scholarly journals Paleomagnetic and Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility (AMS) analyses of the Plio-Pleistocene extensional Todi basin, Central Italy

1997 ◽  
Vol 40 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Alfonsi
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Susceptibility ◽  
Central Italy ◽  
Vertical Axis ◽  
Anisotropy Of Magnetic Susceptibility ◽  
Central Apennines ◽  
Homogeneous Process ◽  
Lower Pleistocene ◽  
Tectonic Framework ◽  
Axis Rotation ◽  
Apennine Chain

In the last few years paleomagnetic investigations within the Apennine chain have revealed that the area is characterized by a complex pattern of deformation, not linkable to a simple and homogeneous process. In order to estimate the amount, sense and timing of vertical axis rotations within the Central Apennines, Neogene continental basins have been investigated for paleomagnetic studies. The paleomagnetic results obtained in the Plio-Pleistocene Todi basin showed that the Upper Pliocene-Lower Pleistocene evolution, associated with major dip-slip tectonics, has not involved vertical axis rotation since that time. The Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility analysis (AMS), carried out on the same samples treated for paleomagnetic determination, revealed the presence of two groups of specimens characterized by different magnetic lineation directions. One direction trends NE-SW and is parallel to the orientation of the regional extension stress typical of the area. This direction is observed throughout the northern basin. The other, restricted to the southern basin, trends N-S and shows no links with the tectonic, hydrological-sedimentary conditions of the area. The results of the AMS analysis will be presented and discussed in the light of the rock magnetic results and the tectonic framework of the area.

Constraining the onset of the Holocene “Neoglacial” over the central Italy using tephra layers

2012 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
pp. 236-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanni Zanchetta ◽  
Carlo Giraudi ◽  
Roberto Sulpizio ◽  
Michel Magny ◽  
Russell N. Drysdale ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Central Italy ◽  
Climatic Changes ◽  
Common Method ◽  
Chemical Analyses ◽  
High Mountains ◽  
Central Apennines ◽  
The Holocene ◽  
Tephra Layers ◽  
Apennine Chain

AbstractA study of six tephra layers discovered in different deposits between 1600 and 2700 m a.s.l. in the Apennine chain in central Italy allowed precise stratigraphic constraints on environmental and climatic changes between ca. 4.5 and 3.8 cal ka BP. Chemical analyses allowed the correlation of these tephra layers with the eruptions of Agnano Mt Spina (AMST) from Phlegrean Field and Avellino (AVT) from Somma–Vesuvius. Major environmental changes in the high mountains of the Central Apennines occurred just after the deposition of the AMST and predate the deposition of the AVT. At this time, renewed growth of the Calderone Glacier occurred, marking the onset of the Apennine “Neoglacial”. The presence of the AMST and AVT enabled us to make a precise, physical correlation with other archives in central Italy. Synchronization of records between sites showed that the period intervening the deposition of the AMST and AVT layers coincided with environmental changes that were not always exactly in phase. This highlights the fact that stratigraphic correlations using only radiocarbon chronologies (the most common method used for dating archives during the Holocene) could produce erroneous correlation of events, giving rise to oversimplified paleoclimatic reconstructions.

scholarly journals Anisotropies of anhysteretic remanence and magnetic susceptibility of marly clays from Central Italy

1994 ◽  
Vol 37 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Winkler ◽  
L. Sagnotti
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Susceptibility ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Central Italy ◽  
Anisotropy Of Magnetic Susceptibility ◽  
Statistical Procedure ◽  
Laboratory Technique ◽  
Rock Fabric ◽  
Geological Processes ◽  
Strain Relationship ◽  
First Time

Marly clays from an Upper Pliocene unit at Valle Ricca (Rorne) were investigated for their Anisotropy of Anhysteretic Remanence (AAR) and Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility (AMS). The study of AAR was accomplished for the first time in ltaly, developing a suitable laboratory technique and adapting a standard statistical procedure. The comparison between anhysteretic remanence and magnetic susceptibility anisotropies discriminates the fabric of the ferromagnetic fraction from that of the paramagnetic matrix of the rock. The separation of fabric components was applied to distinguish subsequent geological processes that affected the total rock fabric. The results indicate that the clayey units are particularly suitable for the empirical investigation of fabric to strain relationship in weakly deformed rocks.

Zircon geochronology and paleomagnetism of an Archean harzburgite intrusion, eastern Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming

2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-40
Author(s):  
Alexandra Wallenberg ◽  
Michelle Dafov ◽  
David Malone ◽  
John Craddock
Keyword(s):  
Hanging Wall ◽  
Vertical Axis ◽  
Shear Zones ◽  
Strike Slip ◽  
Zircon Geochronology ◽  
Weighted Mean ◽  
Mafic Complex ◽  
Laramide Orogeny ◽  
Axis Rotation ◽  
Bighorn Mountains

A harzburgite intrusion, which is part of the trailside mafic complex) intrudes ~2900-2950 Ma gneisses in the hanging wall of the Laramide Bighorn uplift west of Buffalo, Wyoming. The harzburgite is composed of pristine orthopyroxene (bronzite), clinopyroxene, serpentine after olivine and accessory magnetite-serpentinite seams, and strike-slip striated shear zones. The harzburgite is crosscut by a hydrothermally altered wehrlite dike (N20°E, 90°, 1 meter wide) with no zircons recovered. Zircons from the harzburgite reveal two ages: 1) a younger set that has a concordia upper intercept age of 2908±6 Ma and a weighted mean age of 2909.5±6.1 Ma; and 2) an older set that has a concordia upper intercept age of 2934.1±8.9 Ma and a weighted mean age 2940.5±5.8 Ma. Anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS) was used as a proxy for magmatic intrusion and the harzburgite preserves a sub-horizontal Kmax fabric (n=18) suggesting lateral intrusion. Alternating Field (AF) demagnetization for the harzburgite yielded a paleopole of 177.7 longitude, -14.4 latitude. The AF paleopole for the wehrlite dike has a vertical (90°) inclination suggesting intrusion at high latitude. The wehrlite dike preserves a Kmax fabric (n=19) that plots along the great circle of the dike and is difficult to interpret. The harzburgite has a two-component magnetization preserved that indicates a younger Cretaceous chemical overprint that may indicate a 90° clockwise vertical axis rotation of the Clear Creek thrust hanging wall, a range-bounding east-directed thrust fault that accommodated uplift of Bighorn Mountains during the Eocene Laramide Orogeny.

Three-Dimensional Computation during Off-Vertical Axis Rotation (OVAR) in Monkeys

2006 ◽  
Vol 65 (6) ◽  
pp. 429-439 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keisuke Kushiro ◽  
Jun Maruta
Keyword(s):  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Vertical Axis ◽  
Axis Rotation

Variations in magnetic properties of Mexican serpentinites and related micro-textures 

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra B. Ramírez-García ◽  
Luis M. Alva-Valdivia
Keyword(s):  
Grain Size ◽  
Magnetic Properties ◽  
Magnetic Susceptibility ◽  
Anisotropy Of Magnetic Susceptibility ◽  
Ultramafic Rocks ◽  
Magnetic Carrier ◽  
Temperature Dependent ◽  
Geochemical Studies ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Magnetite Formation

<p>Magnetite formation of serpentinized ultramafic rocks leads to variations in the magnetic properties of serpentinites; however, magnetite precipitation is still on debate.</p><p>In this work, we analyzed 60 cores of ultramafic rocks with a variety of serpentinization degrees. These rocks belong to the ultramafic-mafic San Juan de Otates complex in Guanajuato, Mexico. Geochemical studies have been previously conducted, enabling us to compare changes in the magnetic properties against the chemical variations generated by the serpentinization process. By studying the density and magnetic properties such as anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility, hysteresis curves as well as magnetic and temperature-dependent susceptibility and, we were able to identify the relationship between magnetic content and serpentinization degree, the predominant magnetic carrier, and to what extent the magnetite grain size depends on the serpentinization.  Variations in these parameters allowed us to better constrain the temperature at which serpentinization occurred, the generation of other Fe-rich phases such as Fe-brucite and/or Fe-rich serpentine as well as distinctive rock textures formed at different serpentinization degrees.</p>

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