A LATE DIAGENETIC (SYN-FOLDING) MAGNETIZATION CARRIED BY PYRRHOTITE: IMPLICATIONS FOR PALEOMAGNETIC STUDIES FROM MAGNETIC IRON SULPHIDE-BEARING SEDIMENTS

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dc.contributor.author Weaver R.
dc.contributor.author Roberts A.P.
dc.contributor.author Barker A.J.
dc.date.accessioned 2021-04-19T00:19:54Z
dc.date.available 2021-04-19T00:19:54Z
dc.date.issued 2002
dc.identifier https://www.elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=1088281
dc.identifier.citation Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2002, 200, 3-4, 371-386
dc.identifier.issn 0012-821X
dc.identifier.uri https://repository.geologyscience.ru/handle/123456789/28017
dc.description.abstract Paleomagnetic, rock magnetic, and sedimentary micro-textural data from an early Miocene mudstone sequence exposed in Okhta River, Sakhalin, Russia, indicate the presence of pyrrhotite and magnetite at different stratigraphic levels. Sites that contain only magnetite have a reversed polarity characteristic remanent magnetization (ChRM) with a low-coercivity overprint, which coincides with the present-day geomagnetic field direction. Pyrrhotite-bearing sites have stable normal polarity ChRMs that are significantly different from the present-day field direction. After correction for bedding tilt, the ChRM data fail a reversals test. However, the normal polarity pyrrhotite ChRM directions become antipodal to the tilt-corrected magnetite ChRM directions and are consistent with the expected geocentric axial dipole field direction at the site latitude after 40% partial unfolding. These data suggest that the pyrrhotite magnetization was acquired during folding and after lock-in of the magnetite remanences. Electron microscope observations of polished sections indicate that fluid-associated halos surround iron sulphide nodules. Pyrrhotite is present in randomly oriented laths in and around the nodules, and the nodules do not appear to have been deformed by sediment compaction. This observation is consistent with a late diagenetic origin of pyrrhotite. Documentation of a late diagenetic magnetization in pyrrhotite-bearing sediments here, and in recent studies of greigite-bearing sediments, suggests that care should be taken to preclude a late origin of magnetic iron sulphides before using such sediments for geomagnetic studies where it is usually crucial to establish a syn-depositional magnetization.
dc.subject DIAGENESIS
dc.subject GREIGITE
dc.subject MAGNETITE
dc.subject PYRRHOTITE
dc.subject SAKHALIN RUSSIAN FEDERATION
dc.subject MAGNETIZATION
dc.subject Miocene
dc.title A LATE DIAGENETIC (SYN-FOLDING) MAGNETIZATION CARRIED BY PYRRHOTITE: IMPLICATIONS FOR PALEOMAGNETIC STUDIES FROM MAGNETIC IRON SULPHIDE-BEARING SEDIMENTS
dc.type Статья
dc.subject.age Cenozoic::Neogene::Miocene
dc.subject.age Кайнозой::Неоген::Миоцен ru


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