Granitoid Rocks

A few broad generalizations:

1) Most granitoids of significant volume occur in areas where

the continental crust has been thickened by orogeny, either
continental arc subduction or collision of sialic masses. Many
granites, however, may postdate the thickening event by tens of
millions of years;
2) Because the crust is solid in its normal state, some thermal
disturbance is required to form granitoids;
3) The majority of granitoids are derived by crustal anatexis;
4) The mantle contribution may range from that of a source of
heat for crustal anatexis, or it may be the source of material as
well
 Classification and origin of granites

• Granites are found in essentially in all tectonic

environnements, are derived from a wide variety of sources,
and evolve along multiple pathways.

• Granitic magmas may arise from direct melting of a vareity of

crustal source rocks, by differentiation of mantle derived melts,
and via various magma mixing scenarios.

•Major and trace element geochemistry, stable and radiogenic

isotope, and geochronology utilizing both whole rocks and
minerals, are used to unravel the petrogenesis of granites.
Granite: a plutonic rock poor on mafic minerals
Spessartine and almandine: Aluminous garnet
Aegirine : sodic clinopyroxene; Acmite: Variety of aegirine
Riebeckite et Richterite: sodic amphiboles
ORG: ocean
ridge
granites
VAG:
volcanic arc
granites
WPG:
within plate
granites
COLG:
collision
granites
 MAGMA MINGLING AND MIXING

When magmas of different composition, temperature, and viscosity come

together, they commonly create spectacular igneous structures.

Figures de mélange
magmatiques
(magma mingling)
: mise en place
synchrone des
deux magmas
mafique et felsique