Geochemistry and Origin of Early Proterozoic Dongargarh Rapakivi Granite Complex, Central India - An Example for Magma Mixing and Differentiation

Early Proterozoic Dongargarh granite complex of Central India, intruding the tonalitic to granodioritic Amgaon gneisses and the Nandgaon Group bimodal volcanic suite, comprises three different textural and compositional types, viz., porphyritic granodiorite (PG), coarse equigranular granite (EG) and microgranite (MG). Synplutonic mafic dykes are common in the granite complex. The PG is characterised by rapakivi texture and the EG is the dominant facies and exhibits sporadically developed rapakivi texture. Microgranular enclaves are common in the EG while they are rare in PG. Major and trace element geochemistry of PG shows marked I- type and some occasional A-type granite characters unusual for a rapakivi granite while the EG shows A-type granite signatures. The field, petrographic, chemical and isotopic data of these granites suggest their derivation by mixing of mantle derived basic magma with a crustal-derived partly crystalline granitic magma. Episodic mafic magma underplating caused the anatexis of the Archaean lower continental crust in a continental margin tectonic setting resulting first in the formation of the I-type granodiorite followed by A-type granite. The I-type granodiorite is mixed with the basic magma (synplutonic dykes) while the EG is formed by mingling of A- type granite magma and the intruding basic magma.