Magnetostratigraphic investigations of the Middle Triassic Badong Formation in South China

Details Magnetostratigraphic investigations of the Middle Triassic Badong Formation in South China Magnetostratigraphic investigations of the Middle Triassic Badong Formation in South China

Jul 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000geoji.142...74h&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Journal International, Volume 142, Issue 1, pp. 74-82.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Badong Formation, Magnetostratigraphy, South China, Triassic

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Magnetostratigraphic sampling of the Middle Triassic Badong Formation in South China was conducted at three sections. A dual-polarity characteristic remanent magnetization (ChRM) resolved from most samples by thermal demagnetization is shown to have been acquired prior to folding. The primary nature of the ChRM is corroborated by the discovery of the same magnetic polarity at equivalent stratigraphic levels in more than one section. The relative sample VGP (virtual geomagnetic pole) latitudes define nine magnetozones for the three major constituent members of the formation. Comparison with the Mid-Triassic magnetic polarity sequence observed from the western Tethyan region appears to indicate that the bulk of the Badong Formation is Anisian in age and that Ladinian sediments are largely missing. This agrees with palaeontological and stratigraphic evidence in the region and supports the view that Ladinian regression is a major event in the geological evolution of South China, which may signal the onset of amalgamation of the Yangtze Block (YB) with the North China Block (NCB).

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