A Middle-Triassic paleomagnetic pole for the Eurasian plate from Heming (France)

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Apr 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992georl..19..777t&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 19, no. 8, April 24, 1992, p. 777-780. Research supported by G.I.S. Tethys.

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Asia, Europe, Magnetic Poles, Mesozoic Era, Paleomagnetism, Plates (Tectonics), France, Limestone, Polar Wandering (Geology)

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The paleomagnetic study of Middle Triassic limestones (91 cores, 160 samples) from a 40-m thick section in Heming (France) yields a paleomagnetic pole for stable Europe at lat = 53.5 deg N, lon = 140.8 deg E, d(p) = 2.3 deg, d(m) = 3.9 deg. This pole fills an important gap of the apparent polar wander path of the Eurasian plate. The comparison of this pole with available data shows a standstill of the Eurasian plate from the Late Paleozoic to the Middle Triassic, followed by a rapid drift until the Lower Jurassic. The beginning of the rapid drift is contemporaneous with the initiation of main rifting processes in the Tethyan Oceans.

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