Paleomagnetic directions from mid-latitude sites in the southern hemisphere (Argentina): Contribution to time averaged field models

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Feb 2009

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Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, Volume 172, Issue 3-4, p. 199-209.

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Back-arc volcanism located to the east of the Andean Cordillera was sampled in the Argentina provinces of Mendoza and Neuquen for paleomagnetic time average field and paleosecular investigations. The activity ranges from 2 Ma to very recent time, with a large variety of products, from basalts to highly differentiated lavas. After removal of sites affected by lightning, those with α95 higher than 10°, and combining of nearby sites displaying close directions, we present new paleomagnetic results from 31 flows units belonging to two volcanic massifs: the Payun Matru and the Cerro Nevado. Previous and new K Ar age determinations constrain the volcanic activity of these massifs from 300 to 0 ka, and from 1.9 to 0.9 Ma, respectively. Most paleomagnetic samples have NRM intensities between about 1 and 20 A/m and depict progressive removal of magnetization components in a consistent fashion during stepwise AF or thermal demagnetization. Nineteen flows yielded a normal direction (declination = 354.8°, inclination = -53.0°, α95 = 6.8°) and 12 flows a reverse direction (declination = 181.0°, inclination = 52.3°, α95 = 5.9°). The combined data yielded a mean direction (declination = 357.3°, inclination = -52.8°, α95 = 4.6°), which is not statistically different from the axial dipole field (g10) expected at this latitude (36°S). The angular dispersion of virtual geomagnetic poles calculated from flows with normal directions (ASD = 16.5°) compares well with the observed value from global datasets for this site latitude, but flows with reverse directions display a surprisingly low dispersion (ASD = 12.5°). Since most reverse directions were sampled from flows ranging between 1.9 and 0.9 Ma, this can be interpreted as an interval of low paleomagnetic secular variation. Additional data, also with accurate time constraints, are obviously needed to better support this observation. Finally, no convincing evidence for a complex time average field significantly different from the axial dipole can be supported by this study for the last 2 Myr.

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