Paleomagnetism of the Pine Point Zn–Pb deposits

1993 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 1028-1036 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. T. A. Symons ◽  
Hairu Pan ◽  
D. F. Sangster ◽  
E. C. Jowett
Keyword(s):  
Late Cretaceous ◽  
Remanent Magnetization ◽  
Natural Remanent Magnetization ◽  
Pole Position ◽  
Mississippi Valley ◽  
Western Canada Sedimentary Basin ◽  
Order Of Magnitude ◽  
Mvt Deposits ◽  
Pine Point ◽  
Host Rocks

The Pine Point Zn–Pb deposits are Mississippi Valley-type (MVT) deposits in Middle Devonian dolostone of the Pine Point Formation. The median natural remanent magnetization intensity from 509 specimens from 40 sites is 3.6 × 10−5 A/m. This intensity is an order of magnitude lower than most MVT deposits and is close to the sensitivity of the cryogenic magnetometer, so only the stronger specimens could be analysed paleomagnetically. Isothermal remanent magnetization testing of ores, host rocks, and monomineralic specimens shows that single domain to pseudosingle domain magnetite in sphalerite is the main remanence carrier; magnetite in galena is the next most significant carrier. In contrast, barren dolostone, limestone, and calcite crystals have a much weaker remanence. Using less stringent criteria than is conventional, 17 acceptable site mean remanence directions were determined. Remagnetization circle data indicate that many of the poorly defined sites retain a reversed but nonisolated characteristic remanence. Of the 17 means, 8 form a coherent cluster, the A component, with a mean direction of D = 339°, I = 78° (α95 = 7°, k = 62), giving a pole position of 79°N, 197°E (α95 = 13°). The A pole indicates with > 95%confidence that the MVT ores at Pine Point are Late Cretaceous to Eocene in age, with a mid-Late Cretaceous to Paleocene age (84–58 Ma) being most likely. The dolostone host rocks were remagnetized at the same time. It is concluded that the A component, carried mainly by sphalerite and galena, was formed during the Laramide orogeny (97–58 Ma) when tectonic uplift forced Zn–Pb-rich basinal brines out of the Western Canada sedimentary basin into the Presqu'ile barrier reef on the adjacent foreland shelf.

Paleomagnetism and the Origin of Mississippi Valley-Type Ore Deposits

1974 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. W. Beales ◽  
J. C. Carracedo ◽  
D. W. Strangway
Keyword(s):  
Natural Remanent Magnetization ◽  
Ore Deposits ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mississippi Valley ◽  
Ore Formation ◽  
Lower Ordovician ◽  
Southeast Missouri ◽  
Host Rocks ◽  
Mississippi Valley Type ◽  
Valley Type

Paleomagnetism can provide useful information about the stratigraphic relationships between the host rocks and the ore of some ore deposits.Four North American mines with stratabound ore deposits of Mississippi Valley type were sampled and the direction and intensity of the natural remanent magnetization (NRM) were measured. Two of the sites sampled (Newfoundland Zinc Co. property near Daniel's Harbour in western Newfoundland and the St. Joe Minerals Co., #8 Mine in southeast Missouri) had a weak, but measurable NRM in both host and ore rocks. This magnetization proved to be highly stable upon alternating field (AF) demagnetization. The other two mines (Magmont Mine, southeast Missouri, and Pine Point Mine, Northwest Territories, Canada) had intensities of magnetization too low to be measured after demagnetization.The pole positions computed for the ores and their corresponding hosts are identical within the statistical uncertainty, strongly suggesting that the ore and the host are, geologically speaking, of roughly the same age. This study gives two reliable pole positions, one for late lower Ordovician dolostone and sphalerite ore from Newfoundland of 26 °N, 126 °E, and the other for the upper Cambrian, based on the Bonneterre dolostone and galena ore from southeast Missouri of 35 °S, 170 °W.Within the present limitations of the method the results agree with published opinions concerning the age of the ore, i.e. that host rock and ore formation were relatively close in time. Therefore, when significant time differences occur between epigenetic ores and their host rocks, the method may be expected to define this. The method will become progressively more valuable as the apparent polar wandering curves for various continental areas become better defined.

Paleomagnetism of the Keweenawan Chipman Lake and Seabrook Lake carbonatite complexes, Ontario

1992 ◽  
Vol 29 (6) ◽  
pp. 1215-1223 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. T. A. Symons
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Remanent Magnetization ◽  
Pole Position ◽  
Alteration Zone ◽  
Contact Aureole ◽  
Isothermal Remanent Magnetization ◽  
Abitibi Subprovince ◽  
Normal Polarity ◽  
Reversed Polarity ◽  
Host Rocks

The Chipman Lake complex crops out as a series of carbonatite and related alkalic mafic dikes in the Wabigoon Subprovince of the Superior Province, whereas the Seabrook Lake complex crops out as an alkalic syenite – carbonatite stock in the Abitibi Subprovince. Paleomagnetic analysis was done on specimens from 23 and 19 sites located in and around the Chipman Lake and Seabrook Lake complexes, respectively, using detailed alternating-field and thermal step demagnetization and isothermal remanent magnetization tests. Contact tests with adjacent Archean host rocks show that both complexes retain a primary characteristic remanence (ChRM). The Chipman Lake's ChRM is retained in 11 dikes with normal polarity and one dike with reversed polarity and at one site with normal polarity and one site with reversed polarity from the fenite alteration zone. Its ChRM gives a pole position at 186°E, 38°N (dp = 7°, dm = 11°), which corresponds to a Keweenawan age of 1098 ± 10 Ma, suggesting that younger K–Ar amphibole ages do not date emplacement. The ChRM of the host rock, the Chipman Lake diorite stock, gives a pole at 49°E, 51°N (dp = 8°, dm = 13°), showing that it is not part of the Keweenawan complex but may be a 2.45 Ga Matachewan intrusive. The Seabrook Lake complex's ChRM is found at six normal polarity sites from within the complex and at four normal and three reversed polarity sites from within the fenitized Archean granite and Matachewan diabase of the contact aureole. It gives a pole position at 180°E, 46°N (dp = 11°, dm = 17°), which corresponds to a Keweenawan age of 1103 ± 10 Ma, agreeing with K/Ar biotite ages. The paleomagnetic data indicate that no significant motion on the Kapuskasing Structural Zone occurred after emplacement of the complexes excluding minor vertical uplift of less than about 4 km, and that there were multiple polarity transitions of a symmetric Earth's magnetic field during Keweenawan time.

Relative palaeointensity and reservoir effect on Lake Esmeralda, Antarctica

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 356-368 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.A. Irurzun ◽  
M.A.E. Chaparro ◽  
A.M. Sinito ◽  
C.S.G. Gogorza ◽  
H. Nuñez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mass Spectrometry ◽  
Remanent Magnetization ◽  
Necessary Conditions ◽  
Organic Matter Content ◽  
Natural Remanent Magnetization ◽  
Matter Content ◽  
Global Models ◽  
Reservoir Effect ◽  
Order Of Magnitude ◽  
Rock Magnetics

AbstractFour cores from the bottom sediments of Lake Esmeralda, Vega Island, Antarctica (60°48'S, 57°37'W) were studied. Analysis of rock magnetics indicates that the main carriers of magnetization are ferrimagnetic minerals, predominantly pseudo-single-domain (titano-) magnetite with a small proportion of paramagnetic and antiferromagnetic minerals. The magnetic grain size of the samples is in the range of 1–5 μm and the variation of the interparametric ratios is less than one order of magnitude. Demagnetization of the natural remanent magnetization shows a stable remanent magnetization in most of the samples. Thus, the samples fulfil the necessary conditions to calculate relative palaeointensity (RPI) and the curves obtained correlated with global models enabling dating of the cores. The 250 cm of sediment recovered spans the last 10 200 yr bp. Finally, some samples with high organic matter content were dated by accelerator mass spectrometry 14C. By comparison with the age defined by the RPI curves, a reservoir effect of c. 5200 years is suggested for this region of Vega Island.

Mineralization of the South Pennine Orefield, UK—A Review

2016 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
T.D. Ford ◽  
N.E. Worley
Keyword(s):  
Wall Rock ◽  
Hydraulic Gradient ◽  
Mississippi Valley ◽  
The South ◽  
The North ◽  
East Midlands ◽  
Ore Minerals ◽  
Placer Deposits ◽  
Fractured Limestone ◽  
Host Rocks

This review of the South Pennine Orefield (SPO) draws together the findings from many years of underground field observations and petrographical study. Mineralization is of the Mississippi Valley-type (MVT) and is concentrated within an area of some 200 km2, mainly along the eastern margins of a large inlier, the Derbyshire High, in Carboniferous platform carbonate host rocks. The inlier covers some 390 km2, forms an up-dip promontory of a larger structure, the East Midlands Shelf, and is surrounded by shales and sandstones of the Millstone Grit and Pennine Coal Measures groups. Mineralization probably began during the late Westphalian (Moscovian, Mid Pennsylvanian), when subsidence due to thermal sag resulted in the limestone being buried to depths of c. 4 km beneath younger strata. A palaeohydraulic reconstruction is presented from analysis of mineralized palaeokarst features, which are interpreted as representing hypogenic or deep-seated karst formed by the interstratal circulation of hydrothermal water in a mostly confined hydrodynamic setting. It is reasoned that Variscan inversion of N–S faults to the east of the SPO resulted in erosion of Namurian and Westphalian (Upper Mississippian–Middle Pennsylvanian) rocks and created a hydraulic gradient inclined towards the south-west. Acidic F-Ba-Pb-Zn enriched fluid evolved in the Namurian basinal rocks and migrated into fractured limestone. The resultant wall-rock dissolution along existing wrench faults led to the formation of a maze of stratiform mineral deposits (flats) and more irregular spongework-shaped structures (pipes). The presence of hydrocarbon accumulations in the limestones and evidence from fluid inclusions indicates that the mineralizing fluids were chloride/fluoride-rich and compositionally typical of oilfield brine. Isotope evidence demonstrates a sulphate evaporite source of sulphur, mainly from the Chadian (Visean, Middle Mississippian) Middleton Anhydrite Formation. By the late Cenozoic, karstification of exposed carbonate rocks began and the current pattern of epigenic karst drainage started to develop as the regional hydraulic gradient reversed, assuming its present eastward inclined attitude. The mineralized hypogenic karst was overprinted by later drainage systems as the hydraulic gradient changed, and placer deposits were formed from the erosion of existing mineralization. This was accompanied by circulation of meteoric water and resulted in the supergene weathering of the sulphide ore minerals. Eastward underflow of meteoric groundwater also exploited the same mineralization flow paths. There is evidence that pre-mineralization hypogenic karst was also significant in the formation of orebodies in the North Pennine Orefield and the Halkyn–Minera Orefield of NE Wales.

scholarly journals Paleomagnetic secular variation for a 21,000-year sediment sequence from Cascade Lake, north-central Brooks Range, Arctic Alaska

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas P. Steen ◽  
Joseph S. Stoner ◽  
Jason P. Briner ◽  
Darrell S. Kaufman
Keyword(s):  
Secular Variation ◽  
Remanent Magnetization ◽  
Sediment Cores ◽  
Natural Remanent Magnetization ◽  
Companion Paper ◽  
Angular Deviation ◽  
Arctic Alaska ◽  
Geomagnetic Field Models ◽  
Paleomagnetic Secular Variation ◽  
Radiometric Ages

Abstract. Two > 5-m-long sediment cores from Cascade Lake (68.38° N, 154.60° W), Arctic Alaska, were analyzed to quantify their paleomagnetic properties over the past 21,000 years. Alternating-field demagnetization of the natural remanent magnetization, anhysteretic remanent magnetization, isothermal remanent magnetization, and hysteresis experiments reveal a strong, well-defined characteristic remanent magnetization carried by a low coercivity magnetic component that increases up core. Maximum angular deviation values average < 2°, and average inclination values are within 4° of the geocentric axial dipole prediction. Radiometric ages based on 210Pb and 14C were used to correlate the major inclination features of the resulting paleomagnetic secular variation (PSV) record with those of other regional PSV records, including two geomagnetic field models and the longer series from Burial Lake, located 200 km to the west. Following around 6 ka (cal BP), the ages of PSV fluctuations in Cascade Lake begin to diverge from those of the regional records, reaching a maximum offset of about 2000 years at around 4 ka. Several correlated cryptotephra ages from this section (reported in a companion paper by Davies et al., this volume) support the regional PSV-based chronology and indicate that some of the 14C ages at Cascade Lake are variably too old.

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