Physics
Scientific paper
Jun 1998
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Geophysical Journal International, Volume 133, Issue 3, pp. 519-528.
Physics
Scientific paper
A palaeomagnetic study of 115 samples (328 specimens) from 22 sites of the Mid- to Upper Cretaceous Bagh Group underlying the Deccan Traps in the Man valley (22° 20'N, 75° 5'E) of the Narmada Basin is reported. A characteristic magnetization of dominantly reverse polarity has been isolated from the entire rock succession, whose depositional age is constrained within the Cretaceous Normal Superchron. Only a few samples in the uppermost strata have yielded either normal or mixed polarity directions. The overall mean of reverse magnetization is Dm=144°, Im=47° (α95=2.8°, k=152, N=18 sites) with the corresponding S-pole position 28.7°S, 111.2°E (A95=3.1°) and a palaeolatitude of 28°S+/-3°. The characteristic remanence is carried dominantly by magnetite. Similar magnetizations of reverse polarity are also exhibited by Deccan basalt samples and a mafic dyke in the study area. This pole position falls near the Late Cretaceous segment of the Indian APWP and is concordant with poles reported from the Deccan basalt flows and dated DSDP cores (75-65 Ma) of the Indian Ocean. It is therefore concluded that the Bagh Group in the eastern part of the Narmada Basin has been pervasively remagnetized by the igneous activity of Deccan basalt effusion. This overprinted palaeomagnetic signature in the Bagh Group indicates a counter-clockwise rotation by 13°+/-3° and a latitudinal drift northwards by 3°+/-3° of the Indian subcontinent during Deccan volcanism.
Patil S. K.
Prasad J. N.
Rao R. K. D.
Saraf P. D.
Tripathi Satish C.
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