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Diorite Vein in Quenched Basalt and Its Implication for the Origin of Late-Granitoid Intrusives in Naga Hills Ophiolite, Northeast India

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Minor late-granitoids occur as leucocratic veins, apophyses and dykes cross-cutting gabbro, basalt and marine sediments of the Naga Hills Ophiolite (NHO) at the eastern edge of the Indian plate where it subducts under the Burmese microplate. These intrusives consist of diorite, granodiorite, granite, and quartz porphyry containing variable amounts of quartz, alkali feldspar, plagioclase, amphibole, minor biotite, and in some samples, accessory pyrite, chalcopyrite and magnetite. Emplacement of the late-granitoids was controlled by mega-fractures oriented N–S to NE–SW, and ESE–WNW directions that acted as transport conduits for base-metal sulphide and oxide mineralisation. Field observations, textural evidence and limited geochemical data indicate that the origin of the late-granitoid intrusives in basalt may be related to hydrothermal metamorphism and partial melting of basalt in the contact aureole of a magma chamber beneath an oceanic spreading center.

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Acknowledgements

The paper emerges out of a collection of samples from the Naga Hills Ophiolite made available to one of the authors (NCG) by O. P. Agrawal, retired Geological Adviser to Govt. of Nagaland. We are thankful to Fareeduddin of Geological Survey of India, Bangalore, D. K. Bhattacharya of Ranchi University for taking photomicrographs, and V. Balaram for kindly undertaking chemical analysis of limited number of samples at the National Geophysical Research Laboratory, Hyderabad.

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    Nilanjan Chatterjee

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Ghose, N.C., Chatterjee, N. (2011). Diorite Vein in Quenched Basalt and Its Implication for the Origin of Late-Granitoid Intrusives in Naga Hills Ophiolite, Northeast India. In: Dyke Swarms:Keys for Geodynamic Interpretation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12496-9_19

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