Physics
Scientific paper
Jan 1977
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Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, Volume 13, Issue 4, p. 305-314.
Physics
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Scientific paper
It has been frequently observed that the ferromagnetic minerals in volcanic rocks may undergo some physical/chemical changes when they are heated in a laboratory. For paleointensity determinations, it is therefore desirable to use the Thellier method, in which internal consistency of the data assures that such undesirable changes did not take place in a particular sample. The most serious drawback of this method is that it requires a considerable number of heatings and coolings and measurements of the remanent magnetization. Following a suggestion of Kono, a modified version of Thellier's technique was developed and applied to a historical lava flow of Hawaii and Oligocene rhyolites and welded tuffs of San Juan volcanic field, Colorado, U.S.A. Samples were heated only once to each temperature and cooled under a magnetic field applied perpendicular to the NRM directions. Results were compared to those obtained by the conventional Thelliers' technique. It was found that the modified method gives results as satisfactory as the original method. With the selection of appropriate samples, the modified method will cut down the time required for the experiment to almost half of what is required in the original method, without losing the merits of Thelliers' technique. Address: Natural Science Laboratory, Toyo University, Hakusan 5-28-20, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112, Japan.
Kono Masaru
Ueno Naoko
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