Post-collisional magmatism in the Late Miocene Rodna-Bargau district (East Carpathians, Romania): Geochemical constraints and petrogenetic models

Post-collisional magmatism in the Late Miocene Rodna-Bargau subvolcanic district (East Carpathians) gave rise to a wide variety of rock compositions, allowing recognition of four groups of calcalkaline rocks with distinctive petrography, mineral chemistry, whole-rock geochemistry and Sr-Nd-Hf isotope features. New U-Pb zircon datings, together with literature data, indicate that the emplacement of the four rock groups was basically contemporaneous in the 11.5-8 Ma time span. The low potassium group (LKG) includes the most abundant lithotypes of the area, ranging from basaltic andesite to dacite, characterized by K-poor tschermakitic amphibole, weak enrichment in LILE and LREE, relatively low Sr-87/Sr-86, coupled with relatively high Nd-143/Nd-144 and Hf-176/Hf-177. The high potassium group (HKG) includes amphibole-bearing microgabbro, amphibole andesite and amphibole and biotite dacite, with K-richer magnesio-hastingsite to hastingsite amphibole, more marked enrichments in incompatible elements, higher Sr-87/Sr-86 and lower Nd-143/Nd-144 and Hf-176/Hf-177. These two main rock groups seem to have originated from similar juxtaposed mantle sources, with the HKG possibly related to slightly more enriched domains (with higher H2O reflected by the higher modal amphibole) with respect to LKG (with higher plagioclase/amphibole ratios). The evolution of the two rock series involved also open-system processes, taking place mainly in the upper crust for the HKG, in the lower crust for LKG magmas. In addition, limited occurrences of generally younger strongly evolved peraluminous rhyolites and microgranites (Acid group) and sialic-dominated "Ieucocratic" andesites and dacites (LAD group) were also recognized to the opposite outermost areas of the district. These two latter rock groups were generated by the melting of a basic metamorphic crustal source (respectively in hydrous and anhydrous conditions), favored by the heat released by mantle melts from the adjoining central area. The peculiar distribution of the products of the four rock groups in well defined sectors argues for a strong control of the local crustal tectonic regime on magmatism, influenced by the change from a transpressional to trastensional stage. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.