Paleomagnetic poles for the Carboniferous Brush Creek limestone and Buffalo siltstone from southwestern Pennsylvania

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Apr 1981

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Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, Volume 25, Issue 1, p. 113-118.

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We report partial results of a larger project being undertaken in the Appalachian Basin to determine the character of the geomagnetic field in the Carboniferous. The Brush Creek limestone, which contains abundant terrigenous matter, yields reliable results from three different sites, while the overlying Buffalo siltstone appears at one locality. AF demagnetization curves, IRM acquisition curves, thermomagnetic analysis, and optical reflection microscopy indicate that the remanence carriers are magnetites or titanomagnetites, which are probably primary in origin. Stepwise AF demagnetization reveals that the best demagnetizing fields are 15-20 and 20-30 mT for the limestone and siltstone units, respectively. A total of 93 specimens from 20 samples (oriented hand samples and field-drilled cores) yields a paleopole at S 36.1, W 55.7, with an alpha-95 of 4.2° and a k of 13.1 for the Brush Creek limestone. The Buffalo siltstone paleopole is located at S 27.4, W 57.0, with alpha-95 = 6.1° and k = 13.0 using 45 specimens from 31 oriented hand samples. These results agree fairly well with the mean reversed Carboniferous paleopole and Noltimier's coal pole, but are sufficiently different to raise the possibility of doing magnetostratigraphic correlations.

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