Structural,AMS and geochronological study of a laccolith emplaced during Late Variscan orogenic extension: the Rocles pluton (SE French Massif Central) |
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| Authors: | E Be Mezeme M Faure Y Chen A Cocherie J-Y Talbot |
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| Institution: | (1) Institut des Sciences de la Terre d’Orléans (ISTO), UMR CNRS 6113, Batiment Géosciences, Université d’Orléans, BP 6759, 45067 Orléans cedex 2, France;(2) BRGM, Av. Claude-Guillemin, BP 6009, 45060 Orléans cedex 2, France |
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| Abstract: | In the southern French Massif Central, the Rocles leucogranite of Variscan age consists of three petrographic facies; textural
analysis shows that they experienced the same subsolidus deformation. New chemical U-Th-Pb dating on monazite yielded 324 ± 4 Ma
and 325 ± 5 Ma ages for muscovite-rich and biotite-rich facies respectively. AMS-study results agree with petrostructural
observations. The magnetic planar and linear fabrics, which correspond to the preferred orientation of biotite and muscovite,
are consistent with the foliation and lineation defined by the preferred mineral orientation. This fabric developed during
pluton emplacement. The accordance of this granite foliation with that observed in the host rock, suggests that the Rocles
pluton is a laccolith, but its present geometry resulted from post-emplacement southward tilting due to the uplift of the
Late Carboniferous Velay dome. Restoration of the primary geometry of the pluton and its country-rocks to a flat-lying attitude
places the granite lineation close to the trend measured in other plutons of the area. This restoration further supports the
interpretation of the Rocles laccolith as a pluton emplaced along a tectonic contact reactivated during the late-orogenic
collapse of the Variscan Belt. |
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| Keywords: | Syntectonic pluton Extensional tectonics AMS fabric Variscan Belt French Massif Central |
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