Mineralogy and magnetism of Fe-Cr spinel series minerals from podiform chromitites and dunites from Tąpadła (Sudetic ophiolite, SW Poland) and their relationship to palaeomagnetic results of the dunites

Details Mineralogy and magnetism of Fe-Cr spinel series minerals from podiform chromitites and dunites from Tąpadła (Sudetic ophiolite, SW Poland) and their relationship to palaeomagnetic results of the dunites Mineralogy and magnetism of Fe-Cr spinel series minerals from podiform chromitites and dunites from Tąpadła (Sudetic ophiolite, SW Poland) and their relationship to palaeomagnetic results of the dunites

Dec 2008

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Geophysical Journal International, Volume 175, Issue 5, pp. 885-900.

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Magnetic Mineralogy And Petrology, Palaeomagnetism Applied To Geologic Processes, Remagnetization, Rock And Mineral Magnetism

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This paper presents the mineralogy and magnetic properties of two varieties of chromitite, sampled in the same exposure of a serpentinite massif regarded to be a fragment of the Sudetic ophiolite. The varieties differ mineralogically and magnetically. One of them, labelled TaA and altered to a low degree according to scanning electron microscope (SEM) and microprobe results, comprises an unaltered Al-Cr spinel core, some secondary chromite and less abundant Cr-magnetite. It has a high magnetic susceptibility and natural remanence (NRM), and its dominating magnetic phase is ferrichromite with Tb/Tc of about 530 °C occurring in grains in the single domain (SD) + pseudo-single domains (PSDs) and superparamagnetic (SP) states. The second variety, labelled TaB, is highly altered and comprises, apart from Al spinel, two kinds of secondary chromites that do not differ much from the primary Al spinel and no Cr-magnetites. This chromitite variety does not reveal one well defined Tb/Tc, but a series ranging between 200 and 450 °C, their grain sizes correspond to the SD+SP domain states. The same pattern was observed in chromitite TaA after annealing in air at a temperature of 700 °C. Dunites associated with the chromitites contain, apart from magnetite, chromite grains. The majority of specimens reveal magnetic characteristics similar to the TaA-like variety, but in some specimens TaB-like characteristics were also observed. A standard palaeomagnetic study performed earlier on the dunites showed that their NRM has three components-Lower Devonian carried by magnetite, Permian and Tertiary-Recent. The results presented here lead us to conclude that the latter two are carried by ferrichromites similar to those found in the TaA and TaB chromitites.

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