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Proterozoic Mafic Dykes from the Southern Margin of Cuddapah Basin, India: Part 1 – Geochemistry and Petrogenesis

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Around and south of the southern margin of the ProterozoicCuddapah Basin of India, basic dykes are intruding into the Archaean basement. 18 dykes have been sampled for geochemical work from the five localities and the samples from these were analysed for major, trace and REE. Based on the geochemical characteristics these dyke rocks falls under four groups. The features of each group are discussed in detail and comparison is made between the rocks under study and the upper crust, lower crust and other studied basic rocks in India and elsewhere, through rock-mantle normalized spidergrams. All the groups are found to be contaminated by the crustal rocks during their emplacement. The overall chemistry of these dykes assumes them to intraplate basalts with some crustal contamination or involvement of subduction modified lithospheric mantle (probably metasomatised). The Th/Ta and La/Yb ratios of these dykes suggest a mantle plume source. Further the REE inversion modeling studies indicate a deep mantle source with maximum estimated melt fraction of about 20%. A semi quantitative model for filtering the crustal signatures has also been attempted.

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Acknowledgements

MRG, CVRKP and VDR are thankful to Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of India for providing the financial assistance to carry out this study. KVS is grateful to Dan McKenzie of Cambridge University for introducing him to REE inversion modeling. Authors are thankful to Nilanjan Chatterjee and Rajesh K. Srivastava for their critical and constructive comments and suggestions which considerably elevated the quality of the paper. We are also thankful to Viswanathan, IIT, Mumbai for his suggestions on the earlier draft of the paper.

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  1. Dr. K.S. Krishnan Geomagnetic Research Laboratory, Indian Institute of Geomagnetism, Allahabad, 221 505, India

    M.R. Goutham

  2. University Centre for Earth and Space Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, 500 046, India

    K.V. Subbarao

  3. AMARARAMA, Vijayawada, India

    C.V.R.K. Prasad

  4. Department of Geology, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, TW 20 OEX, UK

    J.N. Walsh

  5. Department of Geology, Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati, India

    V. Damodara Reddy

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Goutham, M., Subbarao, K., Prasad, C., Walsh, J., Reddy, V.D. (2011). Proterozoic Mafic Dykes from the Southern Margin of Cuddapah Basin, India: Part 1 – Geochemistry and Petrogenesis. In: Dyke Swarms:Keys for Geodynamic Interpretation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12496-9_4

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