Pukala intrusion, its age and connection to hydrothermal alteration in Orivesi, southwestern Finland

• Main Authors: M. Talikka, I. Mänttäri
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Geological Society of Finland 2005-12-01
• Series: Bulletin of the Geological Society of Finland
• Subjects: intrusions; granodiorites; trondhjemite; geochemistry; Svecofennian orogeny; hydrothermal alteration; absolute age; U/Pb; Paleoproterozoic; Pukala; Kutemajärvi; Orivesi; Finland
• Online Access: http://www.geologinenseura.fi/bulletin/Volume77/TalikkaManttari.pdf
• ISSN: 0367-5211; 1799-4632

The Pukala intrusion is situated in the Paleoproterozoic Svecofennian domain of the Fennoscandian Shield in the contact region between the Central Finland Granitoid Complex and the Tampere Belt. The acid subvolcanic intrusion, which is in contact or close to several altered domains, mainly consists of porphyritic granodiorite and trondhjemite. The Pukala intrusion was emplaced into volcanic sequence in an island-arc or fore-arc setting before or during the early stages of the main regional deformation phase of the Svecofennian orogeny. On the basis of the geochemical data, the Pukala intrusion is a peraluminous volcanic-arc granitoid. After crystallisation at 1896 ±3 Ma, multiphase deformation and metamorphism caused alteration, recrystallisation, and orientation of the minerals, and tilted the intrusion steeply towards south. The 1851 ±5 Ma U-Pb age for titanite is connected to the late stages of the Svecofennian tectonometamorphic evolution of the region. Several hydrothermally altered domains are located in the felsic and intermediate metavolcanic rocks of the Tampere Belt within less than one kilometre south of the Pukala intrusion. Alteration is divided into three basic types: partial silica alteration, chlorite-sericite±silica alteration, and sericite alteration in shear zones. The first two types probably formed during the emplacement and crystallisation of the Pukala intrusion, and the third is linked to late shearing. Intense sericitisation and comb quartz bands in the contact of the intrusion and the altered domain at Kutemajärvi suggest that the hydrothermal system was driven by the Pukala intrusion.