Paleomagnetism of the latest Precambrian/Cambrian Unicoi basalts from the Blue Ridge, northeast Tennessee and southwest Virginia: evidence for Taconic deformation
dc.contributor.author | Brown, Peter M. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Van der Voo, Rob | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-04-07T17:48:04Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-04-07T17:48:04Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1982-10 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Brown, Peter M., Van der Voo, Rob (1982/10)."Paleomagnetism of the latest Precambrian/Cambrian Unicoi basalts from the Blue Ridge, northeast Tennessee and southwest Virginia: evidence for Taconic deformation." Earth and Planetary Science Letters 60(3): 407-414. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/23858> | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6V61-472CFDV-42/2/fb79cfabcf072911770444b698e694d2 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/23858 | |
dc.description.abstract | Three components of magnetization have been observed in ninety-six samples (twelve sites) of amygdaloidal basalts and "sedimentary greenstones" of the Unicoi Formation in the Blue Ridge Province of northeast Tennessee and southwest Virginia. These components could be isolated by alternating field as well as thermal demagnetization. One component, with a direction close to that of the present-day geomagnetic field is ascribed to recent viscous remanent magnetizations; another component, with intermediate blocking temperatures and coercivities, gives a mean direction of D = 132[deg], I = +43[deg], [alpha]95 = 9[deg] for N = 10 sites before correction for tilt of the strata. This direction and the corresponding pole position are close to Ordovician/Silurian data from the North American craton and we infer this magnetization to be due to a thermal(?) remagnetization during or after the Taconic orogeny. This magnetization is of post-folding origin, which indicates that the Blue Ridge in our area was structurally affected by the Taconic deformation. The third component, with the highest blocking temperatures and coercivities, appears to reside in hematite. Its mean direction, D = 276[deg], I = -17[deg], [alpha]95 = 13.8[deg] for N = 6 sites (after tilt correction) corresponds to a pole close to Latest Precambrian and Cambrian poles for North America. The fold test is inconclusive for this magnetization at the 95% confidence level because of the near-coincidence of the strike and the declinations. We infer this direction to be due to early high-temperature oxidation of the basalts, and argue that its magnetization may have survived the later thermal events because of its intrinsic high blocking temperatures. A detailed examination of the paleomagnetic directions from this study reveals that the Blue Ridge in this area may have undergone a small counterclockwise rotation of about 15[deg]. | en_US |
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dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.format.mimetype | text/plain | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_US |
dc.title | Paleomagnetism of the latest Precambrian/Cambrian Unicoi basalts from the Blue Ridge, northeast Tennessee and southwest Virginia: evidence for Taconic deformation | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.rights.robots | IndexNoFollow | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Geology and Earth Sciences | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Science | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Department of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, U.S.A. | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Department of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, U.S.A. | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/23858/1/0000097.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0012-821X(82)90076-0 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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