Palaeomagnetism and the age of the Cracow volcanic rocks (S Poland)

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Aug 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008geoji.174..475n&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Journal International, Volume 174, Issue 2, pp. 475-488.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Palaeomagnetism Applied To Tectonics, Continental Tectonics: Strike-Slip And Transform, Europe

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Permian rhyodacites, melaphyres and tuffs from the Cracow area (South Poland) were sampled for the palaeomagnetic and isotope studies. Single-grain U-Pb dating of most zircon grains separated from the rhyodacites gave mean age of magma emplacement of 294.2 +/- 2.1 Ma. Some zircons, however, displayed younger ages (268.7 +/- 3.4 Ma), probably related to the metasomatic alterations of these rocks. Two Permian components of magnetizations related to these processes were isolated and together with previously defined Late Carboniferous-Permian palaeomagnetic poles from South Poland were used for construction of the regional apparent polar wander path (APWP). The Early Permian segment of this APWP shows a certain departure from the coeval part of the Fennoscandian APWP due to anticlockwise rotations of studied rocks most probably caused by mid-Permian sinistral tectonic movements along reactivated prominent Variscan faults of Central Europe. This sense of tectonic mobility does not support the hypothesis about transformation from Pangea `B' to Pangea `A' along an intra-Pangea dextral megashear during the Permian. Older than previously assumed ages of the post-Variscan igneous rocks of Central Europe reduce overlap of Gondwana's and Laurussia's parts of the Early Permian Pangea `A'.

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