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Paleomagnetism of the Silurian and Devonian Thicknesses of Southern and Central Tuva

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Abstract—The paper presents the results of paleomagnetic studies of the Silurian and Devonian strata of Tuva. The paleomagnetic pole for the Silurian strata is characterized by Φ = 5°, Λ = 147°, А95 = 4.8°, n = 57. The paleomagnetic pole for the Middle Devonian rocks is characterized by Λ = –14°, Φ = 103°, А95 = 6.7°, n = 63. Rocks of some Middle Devonian sections have anomalous declination of magnetization. It is assumed that these strata were rotated relative to Siberia as a result of shear movements in Tuva in the Late Devonian. The strata of the lower and upper parts of the Upper Devonian accumulated at different paleolatitudes. The paleomagnetic pole for the lower part of the Late Devonian section is Φ = 4°, Λ = 139°, А95 = 9.3°, n = 37, for the upper part of the Late Devonian section—Φ = 48°, Λ = 135°, А95 = 14°, n = 33. Generalization of paleomagnetic data for Tuva and Mongolia showed that the curves of latitudinal displacement of Siberia, Tuva, and northern Mongolia differ insignificantly and, possibly, these geological blocks, starting from the Ordovician, moved as a single geological body. South of the Mongol-Okhotsk suture to the west of the 107° meridian, the paleolatitudes of the formation of the Late Carboniferous-Permian strata are close to the ‘Siberian’ ones, and to the east of the meridian—to the North Chinese ones. The wide variations in the declination of the magnetization of sequences located south of the Mongol-Okhotsk suture could possibly be associated with strike-slip displacements that were active in southern Mongolia during different periods of the Late Phanerozoic. The regions of Tuva and Mongolia differ sharply in the set of components of the natural remanent magnetization of Phanerozoic rocks. Permian remagnetization of rocks by a magnetic field of reversed polarity is widespread in Mongolia. In Tuva, the Permian remagnetization is practically not detected, but a wide distribution of randomly directed secondary magnetization has been established.

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Kovalenko, D.V. Paleomagnetism of the Silurian and Devonian Thicknesses of Southern and Central Tuva. Izv., Phys. Solid Earth 58, 782–814 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1069351322060076

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