Estudo dos fluidos associados com a epissienitiza？？o de granitos biotíticos do Gerês e da Guarda (Portugal)

in granites, particularly from gerês and guarda regions, occur reddish altered rocks, commonly known as “episyenites”. these rocks resulted from a hydrothermal alteration process and involved alkali metasomatism, magmatic quartz dissolution and transformation of the primary minerals present in granites. the hydrothermal fluids, directly associated with the episyenitization process, were trapped in quartz microfractures - fluid inclusion planes (fip), consistent with the most important directions of altered structures. these fluids are low-salinity aqueous fluids from the h2o-nacl system and homogenization temperatures lower than 300 oc. they have an alkaline character, possibly with a meteoric origin and circulated to a depth lower than 5 km during the final events of the hercynian orogeny.