character of the rocks, together with the calc-alkaline nature, may be a reflection of the generation of magma in regions where the mantle wedge might have interacted with enriched fluids from the underlying plate during dehydration. The enrichment of LILE and LREE relative to HREE and HFSE and the negative Eu, Nb-Ta, and Ti anomalies of the granitoids complex may indicate derivation from enriched magma sources with varying degrees of fractionation in an arc environment. Amphibole-plagioclase thermobarometry indicates that the granitoid complex formed at P-T conditions of 600–712 °C and 5.2–7.2 kbar, signifying a deeper depth (19–27 km) of emplacement. The overall geochemical data suggest that the rocks formed during a single orogenic event related to a volcanic arc environment where subduction zone components played a role in the generation of their parental magmas. This finding is therefore consistent with the onset of “modern-style” subduction-related processes during the Archean-Paleoproterozoic transitional period.
AB - The Suhum Basin granitoid complex is an important granitoid complex of the Birimian terrane of Ghana for unravelling the crustal growth and evolution of the West African Craton (WAC) during the Rhyacian Eburnean orogeny. Almost the entire Suhum Basin is occupied by an extensive granitoid complex, which contains useful information for constraining debatable plate tectonic issues, especially during the Archean-Paleoproterozoic transition period. We present petrography, whole-rock geochemistry, and mineral chemistry data of biotite, amphibole, and plagioclase to constrain the temperature-pressure conditions of emplacement, petrogenesis, tectonic setting, the evolution of the granitoids complex of the Suhum Basin, and its implications for the crustal growth and evolution of the WAC. Four lithological types; granite gneiss, migmatites, leucogranites, and mafic enclaves, characterise the granitoid complex of the Suhum Basin. Biotites from the granitoid complex have an annite-siderophyllite composition, and that, coupled with their calc-alkaline and I-type signatures, indicates crystallisation of the granitoid complex of the Suhum Basin under oxidised conditions. The medium-to high-K character of the rocks, together with the calc-alkaline nature, may be a reflection of the generation of magma in regions where the mantle wedge might have interacted with enriched fluids from the underlying plate during dehydration. The enrichment of LILE and LREE relative to HREE and HFSE and the negative Eu, Nb-Ta, and Ti anomalies of the granitoids complex may indicate derivation from enriched magma sources with varying degrees of fractionation in an arc environment. Amphibole-plagioclase thermobarometry indicates that the granitoid complex formed at P-T conditions of 600–712 °C and 5.2–7.2 kbar, signifying a deeper depth (19–27 km) of emplacement. The overall geochemical data suggest that the rocks formed during a single orogenic event related to a volcanic arc environment where subduction zone components played a role in the generation of their parental magmas. This finding is therefore consistent with the onset of “modern-style” subduction-related processes during the Archean-Paleoproterozoic transitional period.
KW - Birimian
KW - Granite Gneiss
KW - Migmatite
KW - Paleoproterozoic
KW - Suhum Basin
KW - West African Craton
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2024.105475
DO - 10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2024.105475
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85209244012
SN - 1464-343X
VL - 222
JO - Journal of African Earth Sciences
JF - Journal of African Earth Sciences
M1 - 105475
ER -