Paleomagnetism of the western Cape Fold belt, South Africa, and its bearing on the Paleozoic apparent polar wander path for Gondwana
dc.contributor.author | Bachtadse, Valerian | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Van der Voo, Rob | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Halbich, Ingo W. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-04-07T19:50:28Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-04-07T19:50:28Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1987-08 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Bachtadse, Valerian, Van der Voo, Rob, Halbich, Ingo W. (1987/08)."Paleomagnetism of the western Cape Fold belt, South Africa, and its bearing on the Paleozoic apparent polar wander path for Gondwana." Earth and Planetary Science Letters 84(4): 487-499. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/26629> | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6V61-472CFY9-CB/2/01533410f7d39c321d49635183d530cc | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/26629 | |
dc.description.abstract | In order to test two different proposals for the poorly defined African Paleozoic apparent polar wander path (APWP), a paleomagnetic study was carried out on Ordovician through Carboniferous clastic sediments from the Cape Fold belt, west of the 22nd meridian. One proposal involves a relatively simple APWP connecting the Ordovician Gondwana poles in North Africa with the Late Paleozoic poles to the east of South Africa in a more or less straight line crossing the present equator in the Devonian. The other proposal adds a loop to this path, connecting Ordovician poles in North Africa with poles to the southwest of South Africa and then returning to central Africa. This loop would occur mainly in Silurian time. New results reported herein yield paleopoles in northern and central Africa for Ordovician to lowermost Silurian and Lower to Middle Devonian formations. The best determined paleopole of our study is for the Early Ordovician Graafwater Formation and falls at 28[deg]N, 14[deg]E (k = 25, [alpha]95 = 8.8[deg], N = 28 samples). The other paleopoles are not based on sufficient numbers of samples, but can help to constrain the apparent polar wander path for Gondwana. Our results give only paleopoles well to the north of South Africa and we observe no directions within the proposed loop. Hence, if the loop is real, it must have been of relatively short duration (60-70 Ma) and be essentially of Silurian/Early Devonian age, implying very high drift velocities for Gondwana (with respect to the pole) during that interval. | en_US |
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dc.format.mimetype | text/plain | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_US |
dc.title | Paleomagnetism of the western Cape Fold belt, South Africa, and its bearing on the Paleozoic apparent polar wander path for Gondwana | 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 48109-1063, U.S.A. | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Department of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1063, U.S.A. | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Department of Geology, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, 7600, South Africa | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/26629/1/0000170.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0012-821X(87)90013-6 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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