“…These occurrences, along with the mafic-ultramafic Ponte Nova Massif in Minas Gerais and several intrusive units in Rio de Janeiro, were originally considered part of the Serra do Mar Alkaline Province (Almeida 1983, Almeida andCarneiro 1998), and later grouped with the northern sector of this province (Riccomini et al 2005). This alkaline magmatism is bimodal, hosting a variety of SiO 2 -undersaturated and -oversaturated syenite varieties and minor gabbroic rocks, accompanied by a variety of SiO 2 -undersaturated (from ultrabasic lamprophyres, pyroxenites to phonolites) to marginally -saturated (alkali basalts, microgabbros to trachytes) dykes (e.g., Ulbrich and Gomes 1981, Brotzu et al 2005, Enrich et al 2005, Azzone et al 2009.…”