Petrogenesis of the Riacho do Icó Stock: evidence for Neoproterozoic slab melting during accretion tectonics in the Borborema Province?

One of the main characteristics of the Borborema Province in northeastern Brazil is the abundance of granitic domains. The Lagoa das Pedras plutonic-volcanic Complex record remnants of early to late Neoproterozoic primitive to highly evolved magmas. U-Pb SHRIMP determinations and whole-rock geochemistry on the granitic to granodioritic Riacho do Icó Stock, which is the largest plutonic body of this complex, were conducted. Zircon dating reveals that this body was intruded in the crust at 607 ± 3 Ma, whereas metamorphic overgrowths are coeval within uncertainty (600 ± 8 Ma). Geochemical characteristics of this stock suggest that it corresponds to Cordilleran-type magmas injected in the lithosphere above a subduction zone. Sr and Y contents in addition to MgO and SiO 2 values are compatible with high-silica adakite-like magmas, interpreted as the result of slab melting in deep-seated regions. Based on the integration of this study and literature data, we suggest that the Riacho do Icó intrusion might be a dismembered part of a major continental magmatic arc described in the Central Subprovince of the Borborema Province, marking the onset of the accretionary stage of the Brasiliano orogeny.


INTRODUCTION
The generation and emplacement of granitic magmas in the lithosphere has always been a thought-provoking topic for the geological community, once that the proposed petrogenetic processes are quite variable for distinct geological periods and environments (e.g. Chappell & White 1974, Barbarin 1999, Martin et al. 2005, Bonin 2007, Rollinson 2009). Indeed, the investigation of the origin of granitic rocks is critical to understand the evolution of the continental crust, as they represent key records of its growth, recycling, and preservation (Dhuime et al. 2012, Hawkesworth et al. 2010. Magma emplacement in the crust is most likely associated to space creation in highly deformed regions, which is triggered by the crustal flow (Paterson & Fowler Jr. 1993). In spite of the variety of the proposed mechanisms for plutonic emplacement -including diapirism, ballooning, and stopping -, their practical application may be confusing (see Petford et al. 2000 for details), resulting in a number of geochemical and geophysical modeling proposals (e.g. Kusumoto & Takemura 2003, Magee et al. 2016, Rochira et al. 2018. Nevertheless, there is a longstanding consensus that granitic magmas can be generated in a wide range of geological settings, and are valuable markers to investigate crustal and mantle sources. For instance, peraluminous magmas are generally interpreted as the result of partial melting of metasedimentary rocks in collisional zones (Chappell & White 2001), calc-alkaline rocks are typically found in volcanic arcs above subduction zones (Sheth et al. 2002) and plagiogranites are interpreted as final products of partial melting and fractionation of basaltic sources in intra-oceanic settings (Koepke et al. 2006).
One of the main features of the Borborema Province in northeastern Brazil is the vast number of granitic batholiths and stocks that are closely related to the regional deformation imposed by the Brasiliano-Pan African Orogeny (650-500 Ma; Santos & Medeiros 1999, Brito Neves et al. 2000. Among them, one of the most intriguing composite plutonic-volcanic domains of the central Borborema Province is the Lagoa das Pedras Complex, which represents a unique record of longlived superimposed magmatic pulses that were later affected by regional deformation and metamorphism (960-600 Ma; Santos 1995). It is composed of a sequence of mafic-ultramafic rocks interpreted as ophiolite remnants and arc root-related magmas aged at c. 1.0 Ga (Serrote das Pedras Pretas Suite), coeval metagranites and anatexites (Recanto and Riacho do Forno suites), as well as relics of late Neoproterozoic plutons (Riacho do Icó, São João and Serra do Arapuá; Santos 1995, Kozuch 2003.
Petrogenesis of the Riacho do Icó Stock: evidence for Neoproterozoic slab melting during accretion tectonics in the Borborema Province?
Within this complex, the Riacho do Icó stock represents the largest plutonic pulse, presenting both magmatic structures (enclaves, magmatic foliation, and xenoliths) and tectonic markers (ductile and brittle-related). In this paper, the main geological and geochemical characteristics of the Riacho do Icó stock are explored and their first U-Pb zircon determinations are presented in order to contribute to the understanding of the Neoproterozoic crustal evolution of the Borborema Province.
Granitic domains are abundant and precisely record distinct stages of the Brasiliano orogeny (pre-, syn-and post-tectonic magmatism), having been intensively investigated for decades (Almeida et al. 1967, Sial 1987  1999, Guimarães & Silva Filho 2000, Guimarães et al. 2005, Ferreira et al. 2003, Neves et al. 2006, Brito Neves et al. 2016. A review of the overall petrological aspects of the granites can be found in Ferreira et al. (1998), Van Schmus et al. (2011), and Sial & Ferreira (2016. The crustal architecture of the northern subprovince records a series of rocks with magmatic arc affinity ranging from Archean to Neoproterozoic in age, as well as the best-preserved high to ultra-high pressure metamorphic assemblages of the Borborema Province (Nascimento et al. 2015, Ganade de Araújo et al. 2014b, Santos et al. 2014. The Central Subprovince is interpreted as the result of a complex crustal assembly history during the Neoproterozoic, limited by expressive NE-SW shear zones. It comprises the São José do Caiano, Piancó-Alto Brígida, Alto Pajeú, Alto Moxotó, and Rio Capibaribe domains/ terranes. Terrane assembly and plate tectonics processes such as subduction and continental collision have been invoked as responsible for the Neoproterozoic crustal building of this area (e.g., Santos & Medeiros 1999, Kozuch 2003, Medeiros 2004, Santos et al. 2010, 2017b, Brito Neves et al. 2016, Basto et al. 2019, but intracontinental orogenesis is also regarded (Neves 2015).
The southern subprovince includes the marginal fold belts that have tectonic vergence toward the São Francisco Craton in the south: i.e. Sergipano, Riacho do Pontal, and Rio Preto belts, as well as the Pernambuco-Alagoas Domain. Archean to early Neoproterozoic rocks are present; however, remnants of Ediacaran subduction-related rocks are interpreted as the main crust forming markers of this subprovince evolution (Silva Filho et al. 2010, Oliveira et al. 2010, Caxito et al. 2014a, Alcântara et al. 2017; important oceanic crust remnants of probable Cryogenian age fingerprint Neoproterozoic plate tectonics processes in this region (Caxito et al. 2014b).

The Alto Pajeú Terrane and the Lagoa das Pedras Complex
The Alto Pajeú Terrane is bounded to the Alto Moxotó and Piancó Alto Brígida terranes by the Serra de Jabitacá Nappe and Riacho do Caboclo Shear Zone, respectively (Santos & Medeiros 1999, Santos et al. 2017b. Unlike other domains of the Borborema Province, Paleoproterozoic crust is rare and the general lithostratigraphic record comprises metaplutonic and supracrustal rocks related to the Stenian-Tonian Cariris Velhos Event (1.0-0.9 Ga; Santos et al. 2010). The general geochemical and isotope signature of metagranites, orthogneisses and metavolcanic sequences points out to an episode of ocean-continent convergence (Kozuch 2003, Santos et al. 2010, Caxito et al. 2014a, including preserved ophiolite remnants ). However, based on the geochemistry of Cariris Velhos metaplutonic units, Guimarães et al. (2016) suggest instead that these rocks correspond to magmas generated in a within-plate regime. Calc-alkaline and shoshonitic granitoids intrude these sequences, ranging from 650 to 620 Ma (Sial & Ferreira 2016 and references therein).
The São Caetano Complex corresponds to the largest unit of the Alo Pajeú Terrane, hosting most of the granitic intrusions. This complex encompasses metasedimentary and metavolcanic rocks, aged 806 (Guimarães et al. 2012) and 858 Ma , being in contact with the Lagoa das Pedras Complex (Fig. 2), which corresponds to a set of (meta)plutonic/volcanic rocks deformed by NE-SW shear zones that impose regional folding (Lima et al. 1985). Such structural arrangement is related to the thrust structure that bounds these rocks against the Archean and Paleoproterozoic crust of the Alto Moxotó Terrane (Santos et al. 2017a) and the strong influence of a regional sinistral strikeslip splay of shear zones known as Afogados da Ingazeira Shear System (Santos 1995).
The Lagoa das Pedras Pretas Complex occupies an area of 800 km 2 , being divided into two geochronological groups: The oldest unit is the 1.0 Ga Serrote das Pedras Pretas mafic-ultramafic suite. It is composed of metagabbros, amphibolites, peridotites, and metapyroxenites that form a cluster of gently folded small bodies and lenses characterized by eclogitic mineral assemblages as well as Fe-Ti-V mineralization (Santos 1995.
Granites with ages ranging from 960 to 920 Ma include the Recanto and Riacho do Forno plutons that are interpreted as the result of regional anatexis, cropping out as tabular sheets along SSE-verging thrust surfaces. The former occurs as metagranodiorites to metamonzogranites, and might bear augen and mylonitic structures, whereas the latter is characterized by local migmatization, showing well-developed neosome and strongly folded leucosome layers, including two mica diatexites. Lastly, the Riacho do Icó Stock is the dominant late Neoproterozoic granitic body, being coeval to similar granitic intrusions, such as the Serra do Arapuá, São Pedro and São João granites.

Field relationships
The Riacho do Icó stock displays en cornue shape oriented in the E-W direction; its tail follows the NE trend of the Afogados da Ingazeira Shear Zone as the result of crustal shortening and shearing. In the mesoscopic scale, rocks from this intrusion are mostly leucocratic and can be divided into two well-defined facies. In the core of the intrusion, coarsegrained to porphyritic biotite-and amphibole-bearing granites predominate. The magmatic fabric is characterized by the orientation of amphibole clots and potassic feldspar phenocrystals that delineate a moderately developed magmatic foliation. The central portion of the intrusion presents, 2 to 12 cm-ranged subrounded to elliptic mafic (dioritic) autholiths (Fig. 3A), whereas amphibolitic, gneissic, breccia-type, and mylonitic xenoliths (Fig. 3B) are widespread and interpreted as relicts of early Neoproterozoic host-rocks units such as the São Caetano Complex.
Mega xenoliths/roof pendants of ultramafic rocks including Ti-bearing ore bodies of the Serrote das Pedras Pretas Suite (SPP) cover large areas in the interior of the stock (Fig. 3C). This region is also characterized by local nappes, including tabular granitic sheets that partially obliterate early magmatic fabrics, being interpreted as the first tectonic overprint within the stock. Deformed members of this facies show low-dipping foliations and inclined mica-bearing planes with crenulated lineations that gently dip toward the inner portions of the stock (Fig. 3D).
The second facies on the Riacho do Icó Stock occurs on its southern margin. Progressive deformation related to the Afogados da Ingazeira Shear Zone imposes strain gradation from tabular granitic sheets to gneissic and mylonitic members. Strongly deformed members (e.g., the NE tail) include planar-linear tectonites with sub-to vertical foliation planes (> 65º) that are associated with biotite, amphibole, and muscovite-rich horizontal mineral stretching lineations. Such markers associated with mesoscale kinematic criteria, including S-C type surfaces and σ-type porphyroclasts (Fig. 3E) confirm the sinistral vorticity of the related ductile structures, whereas C' extensional shear bands and asymmetric boudins indicate a transition between strike-slip and extensional regimes. Along the granitic boundaries, the contact between the intrusion and host rocks is tectonic, but chilled margins can be observed (

Petrography
Point count classification of the studied rocks (50 points from each sample on average) indicates that they correspond to monzogranites and granodiorites (Fig. 4). In samples collected in the inner portions of the intrusion, the hypidiomorphic texture is dominant, however, a granophyric arrangement of crystals might be observed in fine-grained members. A prevalent xenomorphic groundmass occurs in coarse-grained samples, including the porphyritic granites. In the marginal zones, rocks tend to develop mylonitic structures, characterized by K-feldspar rotation and recrystallized quartz crystals, forming ribbons along minor foliation planes composed of bent-flake mica.
Microcline crystals usually exhibit well-developed hatched-twining, whereas film perthite texture is common in orthoclase phenocrysts (Fig. 5B). This mineral also contains several minor inclusions, such as variable-sized subhedral quartz and biotite grains. Plagioclase crystals are mostly subhedral, being classified as oligoclase-andesine. It presents simple Ca-Na zonation, tiny myrmekite intergrowths and moderate degrees of sericitization. Hornblende crystals are mostly subhedral and are generally associated with subhedral to euhedral titanite crystals. They also form elongated aggregates along planar magmatic flow (Fig. 5C).
Allanite exhibits strong zonation as well as inner fractured core, which is an evidence of local metamictization (Fig. 5D). Secondary clinozoisite and epidote occur as products of plagioclase alteration.

ANALYTICAL PROCEDURES
One sample was selected for U-Pb sensitive high-resolution ion microprobe (SHRIMP) analysis at the Research School  of Earth Sciences of the Australian National University. It was polished and characterized through various image types, including visual and back-scattered, being coated with a conductive material to avoid sample charging. All analyses were guided by previously obtained cathodoluminescence images in order to obtain information about the inner structures of the zircon crystals. The standard used was the FC1 (1099 Ma; Paces & Miller 1993). A detailed analytical procedure used in this analysis can be found in Williams (1998) and Stern (1997). Data were reduced in Isoplot 4.5 (Ludwig 2012).
For the geochemical investigation, twelve samples were selected, avoiding those with evidence of deformation and alteration, and then analyzed for major and trace element distributions at the GEOSOL and NEG-LABISE laboratories in Brazil. Oxides of major elements were determined using a Varian Vista Pro Inductively Plasma Atomic Emission Spectrometer (ICP-AES) as well as an X-Ray Fluorescence Rigaku ZSX Primus II spectrometer. Trace elements were determined via Perkin-Elmer Sciex ELAN 6000 inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (ICP-MS). Analytical precision was 1-5% for major oxides and ± 10% for trace elements. The selected geochemical diagrams were acquired in the GCDkit software ( Janoušek et al. 2006) and by in-house reproduced excel spreadsheets.

U-Pb GEOCHRONOLOGY
The Sample ES-15 was selected for U-Pb SHRIMP zircon determinations and corresponds to a hornblende-biotite granodiorite that lacks any evidence of tectonic deformation (geographical coordinates 8º28'27"S and 38º35'41"W). Analytical determinations are presented in Table 1. Zircon crystals from this sample are euhedral, mostly translucent, and form 80-220 μm elongated prisms. Their axial ratios range between 2:1 and 5:1 and they present well-developed oscillatory zoning. Also, rim overgrowths are widespread (Fig. 6A).
U and Th contents of the analyzed zircon crystals are wide ranged, i.e. between 49 and 1,049, and 1 and 1,045 ppm, respectively. Three groups of zircon crystals were identified. The first is composed of crystals that show strongly developed oscillatory zoning and present Th/U ratios higher than 0.1. They yielded a Concordia age of 607 ± 3 Ma (Fig. 6B), which is interpreted as the crystallization age of the granodiorite.
On the other hand, several spots were conducted in crystals with recrystallization rims that are characterized by very low Th/U ratios. They yield a Concordia age of 600 ± 8 Ma (Fig. 6C), which probably represents a local metamorphic event, such as migmatization, once that it is coeval to the interpreted magmatic ages. Three crystals (not plotted) are slightly older, presenting ages at around 950 Ma (#17.3, 13.2, and 6.2), which are interpreted as an inheritance of host rocks.

Magma emplacement
Due to the variety of contrasting geological features of the Riacho do Icó Stock, they might bring out distinct hypotheses for magma emplacement, which has already been partially discussed by Santos (1995) and even now, still needs further investigations. For instance, as commonly invoked to explain plutonic injection in middle to upper crustal levels in several orogenic belts worldwide (e.g., Cruden 1990), part of the Riacho do Icó parental magma might represent buoyant material that formed via diapirism, forcing host/wall supracrustal and adjoining metaplutonic rocks upward. The main evidence for this hypothesis include: • roughly rounded to ellipsoidal shape of the intrusion; • deviation of the host-rocks foliation; • low-angle tectonic foliation and high-pitch down-dip lineation that converge to the center of the intrusion.
Such a model has been widely used to explain the famous "space problem" of granites, especially in post-orogenic conditions (e.g., Bateman 1989). A clear problem faced in our case is that the 607 Ma age put this intrusion in a syn-collisional/ contractional regime (e.g., Brito , Weinberg et al. 2004, Ganade de Araújo et al. 2014c, Sial & Ferreira 2016 instead of in a post-orogenic stage.
Nonetheless, the presence of several metric-scale xenoliths of different host rock types, including mafic-ultramafic bodies and those that exhibit breccia structure are widespread throughout the Riacho do Icó Stock. The xenoliths present tabular, rounded to irregular shapes that may be concordant to the intrusion magmatic foliation, also presenting remnants of early deformation stages. Evidence of a mixed population of xenoliths and stepped contacts between the granite and host/wall rocks suggests a component of crustal stopping, in which the roof collapse by crustal subsidence would explain forceful magmatic injection (Glazner & Bartley 2006, Žák & Paterson 2006. In spite of local granitic sheets related to thrust tectonics verging top-to-the south that are present throughout the Alto Pajeú Terrane, from the central portion of the intrusion to its marginal zones, well-developed magmatic flux is progressively transposed by strike-slip foliation, especially in its southern margin. It has been long recognized that transcurrent shear zones might act as important sites of crust dilatation and magma percolation (Tikoff & Teysser 1994), including examples from the Borborema Province (e.g., Vauchez et al. 1995, Viegas et al. 2013, Lima et al. 2017. Also, tectonic foliation is associated to well-developed sub-to horizontal mineral and stretching lineations, which might be solely the result of stress rotation or may suggest shallow lateral magma propagation from the feeder zone   during its ascent, which is typical from laccolith-type intrusions (e.g., Petford et al. 2000, Gutiérrez et al. 2018).
In the western Borborema Province, en cornue plutons are clear indicators of shear-zone control and a direct result of synkinematic pluton emplacement (Weinberg et al. 2004). In an ideal model, this mechanism involves changes in the rheological properties of rocks adjoining shear zones, creating fragile, dilational, low-mean-pressure triple points into which ascending magmas intrude, giving rise to plutons (Cruden & Weinberg 2018). Another example of en cornue granites older than 600 Ma is the ~650 Ma Tavares Batolith of the Piancó-Alto Brígida Fold Belt , Weinberg et al. 2004. It suggests that the transcurrent regime might precede other accepted ages for lateral movements in the province (i.e. ~560 Ma, Viegas et al. 2014), but still lacks regional significance.
Based on the presented data, we suggest that hybrid mechanisms might have acted during the Riacho do Icó magma emplacement, involving forced intrusion, roof collapse and coeval shearing in a possible fossil deep-seated discontinuity that might have been triggered in a triple point from the Pernambuco and Afogados da Ingazeira Shear Systems. In such a model, crustal space would be generated between crustal stepovers and oblique shearing (Fig. 10), which has been already described in several deformed orogenic belts worldwide (Hutton 1988 and references therein). It is important to notice that the described shear system might have been associated to pull-apart tectonics to create crustal space. Such structures coincide with regional geophysical lineaments that present strong density gradients as well as magnetic susceptibility, representing a possible terrane boundary (Oliveira & Medeiros 2018).

Magma source and tectonic setting
Samples of the Riacho do Icó Stock present granitic to granodioritic compositions and the U-Pb zircon dated sample via SHRIMP methodology yielded a crystallization age of 607 ± 3 Ma, which is coeval to abundant magmatism related  to the Brasiliano Orogeny in South America (Brito Neves et al. 2014). Associated rocks present major geochemical characteristics compatible with Cordilleran magmas that crystallized as I-type granites. The presence of modal hornblende and biotite as well as the color index, support these interpretations. Flame/ film perthites observed in the studied samples are particularly well-developed in coarse-grained members, being generally interpreted as subsolidus magmatic exsolution that reflects systematic replacement reactions between Na-K and Ca-K during two-feldspar crystallization (Yuguchi & Nishiyama 2008).
The chondrite normalized trace-element spidergram shows evident enrichment of LILE and depletion of HFSE, including negative anomalies of Nb, P, and Ti. Such a pattern might be explained by Ti-rich phases controlling the partition coefficient of these elements in the source region, such as rutile, titanomagnetite, and sphene (Foley et al. 2000). REE distribution shows moderate to high fractionation, in which low contents on heavy REE may reflect the presence of garnet or amphibole in the melt residuum, whilst the lack of evident negative Eu anomalies suggest an absence of plagioclase fractionation and high oxygen fugacity (fO 2 ). In addition, the discrete Ce anomaly would reflect the incorporation of pelagic sediments and seawater in the source region (Neal and Taylor 1989).
The distribution of trace elements is compatible with magmas generated in modern-like subduction zones (Gill 1981, McMillan et al. 1989, Klemme et al. 2006. Arc-related magmas tend to result from upper mantle melting followed by fractional crystallization during emplacement in the crust (Sisson & Grove 1993). Despite that, it might only reflect the source characteristics, the interpretation of "arc-related" magmatism for the Riacho do Icó intrusion is also supported by plots on the discriminating diagram of Pearce et al. (1984).
Specific geochemical aspects of rocks from the Riacho do Icó stock, including high SiO 2 , Na 2 O, and Ni contents are commonly ascribed to plutonic and volcanic rocks derived from adakitic magmas. In their definition of adakite and related rocks, Defant & Drummond (1990) gave strong emphasis on the characteristic high Sr and low Y contents of these magmas, reflecting high Sr/Y (avg. 100) ratios, which is unusual in "normal" arc-related magmas, being a distinctive feature. This pattern is seen in samples of the Riacho do Icó Stock (Fig. 11A). Also, Martin et al. (2005) proposed that adakites might be grouped as Low-Silica (LSA) and High-Silica groups (HSA), and we suggest that our samples correspond to the latter (Fig. 11B).
Adakitic melts might be generated in a number of tectonic settings, including pristine products of slab melting during hot subduction, and consequently, upper mantle melting has a minor influence on magma generation (Castillo 2012 and references therein). In addition, distinct stages of ongoing subduction might also generate adakite-like magmas, including convergent termination (Sajona et al. 1996), collisional settings (Sajona et al. 2000), slab detachment (Gao et al. 2007), and ridge subduction (Tang et al. 2010). In addition, MgO wt%. has been used as a source marker, since this oxide is usually controlled by deep-seated phases. On the SiO 2 vs. MgO diagram proposed by Martin et al. (2005), samples from the Riacho do Icó Stock are akin to adakites formed by slab melting (Fig. 11C), which is coherent with the HSA group proposal.
The identification of pure adakites is known to be difficult and, especially in Precambrian and strongly deformed regions such as the Borborema Province, it should be taken with caution, since several processes including Assimilation-Fractional Crystallization (AFC) might lead to a wide range of rocks that present similar characteristics (Castillo 2012). However, based on the data presented herein, it is suggested that subduction stages of the Brasiliano orogeny might have involved some degree of melting of a metamorphosed basaltic slab in deep-seated regions (garnet-bearing source) during early Ediacaran convergence or an underplated arc basalt source. This assumption is reinforced by the close spatial association with the SPP Suite that record high-grade metamorphism (eclogitic facies) at 625 Ma and could mark the transition between subduction to a syn-collisional regime . Lastly, it is pointed out that our interpretations represent the first attempt to test such a petrogenetic hypothesis for granitic rocks within the Alto Pajeú Terrane and must further be tested and expanded to other stocks and batholiths.

Regional Constraints
The Brasiliano-Pan African Orogeny was the major tectonic event that built-up the South American Neoproterozoic provinces, resulting from collisional episodes between major cratonic blocks (Brito Neves et al. 2000). Crustal collage occurred in four major intervals: A B C Figure 11. Plots of samples from the Riacho do Icó Suite: (A) Sr/Y diagram with fields of adakites and "normal" calc-alkaline rocks from Defant & Drummond (1990). (B) MgO vs. SiO 2 diagram discriminating high-silica groups (has) and low-silica (LSA) from Martin et al. (2005). (C) MgO. vs. SiO 2 diagram discriminating sources for adakitic magmas with fields/data compiled from Rapp et al. (1999Rapp et al. ( , 2002  • 520-500 Ma (Brito Neves et al. 2014).
In the Borborema Province, early magmatism related to accretion tectonics is recorded in the northern subprovince, represented by the Tamboril-Santa Quitéria arc-system (Santos et al. 2008). In this orogenic complex, long-lived magmatism comprises a juvenile arc that evolved to a mature stage between ca. 880-660 Ma, followed by a final stage of crustal anatexis at ca. 615-600 Ma (Ganade de Araújo et al. 2014a).
In contrast, other domains of the Borborema Province, including the Alto Pajeú Terrane, present magmatic activity related to the Brasiliano orogeny ranging from 650 to 550 Ma (Sial 1990). Despite discrete differences on geochemical and isotopic aspects of the vast number of granites described in the central subprovince, they can be grouped as follows: • normal to high-K calc-alkaline granites dated at c. 640-600 Ma; • high-K calc-alkaline and shoshonitic granites dated at 590-580 Ma; • post-collision alkaline granites dated at c. 570 Ma; • anorogenic granites aged at c. 540-510 Ma (Guimarães et al. 2004).
A similar subdivision is presented by Sial & Ferreira (2016). Based on the geochronological determinations obtained in this study, the Riacho do Icó Stock fits with the first group and thus would be related to a final stage of the first episodes of the Brasiliano tectono-magmatic activity. Granites of this group are generally related to flat-lying foliation related to thrust tectonics due to initial plate motion (Guimarães et al. 2004, Archanjo et al. 2008. Based on the proposed emplacement model for the Riacho do Icó Stock, which is closely related to the Afogados da Ingazeira Shear System, it is possible that early strike-slip movements (and progressive transition from thrust to lateral tectonics) might have resulted from lateral escape or extrusion tectonics, that can lead to local magma percolation along major crustal discontinuities, including reactivated suture zones (e.g., Tapponnier et al. 1982). If this was the case, the Riacho do Icó Stock would be related to the continental collision of the Amazonian-West Africa Craton and the Paleoproterozoic basement of the Borborema Province, which is interpreted as a first Neoproterozoic collisional stage in the province (Ganade de Araújo et al. 2014c).
It has been proposed that a wide magmatic arc was formed in the northernmost portion of the central subprovince (Piancó Alto Brigída Terrane/Fold Belt), presenting several stages of magma generation covering early calc-alkaline granites that evolved to post-collisional magmas, i.e. from 635 to 580 Ma (Brito Neves et al. 2016). Based on our investigation and on a number of papers published on the central Borborema Province (e.g., Santos & Medeiros 1999, Guimarães et al. 2004, Lima et al. 2017, we suggest that the Riacho do Icó Stock might be part of this continental magmatic arc, that would be extended to the Alto Pajeú Terrane and that it represents a disjoint fragment of crust dislocated by transcurrent movements, which are one of the most remarkable characteristics of the Central Subprovince of the Borborema Province.

CONCLUSIONS
• The Riacho do Icó Stock corresponds to perthitic biotite-amphibole monzogranites and granodiorites that represent the largest Ediacaran plutonic exposure of the Riacho das Pedras Complex of the Alto Pajeú Terrane. It is dated at ca. 607 Ma, which represents the age of the rock crystallization. Coeval and local metamorphism is marked by ca. 600 Ma aged overgrowth zircon crystal rims; • Field evidence suggests that hybrid mechanisms took place during magmatic ascent. They include a widespread and heterogeneous population of angular xenoliths, host-rock foliation deviation, and the development of mylonitic members at the intrusion rims. We suggest that the crustal discontinuity magma flow (progressive deformation, intrusion shape and close relationship with sinistral shear zones) in a triple point generated step-overs and crustal space along the Afogados da Ingazeira System, marking local extensional sites during plate convergence. • Whole-rock geochemistry suggests that the Riacho do Icó magma was generated in a transitional setting between late orogenic and syn-collisional conditions. In addition, it is also suggested that slab melting might have been involved in the source region, despite the classical upper mantle origin suggested for classical calc-alkaline arc magmas in the central subprovince. Lastly, based on the obtained geochronological determinations, it is possible that the Riacho do Icó Stock belongs to the long-lived magmatic arc proposed in the central subprovince, representing a dismembered fragment within the Alto Pajeú Terrane.