Physics – Geophysics
Scientific paper
Jul 2000
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000m%26ps...35..723p&link_type=abstract
Meteoritics & Planetary Science, vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 723-732 (2000).
Physics
Geophysics
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Scientific paper
A magnetic model is proposed for the Bosumtwi meteorite impact structure in Ghana, Africa. This relatively young (~1.07 Ma) structure with a diameter of ~10.5 km is exposed within early Proterozoic Birimian-Tarkwaian rocks. The central part of the structure is buried under post-impact lake sediments, and due to lack of drill cores, geophysics is the only way to reveal its internal structure. To study the structure below and beyond the lake, a high-resolution low altitude (~70 m) airborne geophysical survey across the structure was conducted, which included measurements of the total magnetic field, electromagnetic data, and gamma radiation. The magnetic data show a circumferential magnetic halo outside the lakeshore, ~12 km in diameter. The central-north part of the lake reveals a central negative magnetic anomaly with smaller positive side-anomalies N and S of it, which is typical for magnetized bodies at shallow latitudes. A few weaker negative magnetic anomalies exist in the eastern and western part of the lake. Together with the northern one they seem to encircle a central uplift. Our model shows that the magnetic anomaly of the structure is presumably produced by one or several relatively strongly remanently magnetized impact melt rock or melt-rich suevite bodies. Petrophysical measurements show a clear difference between the physical properties of pre-impact target rocks and impactites. Suevites have a higher magnetization and have low densities and high porosities compared to the target rocks. In suevites, the remanent magnetization dominates over induced magnetization (Koenigsberger ratio > 3). Preliminary palaeomagnetic results reveal that the normally magnetized remanence component in suevites was acquired during the Jaramillo normal polarity epoch. This interpretation is consistent with the modelling results that also require a normal polarity magnetization for the magnetic body beneath the lake. The reverse polarity remanence component, superimposed to the normal component, is probably a secondary remanence acquired during subsequent reverse polarity events.
Elo S.
Koeberl Christian
Pesonen Lauri J.
Plado J.
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