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Chemical remanent magnetization in oceanic sheeted dikes
Author(s) -
Worm HorstUlrich,
Bach Wolfgang
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
geophysical research letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.007
H-Index - 273
eISSN - 1944-8007
pISSN - 0094-8276
DOI - 10.1029/96gl00771
Subject(s) - natural remanent magnetization , geology , dike , remanence , oceanic crust , rock magnetism , thermoremanent magnetization , magnetization , magnetic anomaly , geophysics , magnetite , geochemistry , seismology , magnetic field , paleontology , subduction , physics , tectonics , quantum mechanics
Marine lineated magnetic anomalies often exhibit anomalous skewness that indicates non‐vertical boundaries between normally and reversely magnetized crust. The acquisition of secondary magnetization components well after formation of the crust has been suspected as one possible cause for anomalous skewness. A petrographic and rock magnetic study on sheeted dikes recovered from the lower part of the deepest drill hole in the oceanic crust, ODP (Ocean Drilling Program) Hole 504B, demonstrates that these rocks carry a secondary chemical remanent magnetization (CRM) and not a thermoremanent magnetization (TRM). Primary titanomagnetites have mostly been altered to non‐magnetic phases while the remanent magnetization resides in secondary magnetite that formed below its Curie temperature (∼600°C at ambient pressure) mainly by the alteration of olivine. The natural remanent magnetization (NRM) has been compared with laboratory anhysteretic remanent magnetization (ARM) and TRM. The intensities relate NRM < ARM < TRM, each by a factor of ≈ two. Because previous studies have shown that CRMs are much lower in intensity than TRMs and because of the common presence of secondary magnetite we conclude that the NRMs of the lower Hole 504B dikes are CRMs. The dikes exhibit the same reversed magnetization as the overlying extrusive basalts, and, thus, the timing of CRM acquisition is most likely confined to the time span between the crustal age of Hole 504B and the next younger field reversal, i.e. 0.25 m.y. after emplacement.

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