Post-emplacement tilting of lava flows inferred from magnetic fabric study: the example of Oligocene lavas in the Jeanne d’Arc Peninsula (Kerguelen Islands) |
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| Authors: | B Henry G Plenier P Camps |
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| Institution: | a Géomagnétisme et Paléomagnétisme, IPGP and CNRS, 4 avenue de Neptune, 94107, Saint-Maur cedex, France;b Laboratoire de Géophysique, Tectonique et Sédimentologie, ISTEEM, University Montpellier II and CNRS, case 060, 34095, Montpellier cedex 5, France;c Laboratoire de Tectonophysique, University Montpellier II and CNRS, case 049, 34095, Montpellier cedex 5, France |
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| Abstract: | Statistical analysis of the magnetic fabric of samples from several successive lava flows emplaced under similar conditions can allow determination of the mean flow direction when magnetic fabric data from individual flows do not lead to reliable results. A difference between the obtained flow direction and the present dip direction indicates that the flows were tilted after emplacement. For 2 successive series of flows on the Jeanne d’Arc Peninsula presently NNW dipping, this method shows lava emplacement along a SSW–NNE direction. This indicates a gentle tilting acquired during a period of weak deformation in the whole archipelago. Additionally, the magnetic fabric data allow the reconstruction of the different conditions of emplacement of these two series of lava flows and of formation of the local thick conglomerate interbedded between these series. |
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| Keywords: | lava flows magnetic susceptibility anisotropy Kerguelen Archipelago |
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