Petrological Studies in Parts of the Closepet Granite Pluton, Mysore State

With the object of investigating the mode of origin of the Closepet granite, Mysore state, India, integrated geological, geochemical and geophysical studies have been made of the northern part of the pluton as also the adjacent Chitaldurg and Hosdurga granites and Penmsular gneiss. The Joints (post-emplacement'l) in the Closepet granite and the ratios of mineral pairs indicate that (i) the grey and the pink varieties of the Closepet granite and the Chitaldurg granite are comparable to many respects and might have had a common mode of origin, (ii) the Hosdurga granite is distinguishable from the above granites in having a lower amount of quartz and K-feldspar and higher amounts of plagioclase and mafics and (iii) the Peninsular gneiss markedly differs from the Closepet and Chitaidurg granites, and departs from them in the same direction as the Hosdurga granite but in a more accentuated way. A two-stage model for the origin of the Closepet granite is supported by the following petrological evidence presence of two generations of quartz, unzoned anhedral plagioclase, replacement of plagioclase by microcline and the presence of perthite and myrmekite along With K-feldspar and quartz. The Closepet granite was apparently formed by palingenesis (starting from the Peninsular  gneiss) and metasomatism involving enrichment in Si, K and Na, among other elements.