Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jul 1999
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999geoji.138..159b&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Journal International, Volume 138, Issue 1, pp. 159-178.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Domain Pattern Observations, Emplacement Temperature, Exchange/Magnetostatic Interactions, Ilmenite, Aematite, Microchemical Analysis, Self-Reversed Trm
Scientific paper
39 dacitic pumice and lithic samples from the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo were investigated through both magnetic and mineralogical means. As in a previous study, natural remanent magnetization (NRM) is found to be reversed for most of the samples, with respect to the direction of the actual geomagnetic field direction. A few samples, amongst them ancient lithics transported by pyroclastic flows, show scattered NRM directions. From thermal demagnetization of these particular samples it is concluded that their orientation changed after emplacement. The emplacement temperature is estimated to be more than 460 degC from thermal demagnetization of lithic samples. Two magnetic minerals with large grain sizes are observed under the optical microscope: titanomagnetite (TM) and haemo-ilmenite (hem-ilm). Microprobe analyses yield x~0.10 for TM and y~0.52 and y~0.54 for two hem-ilm phases, in agreement with the observed Curie temperatures (~480 degC for TM and ~250 degC for hem-ilm). The hem-ilm particles display chemical zonation, which seems to be correlated with a change of the domain structure: typically, a ferrimagnetic (FM) phase with slightly higher titanium content is observed in the central part whilst the crystal margin, which is weakly ferromagnetic (WF, due to spin-canted antiferromagnetism) is slightly poorer in titanium. Two different mechanisms for the origin and formation of the two observed phases are discussed: (1) chemical zonation of hem-ilm crystals due to a change in conditions in the magma chamber shortly before eruption; (2) similar to the microstructures observed from synthetic samples, this zonation in the large natural hem-ilm could be the result of migration of the WF phase towards the grain boundary during residence below the order-disorder transition temperature in the magmatic chamber. The room temperature hysteresis loop, which seems to be dominated by TM, provides multidomain (MD)-like parameters: J_rs/J_s=0.01 and H_cr/H_c=20. The large coercivity of remanence (15-40 mT), which is attributed to hem-ilm, may be intrinsic or due to interactions between WF and FM phases. The field dependence of the magnitude of the thermoremanent magnetization (TRM) is not linear: it increases first, reaches a maximum (negative) value for an applied field H close to 0.5 mT, then decreases steadily. By extrapolation, it is estimated that the TRM should be zero for a field of about 12 mT and become positive beyond. This total TRM is in fact the sum of several components. AF demagnetization of TRMs acquired in different fields shows the presence of at least three components: a self-reversed (SR) component that contains both hard and moderately hard components and a soft normal component. Independently of the value of H, the median destructive field of the SR component is of the order of 70 mT, which suggests that the FM phase is not entirely locked by exchange interaction with the WF phase and can experience noticeable wall movements. However, some 20 per cent of the SR TRM component remains after AF treatment of 220 mT. Although we believe that exchange interaction plays a key role in the process of SR TRM acquisition, torque curves in the high field of samples both with and without SR TRM do not show clear evidence for unidirectional anisotropy. Similarly, we do not observe any significant shift of major hysteresis loops or non-vanishing hysteresis losses, two characteristics generally considered as indicative of exchange anisotropy and usually observed for synthetic single-domain/pseudo-single-domain (SD/PSD) hem-ilm. Indeed, in addition to the exchange interaction the magnetostatic coupling must play some role here because of the large size of the hem-ilm grains.
Bina Matteo
Fehr Th. K.
Goguitchaichvili A. T.
Hoffmann Viktor
Keller Rainer
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