Paleomagnetic study on orogenic belt:An example from Early Cretaceous volcanic rocks,Inner Mongolia,China
Paleomagnetic study on orogenic belt:An example from Early Cretaceous volcanic rocks,Inner Mongolia,China作者机构:1. Strategic Research Center for Oil and Natural Gas The Ministry of Land and Resources of China 100034 Beijing China 2. Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Geology and Geophysics 100029 Beijing China
出 版 物:《Science China Earth Sciences》 (中国科学(地球科学英文版))
年 卷 期:2004年第47卷第12期
页 面:1127-1133页
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学科分类:070903[理学-古生物学与地层学(含:古人类学)] 0709[理学-地质学] 07[理学]
基 金:Acknowledgements This work was supported by the Chinese Acad-
主 题:orogenic belt, paleomagnetism, Suhongtu of Inner Mongolia, Eurasia.
摘 要:We report paleomagnetic results for Early Cretaceous lava flows collected from the Suhongtu area of Inner Mongolia, the middle part of the Tianshan-Mongolia Fold Belt (TMFB). Rock-magnetic experiments for different lava flows indicate that the main magnetic mineral is pseudo-single-domain (PSD) magnetite. The characteristic high-temperature remanence com- ponent is isolated by thermal demagnetization temperature steps between 300°C and 585C, which yields a mean direction of D = 23.6°, I=56.0° with α 95 = 2.3°. We interpret this high-temperature remanence component as primary magnetization based mainly upon the petrographic analysis, which shows that the shape of magnetite crystal is relatively rounded square or polygon without internal reflection and deuterogenous phenomenon. The correspond- ing pole of the high-temperature remanence component is at 71.1°N, 200.5°E with A 95 = 2.7°. This Early Cretaceous pole is in good agreement with those for Siberia, North China, and Inner Mongolia, suggesting that these continental blocks had already sutured together in the Early Cretaceous, which would further provide constraints on better understanding of the formation and evolution of the TMFB.