Geomagnetic paleointensity and direct age determination of the ISEA (M0r?) chron

A combined paleomagnetic and geochronologic study has been conducted on an andesite lava sequence at Jianguo (Liaoning province, northeastern China). Thermal demagnetization and thermomagnetic analysis revealed that natural remanent magnetization is carried by both magnetite and hematite. Stepwise t...

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Veröffentlicht in:Earth and planetary science letters 2004-01, Vol.217 (3-4), p.285-295
Hauptverfasser: Zhu, Rixiang, Hoffman, Kenneth A, Nomade, Sébastien, Renne, Paul R, Shi, Ruiping, Pan, Yongxin, Shi, Guanghai
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Zusammenfassung:A combined paleomagnetic and geochronologic study has been conducted on an andesite lava sequence at Jianguo (Liaoning province, northeastern China). Thermal demagnetization and thermomagnetic analysis revealed that natural remanent magnetization is carried by both magnetite and hematite. Stepwise thermal demagnetization up to 675 degree C isolated well-defined reverse characteristic remanent magnetization (ChRM) in three time-independent lava flows with a mean direction of D/I=179.2 degree /-59.7 degree with alpha sub(95)=3.0 degree . It also showed that a high-temperature component (>585 degree C) has the same ChRM direction as that of the low- to medium-temperature (ca. 170/300-585 degree C) components. A modified version of the Thellier-Thellier paleointensity method [Coe, J. Geophys. Res. 72 (1967) 3247-3262] with systematic partial thermoremanent magnetization checks was used for paleointensity determinations. Twelve out of 39 samples yielded reliable results in the temperature interval of 170-550 degree C. Virtual dipole moment values range from 3.9 to 4.7x10 super(22) Am super(2) with an average of 4.2+/-0.1x10 super(22) Am super(2). super(40)Ar/ super(39)Ar age determination on one lava flow is 116.8+/-3.0 Myr (2 capital sigma error, relative to Fish Canyon sanidine: 28.02+/-0.28 Myr). The magnetic reversed polarity with well-defined age could correspond to the 'ISEA' within the older part of the Cretaceous normal superchron (CNS), but we cannot rule out the possibility that this reversal interval could also correspond to the M0r due to many ambiguities on previous published ages on ISEA and M0r intervals as well as the new monitor age correction we applied. It also suggests that a weak magnetic field nature already documented before the CNS extended at least into the very beginning of the CNS.
ISSN:0012-821X
DOI:10.1016/S0012-821X(03)00613-7