Physics
Scientific paper
Aug 1998
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998pepi..108..275r&link_type=abstract
Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, Volume 108, Issue 4, p. 275-290.
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Scientific paper
The Florianópolis (FL) basaltic dikes are well exposed on Santa Catarina Island, close to the present southeastern border of the Paraná Magmatic Province in Southern Brazil, and their intrusion was related to the tectonic and magmatic evolution of rifting in the southern Atlantic. The dikes are vertical or subvertical, and cut the crystalline basement rocks, mainly Late Proterozoic granites. Most of the dikes exhibit NE trends, corresponding to structural trends of the crystalline basement. A few NW-trending dikes can also be observed, occasionally crosscutting the NE dikes. Samples from 73 dikes were collected for paleomagnetic work, and subjected to both alternating field and thermal demagnetization. Characteristic magnetizations of normal and reversed polarities interpreted as original thermoremanences are carried by Ti-poor magnetites showing remanent coercive forces in the range 18-45 mT. The corresponding paleomagnetic pole (FL pole) is located at 3.3°E, 89.1°S (N=65; α95=2.6° k=47). Samples for 40Ar/39Ar dating were collected at the same paleomagnetic sites. Plagioclase samples from nine dikes were analyzed by stepwise heating; the apparent age spectra are strongly discordant due to excess 40Ar contamination, but five samples yielded plateau ages ranging from 119.0+/-0.9 Ma to 128.3+/-0.5 Ma. One additional sample yielded an isochron age of 121.5+/-0.5 Ma. The inferred ages apparently define two modes at ~119-122 Ma and ~126-128 Ma, although the data set is probably insufficient to determine whether dike intrusion was continuous or episodic. The ages of 128-119 Ma are coeval with the final stages of the rifting at this latitude, suggesting that the emplacement of the FL dikes is related to extension of the continental crust just prior to the formation of oceanic crust. By comparing the FL pole with the existing paleomagnetic poles for the NW Ponta Grossa dike swarm (mainly 130.5 Ma) to the north, the Paraná volcanics (mainly 133-132 Ma), and the Central Alkaline Province (127-130 Ma) on the western side of the Paraná Province it is concluded that the differences in pole positions reflect plate displacements, and therefore the FL pole is probably dominated by the dikes with ages younger than 127 Ma.
Bartolomeu Raposo Maria Irene
Ernesto Marcia
Renne Paul R.
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