Abstract (eng)
This study focuses on petrographically and geochemically investigations of porphyritic, subvolcanic dyke rocks in the Kautzen and Litschau area, northern Lower Austria, South Bohemian Massif. The subvertical dykes strike preferentially NNW-SSE and intruded Variscan granites and Prevariscan paragneisses. The subvolcanic dykes are geochemically heterogeneous and can be divided into three distinct groups: (1) Leucocratic rhyolithes, (2) trachydacites and dacites with intense reddish to greenish colour and (3) reddish to greyish trachydacites with centimetre-sized, idiomorphic K-feldspars. All these dyke rocks are peraluminous, altered and represent the youngest magmatic activity in that area. The leucocratic rhyolithes of group 1 display a distinct acidic bulk composition and trace element geochemistry and indicate highly fractioned rocks. They might have been derived from modified partial melts of a metasedimentary material, which initially gave rise to the formation of the Eisgarn type granite. The trachydacites and dacites of group 2 lack any geochemical specialization and show no negative europium-anomaly. They contain dark green mafic inclusions. It is assumed that the origin of these trachydacites and dacites is caused by magma mingling of mantle source and leucocratic melts. Trachydacites of group 3 contain centimetre-sized, idiomorphic K-feldspar and are characterized by very high contents of barium, strontium and rare-earth-elements. They show no negative europium-anomaly and contain mafic inclusions and inverse zoned plagioclases. It is likely that these trachydacites are products of enriched mantle melts contaminated with leucogranitic melts. The intrusion of the dyke rocks is related to a late-Variscan extension of the Variscan orogen