Granitoids and Their Importance in the Identification of Tectonic Environments, Geodynamic Evolution and Crustal Growth: Mineralizations, Geochronology, Elemental and Isotope Geochemistry
A special issue of Minerals (ISSN 2075-163X). This special issue belongs to the section "Mineral Geochemistry and Geochronology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2025 | Viewed by 28
Special Issue Editors
Interests: structural geology; tectonics; geological mapping; isotope and elemental geochemistry
Interests: mineralogy and petrology; metallogeny; granites and associated mineralizations
Interests: applied mineralogy and crystallography; microtect onics and fluid flow in natural systems; topotactic phase transformation in natural and synthetic systems; characterization of porous systems in rocks; analytical techniques focusing on mineralogy and material science (mainly EBSD, QEMSCAN, and MLA)
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Granitoids are the most abundant plutonic rocks in the continental crust, and their sources and relationship to specific tectonic environments have long been debated. Considering their mineralogical, structural, and geochemical characteristics, researchers accept that there is a tectonomagmatic connection, where each type of granitoid is related to defined tectonic settings, and that all magmatism is ultimately the product of processes from different tectonic phases and multisource and multi-process magmatism. Granitoids are formed in a variety of tectonic settings around the world, either at plate margins or intraplates. The petrology, geochemistry composition, isotopic characteristics, and temporal evolution of granitoids may offer important information about critical geodynamic processes that occurred during the evolution of the continental crust. Granitoids are not only indicators of crust–mantle interactions but can also be used to trace the tectonic evolutionary history of orogen and supercontinent reconstructions. Furthermore, geochemistry, ages, and isotopic features can indicate when orogenic processes ended and craton formation/stabilization began in Precambrian blocks.
Topics in this Special Issue include but are not restricted to the following:
- Age distribution, petrotectonic associations, and genetic models;
- The typology and evaluation of previously proposed classifications;
- Granitoids’ overall role in the evolution of the Earth's lithosphere;
- Granitoid associations and their temporal and tectonic context;
- Mineral chemistry as an indicator of granitoid’s magma temperatures;
- The temperature, pressure and conditions of granitoid crystallization;
- The formation of granitoid melts;
- Different types of granitoids and how their chemical characteristics may indicate tectonic settings and geodynamic evolution;
- Tectonic settings and granitoid sources;
- Geochronology and isotope geochemistry;
- Stable isotopes as tools to understand the granitoid’s genesis;
- Volcanic arc granitoids (cordilleran), collision-related, and ocean ridge granitoids;
- Granitoids, fluids, and ore deposits;
- Granitoids and the settings of mineral deposits;
- Implications for supercontinent reconstructions and crustal growth;
- Granitoids and crustal growth.
Dr. Jaime Estevão Scandolâra
Prof. Dr. Nilson Francisquini Botelho
Dr. Paola Ferreira Barbosa
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- mineralogy
- petrology
- geochemistry
- isotopic composition
- geochronology
- mineral and rocks
- ore deposits
- tectonic setting
- supercontinent
- crustal growth
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