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Journal Article 
Nature and significance of a Cambro-Ordovician high-K, calc-alkaline sub-volcanic suite: the late- to post-orogenic Motru Dyke Swarm (Southern Carpathians, Romania) 
Femenias, O; Berza, T; Tatu, M; Diot, H; Demaiffe, D 
2008 
Yes 
International Journal of Earth Sciences
ISSN: 1437-3254
EISSN: 1437-3262 
SPRINGER 
NEW YORK 
97 
3 
479-496 
English 
WOS:000254903800003 
The Motru Dyke Swarm intrudes the Precambrian Danubian basement of the Southern Carpathians (Romania). It is a marker of a sub-volcanic event that occurred during the early Palaeozoic (Cambrian to Ordovician). The geographical distribution of dykes on a similar to 2,000 km(2) area is heterogeneous; several areas of high dyke density have been the subject of a detailed petrological and geochemical study. Taken altogether, the 150 samples define a single complete magmatic series, from basaltic andesite to rhyolite. Whole-rock major element variations show a medium- to high-K, calc-alkaline magmatic suite. The compositional variations and the general decrease of trace element contents (both compatible and incompatible, including REEs) from basaltic andesite to rhyolite are consistent with 1) the fractionation of the observed phenocryst assemblages, Ca-amphibole (Ti-pargasite to magnesiohornblende) followed by intermediate plagioclase, clinopyroxene and accessory biotite and quartz and 2) the absence of lower and/or upper crustal contamination. Trace elements diagrams display typical arc patterns (LILE, Pb and LREE enrichment and relative depletion in Nb-Ta, Zr-Hf and Ti). The Th/U, Nb/Ta and Zr/Hf ratios are constant and close to the mantle values throughout the whole series, which argues that the parental magma was generated from a single and homogeneous enriched lithospheric mantle source. The field regional evidence implies that melting occurred during a late- to post-orogenic period of lithospheric extension, and thus took place quite lately after the cessation of Pan-African subduction. 
Dyke Swarm; calc-alkaline; late- to post-orogenic; geochemistry; Romania; chemical classification; magmatism; rocks; evolution; geochemistry; petrogenesis; egypt; arc; crystallization; differentiation