Rock magnetic stratigraphy of a mafic layered sill: a key to the Karoo volcanics plumbing system

Maes, S M; Ferré, E E; Tikoff, B; Brown, P E; Marsh, Julian S

Title: Rock magnetic stratigraphy of a mafic layered sill: a key to the Karoo volcanics plumbing system
Creator: Maes, S M
Creator: Ferré, E E
Creator: Tikoff, B
Creator: Brown, P E
Creator: Marsh, Julian S
Date Issued: 2008
Date: 2008
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/144901
Identifier: vital:38389
Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2005.07.038
Description: The Insizwa sill is an 1 km-thick subhorizontal layered mafic intrusion and part of the Karoo Large Igneous Province in South Africa. This well-exposed intrusion consists of several superimposed petrologically and geochemically distinct units. Magnetic methods were used to study the intrusion in order to constrain the physical processes active in these types of bodies during crystallization. Rock magnetism studies indicate that within different petrologic units bulk susceptibility is controlled by primary magnetite (with minor pyrrhotite) and/or paramagnetic minerals (olivine, pyroxene). New magnetic data based on 659 specimens obtained from 3 vertical borehole cores, each spaced 5 km apart, confirm the prominent vertical zonation in low field magnetic susceptibility (Klf), degree of anisotropy (Pj) and orientation of the anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS) axes.
Format: 19 pages
Format: pdf
Language: English
Relation: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research
Relation: Marsh, Julian S. Karoo volcanic and intrusive rocks – Lesotho and Eastern Cape. ETH geological Excursion to South Africa 2013. Field Guide. January 2013. Department of Geology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.
Relation: Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research volume 172 number 1-2 75 92 2008
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