Magnetic fabric and strain in Miocene volcanics in the southern margin of the Bükk Mountains, Hungary |
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| Authors: | R bert Bord s |
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| Institution: | Eötvös Loránd Geophysical Institute of Hungary, Columbus u. 17/23, 1145, Budapest, Hungary |
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| Abstract: | The magnetic anisotropy of two Miocene volcanic horizons south of the Bükk Mountains, northeast Hungary, was investigated (28 geographically distributed sites, over 400 samples). The horizons contain rocks from ignimbrites to porous tuffs. Microscopic and rock magnetic investigations showed that the main carrier of anisotropy is multidomain maghemite with varying composition. The complex magnetic fabric was separated into deformational and flow fabric in the upper horizon. This was carried out by monitoring the distribution of minimum susceptibility directions supposed to be elongated towards intermediates as a response to compressional strain. Jelínek's tensor statistics were used in the computations. Filtering out the effects of volcanic flow and compaction, north-south striking horizontal compressional strain was determined for the upper horizon in the geographic system. Owing to the lack of elongated distribution of minima, the characteristic intermediate susceptibility directions were taken as markers of strain directions in the lower horizon (WNW-ESE and NNE-SSW in the geographic system). The strain directions showed correlation with compressional stress orientations observed by microtectonics, thus a homogeneous stress-strain field was supposed within the area investigated. The tectonic component of the strain can be determined by taking the respective paleomagnetic declination rotations as the rotational components of the deformation. |
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