Paleomagnetism of Ordovician alkalic intrusives and host rocks from the Pedernal Hills, New Mexico: positive contact test in remagnetized rocks?
dc.contributor.author | Jackson, Michael C. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Van Der Voo, Rob | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Geissman, John W. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-04-07T20:21:28Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-04-07T20:21:28Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1988-04-01 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Jackson, Mike, Van Der Voo, Rob, Geissman, John W. (1988/04/01)."Paleomagnetism of Ordovician alkalic intrusives and host rocks from the Pedernal Hills, New Mexico: positive contact test in remagnetized rocks?." Tectonophysics 147(3-4): 313-323. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/27358> | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6V72-48BDNGD-NM/2/18a4847aa708b56408e159a3d4fb85e6 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/27358 | |
dc.description.abstract | A set of thin dikes from central New Mexico, dated at 469 +/- 7 Ma (Rb-Sr; Loring and Armstrong, 1980), have yielded a virtual geomagnetic pole which lies on the Late Paleozoic segment of the North American apparent polar wander path. The remanence of the dikes appears to be a product of Late Paleozoic hydrothermal alteration. Paradoxically, however, the magnetization of the host rocks is most simply explained in terms of a positive contact test. Samples collected between 0.2 and 0.5 dike-widths from the contact contain a component of remanence parallel to the magnetization in the dikes, with unblocking temperatures which decrease with distance from the dikes. Host rocks from a distance of more than 1 dike-width show no evidence of the characteristic dike magnetization.There are two possible resolutions of this paradox: 1. (1) the magnetization of the host rocks is secondary, despite the apparent positive contact test, and is a product of hydrothermal fluid migration through the dikes or along the contact zones; or2. (2) the magnetization of the dikes is primary, but not representative of the Ordovician paleofield for North America.Possible reasons for inaccurate representation include: 1. (a) incomplete averaging of secular variation;2. (b) tectonic rotation with respect to the stable craton; or3. (c) erroneous age determination for the rocks.We argue that explanation (1) is the most likely. | en_US |
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dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_US |
dc.title | Paleomagnetism of Ordovician alkalic intrusives and host rocks from the Pedernal Hills, New Mexico: positive contact test in remagnetized rocks? | 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, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1063, U.S.A. | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Department of Geological Sciences, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1063, U.S.A. | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Department of Geology, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, U.S.A. | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/27358/1/0000383.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0040-1951(88)90192-8 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Tectonophysics | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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