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Rock magnetism and magnetic anisotropy in folded sills and basaltic flows: A case study of volcanics from the Taimyr Peninsula, Northern Russia

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Magnetic measurements were performed on apparently deformed igneous rocks of 23 sites from the southeastern part of the Taimyr Peninsula. Rock magnetism and reflected light microscopy analyses reveal that fine-grained titanomagnetites up to pure magnetites mainly carry the majority of magnetic fabrics in the sills, and that the slightly coarser Ti-poor or-medium titanomagnetites carry most magnetic fabrics in the basaltic flows. Magnetic anisotropies were determined by applying anisotropy of low-field magnetic susceptibility (AMS) on 180 unheated samples and 128 samples that had been previously heated to 600°C during a paleomagnetic study to detect heating effects on the anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS) properties of volcanic rocks. Laboratory heating significantly affects anisotropy variations of these igneous rocks corresponding to the mineralogical changes during the heat treatment.

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  1. College of Computer Engineering and Software, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, 030024, China

    ShuWei Zhang

  2. Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bergen, Allègaten 41, 5007, Bergen, Norway

    ShuWei Zhang & J. Harald Walderhaug

  3. State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, 100083, China

    ShuWei Zhang

  4. Department of Applied Physics, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, 030024, China

    YueJun Yang

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Supported by the Norwegian Research Council as a grant to HJW, Norwegian State Education Loan Fund (Register No. 1921471), SWEDARP and EUROPROBE

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Zhang, S., Walderhaug, J.H. & Yang, Y. Rock magnetism and magnetic anisotropy in folded sills and basaltic flows: A case study of volcanics from the Taimyr Peninsula, Northern Russia. Chin. Sci. Bull. 53, 759–767 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11434-008-0069-z

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