Emplacement process of Ferrar Dolerite sheets at Allan Hills (South Victoria Land, Antarctica) inferred from magnetic fabric

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Mar 2012

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2012geoji.188.1046a&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Journal International, Volume 188, Issue 3, pp. 1046-1060.

Physics

Magnetic Fabrics And Anisotropy, Fracture And Flow, Large Igneous Provinces, Physics Of Magma And Magma Bodies, Antarctica

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We analyse 10 representative intrusions from two sets of inclined diabase (Ferrar Dolerite) sheets exposed at Allan Hills (South Victoria Land, Antarctica), using petrographic and rock magnetic methods to determine microfabrics and infer magma flow directions. At least one diabase sample was collected at the margins of each intrusion. Magnetite and pyrrhotite contribute to magnetic fabrics of the samples. Thirty-six magnetic fabric directions, inferred from the mutual arrangement of either the magnetic lineation, or the magnetic foliation plane and local macroscopic flow indicators (e.g. horn-shaped apophyses and kinks) at the tips and margins of each intrusion reveal composite (i.e. both lateral and vertical) flow paths recorded along each intrusive segment. Petrographic textures and multiple flow directions inferred at sheet-segment tips reveal that 'passive' injection of magma via hydrofracturing produced the local shallow large igneous province plumbing as a sill-dominated intrusive complex very close to, or intersecting the palaeosurface. This contrasts with 'classic' arrays of either vertically or laterally injected blade-like dykes.

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